i was reading a book yesterday and i wanted to share a text i liked very much with you. You might as well learn something from it. (( A TOAST TO THE BEAUTY OF DISORDER )) Forward by Sean Gordon Murphy. Heres the lesson from Sergio Toppi, an illustrator: you dont need pretty lines to create pretty artwork--- even the most basic, entry-level type of scribble can be turned into a masterpiece if you apply to it correctly. The more you control a line, the more it controls you. And most artists unknowingly dig themselves into a trench for their entire career while shedding any sense of spontaneity, out-of-the-box thinking and the courage to embrace happy accidents. When i started drawing comics, i tried to be ordered. i got cleaner and cleaner until my work became lifeless. There was nothing organically human anymore, just cold and surgical precision. And thats when i discovered the beauty of controlled chaos through artists like Zaffino, Sienkiewicz, Simonson and Cohen --- all artist inspired by Toppi. How were these guys taking all this weird mark-making and turning it into something beautiful? Most artists migrate toward order, because when you look at something ordered you think, someone made that. its unusual for an artist to migrate toward disorder, because doing so means being willing to lose viewers as you ask them to make a bigger leap in understanding. We all respect Leonardos paintings because he generally drew true-to-life, which we all know is hard to do. But we werent so sure about Picasso at first. Could your eight-year-old come up with something similar to a Cubist painting? Maybe. But Picasso was so bored with previous trends the he was willing to risk it all on experimentation. Thats what Toppi is to me: a pioneer with the courage to try and create order with chaos.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 18:24:30 +0000
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