DRAWING PLANS

I've come in massive long bit fat huge gigantic circle.

What I've found out:

Obsession can either be

1) pathological, and a constraint

2) creative and generative - a liberation

Finally I have realised that I actually NEED to remove myself from the obsessive pit I've got myself into and I now know what I'm doing.

I will be turning the above images into drawings (I can't completely get rid of the obsessive drawing thing!) that will essentially form the resolution to my SIP. They are intended as a series of 'ironically motivational' images, reminding creatives obsessed with perfection that what they are striving for is actually unachievable and they need to take a step back from this, stop thinking about how best to reach the perfect solution, and just DO.

So What? - so people like me (and I know I'm not the only one like this) need some kind of reminder when they get stuck with a really important project that whatever they do is never going to be perfect anyway, so RELAX AND TAKE A STEP BACK.

DRASTIC RETHINK

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SOMETHING RATHER SOVIET

about Southend

POSSIBLEH

UNSATISFIED

Just made the most unsatisfying book ever.

It's bland, boring, undesigned, I didn't bother to print double sided - the pages are all stuck together with glue, the staples are only just holding it together, edges are badly trimmed.

This is a possible end point to my project that comes after the rest of it has been seen. Meant to demonstrate how an obsession can never be satisfied...

PERFECTLY SATISFYING

8B

This is what an 8B pencil looks like:Plans:

PICK ME UP

Pick Me Up at Somerset House made me draw these hahahaha

I USED TO DRAW

At A Level
And I used to be super smiley

At A Level

CHEATED

So Koh-I-Noor don't fill their pencils all the way with graphite.

Never felt so cheated.

also this is brilliant: http://www.oliandalex.com/james-face/

NOSTALGEE

KILL ME NOW

The above represents approximately 8/9 hours of solid colouring. I actually made myself ill last night after spending 4.5 hours on trying to use up the entire B pencil.

The below shows 1/6 A2 pages that it took to do so:
I still have 2B, 5B, 6B, 7B, 8B and 9B to go

FINDING PERFECTION

How much space does a pencil take up? Have I reached perfection when the whole pencil has been used?

JUST AN UPDATE

To let all 10 of my followers know that although, yes, I am going slowly insane, I am also doing my Self Initiated Project on obsession. Method in the madness bla bla

2000 DIGITS OF PI

Took far longer to write out than it looks, as painful as it sounds

OBSESSIVE=TIME CONSUMING

I spent just over 3 hours on this drawing. Not going to pretend I'm not pretty pleased with it... that's the thing about obsessions - so much time goes into them that you have to convince yourself that they're worth it.

This was it 2 hours in:

And mercifully this took no time at all in comparison:

CHRIS OFILI

Don't usually blog artists work but maybe i will start, I am completely in awe of these etching by Chris Ofili

OBSESSIONS

Apologies for the crap cut out effect, my scanner is awful and doesn't seem to pick up pencil

NO IT ISN'T

I JUST REALISED

nothing I have ever posted on here is actually any good.

JUST GO AND INVENT THE SUCCESSOR TO THE IPAD PLZ