I have been beginning to feel that maybe my college professors were on to something. Well, maybe even my high school teachers if we really want to go that far back. Hmm!! Well I guess I have been too stubborn to think that by just jumping into things, I can still accomplish what I set out to do. For instance, come up with this really great and wonderful design that everyone in the entire world just has to have. Something that one person buys today, will go and tell all of their friends tomorrow they just have to have it.
But that lies the problem!!!
I am the type of artist who does not always follow the rules. Or the one's that can keep you from going totally out of your mind. I like to jump in, both feet sopping wet just because I have a thought in my mind. You know it's always a great idea, swirling around in the vortex of many thoughts, just trying to get out.
Yah, ideas are great!
They get you all excited and tingly!! Like a school kid playing on the playground.
That's until you start creating them. Well, at least for me anyway. Now don't get me wrong, I am a creative thinker. I have many years of experience, talking about 30 years of experience to be exact. But it still doesn't take away from the fact you have to work through those ideas. What lies in your head, does not always come off well on paper, or for my case most of the time my camera or computer. This can all lead to hours wasted, when all that needed to be done was doing a little brainstorming first.
College was tough years for me. I tried hard to define my place among the artistic. Many classes taken, many mediums studied. But one thing that seemed to be the unifying plot, was thumb-nails. Yah, working through your ideas on paper. Whether you draw them out or you write a sentence visually allowed you to see what your mind is conjuring up. And let me tell you, there are a pluthera of ideas running rampid in my mind. Some days it doesn't seem to stop!!
So after all these years, being taught by countless teachers and profs, maybe they were right after all. Ok, you can insert "I told you so" at this point. You know I was never one to admit when I was wrong. I mean come on, how could drawing small little representations of what my mind was playing behind my eyes actually free you of any questions you have about that one idea? Something to think about I guess. But also something to take advantage of.
Just wish I knew then, what I know now......
