Art journaling

  • do artists blog? i’m v ignorant here
    • tech ppl talking thru their process is normal
    • by ‘artists’ i’m thinking primarily of illustrators (drawing, painting, that sort of thing)
  • is there an equivalent in art
  • purpose is not to teach but to record and reflect on a process
  • i feel that i am Not Good Enough to write ‘authoritatively’ or that it’s worth reading
    • but the point isn’t to teach others, so
  • i always have some thoughts about a work, and occasionally those thoughts are substantial enough to be recorded?
  • e.g. first go at coloured markers, drawing eula — made soooo many mistakes, feel too embarrassed to share finished image. but it doesn’t feel…like an impossible challenge to fix or anything. i know what mistakes i made and look forward to trying again
  • e.g. first block printing thing
    • cut too deep probably
    • didn’t make fine lines
    • ink was too watery
    • brayer didn’t rotate
    • lmao a disaster! but fun to record and then later reflect on when i’ve improved
  • don’t necessarily want to put this kind of info on the art post itself; how to separate out critical commentary
    • e.g. post a drawing i did, i don’t want to put in that description all the things i think i did wrong so that everyone who sees the drawing also sees that in the description
    • self-deprecation is annoying
    • but: how to reflect on ~mistakes~ in a way that is productive (‘here is what i think i did wrong now that i’m done, and how i’d do it differently next time’) rather than self-deprecating for the sake of it
    • assumed audience for this is other artists maybe? people interested in technical details of a thing, like whether a line i drew is the wrong weight. kind of like art critique or something? (i have never done art critique)
    • should this be recorded publicly at all? is this better left private? how diary-ish do i want this to be. (likely something to figure out through trial & error)