Most of my experiences creating digital art have been non-compelling for me. What I mean by that is that the pieces do not drive me or call to me to open them up the next day and work on them more, unlike most of my pencil work.
My pencil drawings, and even things I’ve done in pastel, have a tendency to compel me to work on them. I walk past them and see something that needs doing and I have to stop and do it. I have attributed it to the fact that it is because they sit out where I can see them and so they are more readily in my mind. They are not “out of sight, out of mind”, where the digital art tends to be.
Interestingly, I seem to be having the same experience with the digital sculpting as my traditional work. It’s not as easy to just stop and work on it. I may be in another program or the computer may not be on. So it takes longer to get back to it to work on it. But I am more compelled to do it.
I consider this to be a great thing. Not that it takes longer to get back to the piece. It’s great that I am finding myself thinking about something I’m working on digitally, even when I’m not actually working on it. That just tells me that most of the digital pieces I had been doing just didn’t excite me or interest me as much. And in most cases they weren’t of the same quality.
I am just really getting started with the digital sculpting and I am finding it a lot of fun. I am having the same response to it that I often do to a piece of manual art as I’m working on it. At times I will be amazed that it is work I have created. When that is my response then I know I’m on the right path.That’s when I get enthused and excited and compelled to do more, make it better, take it farther.
This is so cool.