A Flurry of Creative Output
The push to complete the last illustrations for the new edition of The Messenger From Myris Dar.
I felt myself sink into this creative recrudescence …
Yet now that I am in the midst of it, I am torn. It is both daunting, and exhilarating.
My inspiration appears to be in overdrive. I have experienced this many times, a feverish plunge into maximum creative output, where you can’t put the work away, can’t stop thinking about it, can’t stop re-working it. In someways this intensity is a good thing––a lot gets accomplished in a short period of time.
But I have been an artist for a long time, and I know that this manic creative output has consequences.
Normally, my creative life moves at a gentle, yet persistent pace, where I move from task to task––whether on creative projects, or the business of running the studio––with a deeper calm and a sense of purpose. Commissions, collection releases and marketing/admin are accomplished in quieter less prolonged bursts of creative energy. It is akin to dipping in and out of the currents of inspiration, rather than a full immersion.
I have found this slower pace sustainable and gratifying in its joyful simmer of manifestation.
Then, when one of these mega creative explosions hit, it will take me to the top of the proverbial artistic mountain peak, in a glorious, fulfilling state of being. Yet once spent, recovering from that massive output can take a long time, with many days spent doing relatively nothing.
As I work on the last illustrations that are required to complete the second edition of Book One, The Messenger From Myris Dar, I find myself in that familiar territory.
Accompanying this artistic flurry is also a persistent desire to rework previous illustrations that I had thought were finished. Fresh ideas come in rapid succession, and I see ways of making drawings better, or redoing them completely.
The world building engine is in high gear!
… At least at the moment.
Find out more about my work.
Because of the divergent nature of my two practices and the difference in their respective audiences, I have created separate online spaces for each. Visit the Fine Art site to see my bronze sculpture and paintings, and my fantasy books website for more information about my illustrated novel series.
