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Wilde

“There is a way,” answered the Tree; “but it is so terrible that I dare not tell it to you.”

“Tell it to me,” said the Nightingale, “I am not afraid.”

“If you want a red rose,” said the Tree, “you must build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with your own heart’s-blood. You must sing to me with your breast against a thorn. All night long you must sing to me, and the thorn must pierce your heart, and your life-blood must flow into my veins, and become mine.”

(Source: lanuitblanche.wordpress.com)

There’s no one perfect state or process to deliver an idea or execute a concept.

Only being able to create while sad or upset. Or happy. Or only during the day or night. Only being able to work in a tidy or chaotic studio. Only when it comes easy and inspired, only when it’s a grind. Only when at my absolute best, most healthy, or most wild.

The truth is, we don’t really need any of these states to make our work.

Each moment of making is different. There’s no one perfect state or process to deliver an idea or execute a concept.

We as creatives are multifaceted, dynamic people. It’s just how we roll. So the next time something is not going how I think it should, I’m just going to try to accept that as my process for the day (not for life). I will do, and make do. And go with it.

That’s my Creative Call to Action for you:
Accept that your process is in process.

Accept that you may have multiple ways of getting to the same place. And enjoy the ride.

Are you attached to a certain process or state of mind for creating your work? Do you hold certain beliefs about when you can create and how it should feel?

(Source: scoutiegirl.com)

An original image will become a prized possession.

In fact, I feel illustrators have a much better opportunity to be successful in the future than designers. Why? As technology continues to improve designers will have fewer opportunities to do what they do best, whereas illustrators can offer visual solutions in any media for any product or service, designers are limited to hiring those services and with shrinking markets and budgets the illustrator will benefit and grow. Illustrators can work for anybody, their client list is endless; their ability to create original imagery puts them at an advantage because technology can never replace the ability to make interesting marks on paper or dream up unusual imagery. Plus with an ever increasing technology-driven environment where everything is crisp and picture-perfect there will be a growing desire for the handmade which will be a boon for those in the commercial world as well as for the gallery stars. Unique imagery will garner much more respect than it does today as the populace realizes that very few of them can draw—while everyone can take a reasonable picture today, very few can draw one. While more people think they can design a flyer, an ad, an invitation using today’s technology, more will acknowledge that they cannot nor will not draw or paint. The minority will rule. Price will be no object. An original image will become a prized possession.

I have no idea what designers will be doing ten years from now but I do know that illustrators have an edge. Where one time I would advise students coming out of school to be sure to have the skills of both a designer and an illustrator I have changed my view. While I think in the short-term knowledge of both is beneficial, the future is in illustration, not design. In the end everyone will become their own designer and with that news illustrators will have gained innumerable clients, and commissions.

I have gone through periods of consternation about the future of illustration and I have often concluded that the future was not too bright with the trend towards free media and content, the shrinking size of reproduction with the onset of tablets which leads to less revenue and lower budgets but in reflection I feel that the future has never been brighter.

3x3, THE MAGAZINE OF CONTEMPORARY ILLUSTRATION

Scales & Plumage

Digital dress-up! Today my mind is in Amazon jungle. Obviously this is only a pale shade of McQueen, whom I adore to pieces. Have you seen the shipwreck dress and the dress made out of real fresh flowers?

I was originally wearing a white dress with gemstone green Freshlook colored contact lens. Thank you to Hairport Salon (Presidents Ave., BF Homes, Parañaque) for my curly locks!