Digital Drawing as a Process in Fine Art

This is going to be mainly self reflective, upon my own practice. I want to acknowledge the importance of digital drawing in my work.

In the last few years I have found that while I am drawing or printing I visualise so much movement within my own mark making, it has made sense to pursue that. I’ve experimented with film and combining my animation with stock footage (my Paradise Potted piece, for example) and wish to continue that sort of medley of techniques.

My work ‘GIF-ts for Lovers’ (note to self; do blog posts with photos) was a non-filmic way of me combining print (Lino cuts) with digital drawn animation. Looking back on it, I can see how all previous ”finished” pieces had been building towards it, from subject matter to technique.

I think a way of moving forward would be to combine elements of older pieces, such as projection of digital drawn animation, print, postcards (found objects) and bringing them together with my ideas.

A small animated test I produced inspired by the mark making in my ‘GIF-ts for Lovers’ Lino cuts:

This year I am now very privileged to have a lot of technology at my disposal, I have contradictory desires for wanting to create imagery with my Lino cuts to creating fluid digital drawn pieces (animated or not animated). I would say the pull of Lino is the idea of carving something out physically, something tactile, it really grounds my practice.

I don’t want to float into professional animation so I think installation style work is best for my, combining tactile work with digital.