BREAKTHROUGH. It always, always comes from changing perspective. Two days ago I picked up a paint brush. I made the first brushstroke even though that ancient voice echoed in my mind saying, "You don't know how to do this". Then I remembered my dad.
Every night before bed, he would ask me to draw a line on the chalkboard that hung on my childhood wall. Any line. Straight, short, long, squigly, anything. I would draw one single line. Every night, he would come in and continue the line until he finished a whole drawing. Sometimes they were silly, sometimes cute, sometimes sweet...but he always finished it.
The lesson I learned is this: Just start. Everything can be made into something beautiful. It doesn't have to start out as something great to become something great. And so I take that lesson into my art. I begin. I don't worry about whether that first brushstroke is good, because "good" is a lie that keeps people striving for mediocre. I strive to make work, regardless of how someone else will categorize it.
This image is a breakthrough for me. It is everything that I love about imagery and everything I didn't realize I was missing in my art. I made a 21 minute video to go along with it, documenting the whole process of creating it.
youtu.be/lYmZ8A3kiRk 