Post #298558 by Sneakytiki on Thu, Apr 12, 2007 1:39 AM

I've totally done the "thumbnail sketches" after the work was done as well, they ask a fake question, get a fake answer.

I'll usually start a painting with an idea but no drawings, if I do draw it's very simple 30 sec's maybe. Then the painting always changes completely from what the drawing was supposed to be too. People are always asking, what were u trying to express? What's your statement? The damn artwork is the statement, if I wanted to state something I'd say it. The subconscious is usually making a meaning for u while you work, sometimes you dunno what it means for a while but you get it all eventually. But that's MY statement, I don't want everyone else to get the exact same statement, otherwise I'd be a writer.

Nothing wrong with doing sketches 'til u hit on a "clever" idea or make a "statement" but it makes just as much sense to work automatically, this ties into why I don't want to dissect the meaning of everything in my work. Art teaches you things science/words can't. Subconscious symbols...