i have a doodle, a very worked on doodle that i spent 10 years doing
over and over changing mediums, and parameters, did them in
technical pen, waterbased markers, fountain pens, ink brushes,
on matte mylar(drafting film), shiny marker paper, poster board,
kind or patterns and they have the mathmatical properties of
fractals, but are done either in a line drawing style or colored
in, anyway i loved doing them, starting a new one or going deeper
into one, especially with fountain pens because you can change the
width of the line so beautifully, and you still have a hard
point, so i wanted to create them in 3d for a long time(last 10
years), and finally did by drawing one on a 3d simple shape, and
carving it out, deliberating on the positive and negatives, and
which side of the line to carve on, i guess because i thought so
much about how i was going to do it someday, and since i was
carving alot, i tried one and it came out so good that i think it
ranks with best designs that i have ever seen- those being ancient
chinese bronze surface embellishment(western chou), in the MET, nyc
by the way, and many art nouveau efforts like sullivan, gaudi,
horta, guimard, etc, etc- and it happened all because i did it, of
course 25 years of sweatshop/deadline carving didn’t hurt
either,if you’re not competent enough to create your idea in
metal, then do it in clay, modeling clay, or anything, paper is
good, soapstone, wax,soft woods,etc,etc(i work alot in wood),
carving wax is total fun, cause you can melt it, carve it, use hot
tools, so is clay, let’s face it, if you are going to make
something, you have to move your hands with some material, and look
at it or feel it, explore,get the blood going, whatever, i find
that whenever i am not actually carving and creating , things just
are not going right as they could, time chewed up by chores like
buisness, planning, buying, a 9-5er,family stuff and , but
lastly, if you are young, or old,an apprenticeship might be a
good route to go, if you can find it and are willing to do the
necessary steps, oh yea, very important; get interested in fields
of art history, dp