My tablet drawings from a mountain hike got way more attention than my studio work

I mean, I brought my tablet on this hiking trip just to kill time, but the rough landscape sketches I posted online blew up. Maybe it's the raw vibe or something, idk. Do you think places you visit change how people see your art, or is that just a fluke?

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nancy_ross3d ago

That "raw vibe" you mentioned is probably the whole deal. Nature doesn't charge studio rent or care about perfect lighting, so you probably just drew what you felt instead of what you thought you should draw. People can smell the difference. Your studio work might feel like a job, but those hiking sketches feel like a person just being there. It's not a fluke, it's the context changing how the art hits people. Maybe your studio just needs more dirt and fewer walls.

the_oliver3d ago

Or maybe people just like trees more than walls.

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david372d ago

Emma's sketchbook from her trip to the Redwoods is full of messy, alive drawings. She usually paints clean still lifes in her apartment. But those tree sketches, man, you can almost feel the bark. Her gallery show last month had both, and everyone kept going back to the forest pages. She said she wasn't trying to make art, just catching the moment. It kinda proves the point about walls versus trees, lol.