Channel's Exemption
- CHANNEL'S EXEMPTION - A black ink drawing on an 11 x 14 size vellum paper. This drawing appeared in "Galileo," magazine, June, 1977, illustrating the story, "The Channel's Exemption," written by Jacqueline Lichtenberg.
All artists have been influenced, in some way, by artists from previous generations, and many have started out by copying an artist they admired, like I did. But sooner or later a decision has to be made whether to stay with a copied style and technique, go with a personal style that just came naturally, or, to experiment with different styles and techniques in search of some new artistic way to express oneself.
Picaso was a masterful traditional artist in his early years, but he became annoyed with the influential art critics of his day. He found their "standards" difficult to deal with and became tired of all the hard work he had to do to create a painting that would impress them. So he decided to ignore them all and do his own thing. He began to experiment with all kinds of materials and found out that he had a knack for doodling, it was fun! And to his everlasting joy, and profit, he managed to create, in his liftime, over 50,000 works of art. That averages out to at least two "masterpieces" every day, for 70 years, without taking even one day off to rest! At that pace he could'nt have spent much time thinking about what he was doing, he just doodled away at what came naturally to him. At the time of his death his estate was worth over 2 billion dollars. He is considered to be the father of "Moderm Art".
But most illustrators do not go the way of Picasso, the ones who do usually illustrate children's books. SF illustrators usually go the way of traditional artists.
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