From here.

A move back to the quick scratchy stuff ...

... through a city.

Is this finished? Who knows... I may come back to it over the next few days.

Haven't been posting a lot lately. I lost my voice, plus this has taken me a little while.

A walk ...

Haters be sayin' I can't lay down a cityscape.

Haters are probably right ... but we'll see how it goes.

So anyway, it's March now and this is my 22 post for 2011. Not too bad considering I only posted 30 times in all the previous years combined. But this journey is a funny thing. The more I study, the more I draw, the more I attempt to create something I'm truly happy with, the further from my goal I feel. Never before have I realised just how limited my ability and knowledge of illustration is. But I guess, until you do something, you never really know how bad you are.

How many times have you looked at a piece of art and thought to yourself "What's so special about that? I could have done it". I have this thoughtall the time, however the now obvious difference between myself and the artist is this; as much as I could have produced the exact same thing - I didn't.

Art and design is about time as much as it is about ability.

There are only a limited number of hours in everyday. And how you choose to spend these hours will define you. Bringing this back to my drawings and what I do, I've realised there are many roads in art, but unless I want to become a 'master of none' I can only travel a few.

So what will these be? Do I pick up the pencil more often, should I throw some paint around a canvas? Should I attempt some screen printing? Do I keep doing these quick Photoshop paintings or should I stop trying to punch images out as fast as possible and begin to focus more on the details? Should I venture into more vector art like Timba Smits and like him, combine illustration with design? Or try my hand at making type beautiful, like Jessica Hische?

In the end I guess picking a medium and method is a journey of discovery. 

I just wish our time on the journey didn't have to be so short.