Day One :
drawing from life.
show, tell, and create
It’s easy to become so focused on the act of making art that the act itself becomes the art – art for art sake as the saying goes. But for visual communication the visual is only the first word, communication is the second. Perhaps it’s because learning to make art is straight forward, we put in our 10,000 hours of critical study and we’re good to go.
But creativity seems more ephemeral. Harder to identify, and to grasp a hold of. But what if the art of coming up with ideas is perfected the same way as making art? Through critical study, and practice. Achieved by a straight forward process of learning to make ideas from what we see, feel, and experience in our everyday living.
The video below is an example of this creative process. (5 minutes 25 sec)
critical practice
Critical study is a term you may be familiar with from your academic studies. A variation on that concept which, from the perspective of a practicing professional is perhaps more relevant, is critical practice.
Becoming familiar with the concept of critical practice – and putting it directly into … practice, is in my experience what is the defining characteristic of transforming the dream of making art – into a reality.
The video below discusses an example of critical practice. (3 minutes)
