Seeing Reality Again...(for the first time)

God takes pleasure in his creations.

Sometimes we, yes. even us so-called Christians, wallowing in a world of cynicism, tend to forget that what God created was, and ultimately IS, good. In fact, He sat back after a long hard week of work, and for the only time in history, rested and grinned. "It is good."

"It is good."

As an artist, sometimes I tend to use that phrase (is that okay God? Just checking), after a long, hard week of work on a painting or drawing. It's those times, late at night, when after a brain-frying day of trying to get something to work, trying to get the right composition on a painting or the right idea for a world, it hits you, something clicks. Then you lean back, grin, and say, "It is good."

It's about seeing.

But a lot of us don't actually SEE anything. Not really. Everything is taken as granted with a hint, or more than a hint, of cynicism. Fantasy draws us in because we're bored. Why? We're not really seeing. We've been given creativity, there's no doubt about that. And I'm not arguing against fantasy, I encourage it. But my point of this is not really about delving into fantasy, but about really seeing this creative fantasy world we live in and lifting that veil of cynicism so one can appreciate, no...be in AWE of the Epic we live in, the grand adventure that is around every corner if you can really SEE.

It's about really, honestly seeing.

Now, that might seem a bit much for some of you, or to those cynics, it might seem to incredibly, unabashedly too...happy. To that, I would say...Why not? Albeit, this isn't about that though.

As an artist, I have to see things in a different perspective. I don't see things as most people do. I don't honestly, truely see something until I've drawn it. That might sound extreme, but it's the truth. And that's what gives me a hope to cure boredom and cynicism should it arise, the fact that, honestly, I have really only seen a FRACTION, less than 0.001% of this world. I mean, REALLY SEEING.

That excites me. That gives me hope. "It is good." Yes, it is. Don't you think the One who said that wants us to see?

Life's a circle, open your eyes.

SEEING IS BELIEVING.

-TheFable

Retrospective!

Art happens in circles.

The digital art of the 90's, for the most part leaned toward smooth, electronically induced pieces, knit with webbings of computer unreality. But today, as technology advanced, subject matter is increasingly becoming retrospective. So many of the digital art pieces these days are harkening by to classical styles and subjects. Or classical styles and modern/fantasy subjects. Why? There's a number of reasons, ranging from the lack of technology in the 90's, to a different movement.

But that's the mystery of it, isn't it?

I’m not complaining, but I’m not rejoicing either. I’m just looking at this from an "outside" perspective as an artist that’s planning on entering a field of study where I hope to combine new technology with old-world values and vision (but being ultimately progressive at the same time).

Unfortunately, you got neither a brilliant revelation/epiphany, or an interesting tidbit, but simply Yet Another Nick Thought (Y.A.N.T. sounds like Rant, huh? That's the idea, folks).

-TheFable

Fruits

"By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad fruit cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus by their fruit you will recognize them." -Jesus Christ

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To the shock-artists, and the neoclassicists, the modernists, and the digitalists; to the crafty-people, the graffiti bombers, the muralists, and the Impressionists; to the house painters, the oil painters, the portrait artists, and the caricaturists. To the sketch-artists, the professionals, the non-professionals and the Baroque.

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If your artwork defines you, how are you presenting yourself to the world?

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To the animators and contemporary, to the cartoonists and the fantasy, to the Surrealists and the Anime and the landscape artists; to the conceptual designers, the set designers, and the etch artists, to the futurists, the face-painters, the graphic artists, and the really graphic artists; to the drafters, to the Pointillists and the Minimalists, to the Art Deco, the Post-Impressionists and the Dadaists;

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This is your mark on the world. Mark it well.

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To the Expressionists, the Op artists and the Pop artists, the modern abstractionists, and the cave drawers:

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What you produce reflects what you are.
Make a mark. Show yourself strong.

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I’m not trying to preach at you, and this isn’t about religion. Art is above that. This is about what you do as an artist.