Well, it's the day before Christmas and all through the house...it's pretty quiet to be honest. The presents are all wrapped, the food is lurking in the fridge waiting for the magic fairies to cook it and I'm busy pondering illustrations, as usual. I've been working all week on trying to get Knight Time Creations out there to the masses, it's not easy. It takes a lot of typing and surfing etc but I think I'm making progress. Certainly hope so.
Working on a new piece of art at the moment, trying to break the mold...well maybe not THE mold, whatever that might be, but my mold. I'm trying to move away from my usual style and do something different, whether or not I will be successful remains to be seen but it is taking me a lot longer than my usual art work. It's much more intricate and detailed and I think I'm going to colour it using acrylics, which again is unusual for me. I tend to work primarily with digital colour on handdrawn pen and ink images. I like the finished result, and so do a lot of other people which is gratifying, but you know how it is. Dozens of people tell you what you're doing is great and you take it with a pinch of salt, one person tells you you don't quite float their boat and you instantly have to alter everything you're doing and totally shake yourself up.
Maybe some people would take critiques with a pinch of salt and just bask in the praise, but I don't want to bask, I want to adapt, evolve, change, create. I want to broaden my repetoire and show people what else I can do because quite frankly I don't want another person out there to turn round and say, no offense intended, that my style isn't right. Whatever my style IS, it appears on many occasions to just not be right for a lot of people. I'm not going to sit back and accuse them of not understanding me or of having no taste or anything like that, no, I'm going to blame me, not them. I'm going to try and change and adapt and make my style into something else. Not as a replacement to my usual work, but an addition. I want current and future clients to realise that just because my previous work might not be in the style they had in mind, that doesn't mean I can't create something new. I relish a challenge and I'm really excited to see how my new pieces are going to turn out.
Merry Christmas by the way!
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