Shart School

For the last two years of art school I've been making really personal art. The first year was really good and by the end things were flowing really well. Nothing a four month break couldn't fix. So by the time I got back things became a real struggle. To the point where I was making art about struggling. This is on a par with making comics about having no ideas for comics I guess. It's bad.

I got to the point where in one work I summed up a lot of my frustration with where things were going. Only I didn't know it at the time of making it. You'd be surprised how often this happens. You make something without realising what it's going to represent or mean to you at the end. Sometimes you make something with a meaning in mind and the creative process usurps your meaning altogether. It can be exciting or annoying depending on what insights you get. But this time the insights were good.

I am at breakthrough point. It rules.

I was a little worried for a while that if I started to change the type of stuff I've been doing for the last two years I would struggle and my marks would suffer. But I realised that if I keep struggling next year like I did this year then I'm going to get fucked on anyway. I might as well get fucked on for doing something I enjoy. But I don't think I will get fucked on because I totally rule.

And for the first time in a while, I'm happy about going back to art school. I can't wait.