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Mind comic: Critical mass

15th April 2011

Areas: comics viewpoint

It is wise to get the opinions of others on your artwork, but when you start to choose their opinions over yours the critical mass of their opinions begins to form the artwork not you.

For me I noticed this a few years ago where I was literally paralysed from creating anything. With each idea I would judge it against the comments of others and the work of my favourite artists. This in turn meant that I hardly followed any ideas through because I felt the idea would never be as good as another artist’s work or that others would ridicule it as foolish. For me the solution was to create a place where criticism was no longer relevant by simply following an idea for the fun of it. Through this approach I have found enormous creativity and more importantly who I am as an artist. You may think experimenting with ideas for the fun of it is not a practical business model, but let me explain: I would argue that the most valuable asset of any artist’s work is the artist himself or herself. Your unique character is the key factor that decides the path of each creation not your technique, materials or style. Therefore to know who you are as an artist and what you can create will make you a product that is easier to sell to potential clients and art directors. With each idea you play with you will find new pathways to communicate in both your commercial and personal work, but more importantly you will get to know and appreciate who you are as an artist. . © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

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THRIVE: the VENT mandala

8th April 2011

Areas: making of paintings

Recently I’ve been busy with the VENT collective, an arts focused collective that I helped to set up in 2008.

We’ve just finished our most recent project ‘THRIVE: the VENT mandala’, which blended the disciplines of painting, animation, sculpture and performance into a single presentation. The presentation incorporated a collaborative artwork between the four members of the collective which was then cut up and animated in the gallery space using stop motion photography.

Below I have included a few photos from the opening and a time lapse video of the creation of the project.

The exhibition opened last night (Thursday 7th April 2011) at the Platform Arts gallery and continues until Saturday 16th April.

‘THRIVE: the VENT mandala’ opening night, Platform Arts gallery. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Awesome’, I particularly liked this segment I created. I love the way that by cutting the artwork a new picture appears.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Ladies of the sea’, I loved creating this piece as I was simply making some blue shapes which then turned into hair, which in turn became a sea. . © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘THRIVE: the VENT mandala’ time lapse video of the whole project from start to finish, used in the exhibition.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

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Mind sketches comic

1st April 2011

Areas: comics sketches

This one came as more of a story in which a medieval King leads his troops through battle.

All of his troops are children who don’t have the strength to fight yet they keep on winning and enjoy the adventure. It is the King that enables them to win not the age or experience of the troops.

"The King & I", ink on paper.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

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Mind sketches

1st April 2011

Areas: sketches

I’ve been trying to be a Christian for a few of years now. I say trying, as I don’t really know what I’m doing in comparison to other Christians who seem to have it all together.

That aside I’ve found that when I’m praying an image or a series of sequential images come into my mind. I don’t always know what they mean but the majority of them look visually awesome. So I’ve started to draw them with no reason other than I think they’d make a good image or comic.

I’ve included one below that I’ve been messing around with this week.

"Faithful rider" sketches, ink on paper. I liked the white silhouette of the rider and horse and decided to add in a red strip of colour. In the second sketch I wondered what it would look like if his eyes were burning.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved"Faithful Rider" final image, ink on paper. I decided that the burning eyes and red sash worked well as dash of colour.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

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