More lifeform Artist Trading Card doodles, this time the 3 greens and the Sperm of Chewbacca. No idea why the 4th one didn’t match, he just seemed that he needed to be brown rather than green.

Off topic, Bird Flu. Is anyone else complete sick of the mass media hysteria on bird flu ? It’s doing my head in, Worldwide bird flu has killed around 100 people, so statistically you are as likely to be killed by bird flu as having a recreational boating fatality in Florida.

What I really like is the response to bird flu and how to control it. They have set up and exclusion zone involving road blocks at every road in a 10km circle. Now maybe I’m being stupid, but I’m not aware that many birds hold a driving license.

The start of a new set of Artist Trading Cards, my first attempt at collage using a combination of 2 types of artwork, 3d computer graphics rendering and simple sketching. The background is from the 3d tube model I was working on a few weeks ago.

The 2 characters bottom right are both from the same TV show. There is a prize for whoever gets the correct answer and can name both characters.

Firstly here’s some more crow ATC cards, loads of people seemed to like the tree one last time so I’ve done a whole series of crows and dead trees.

I keep coming across these “ways to be creative guides” dotted all round mainly art based sites. A lot of what they say I disagree with, they’re mostly banging on about how things take time and that you have to spend hours of hard work to do something great, I don’t think you do.

Take golf for example, I have played golf about 5 times, a totally useless golfer. On any given day I could hit maybe 1 golf ball out of 500 better than tiger woods and he’s regarded as the best golfer on the planet. What makes him a better golfer than me, well he has some natural talent but most importantly golf is what he enjoys doing. Golf isn’t a chore to him, he loves playing golf. I enjoy painting or drawing or doing computer artwork, its not hard work I enjoy it. If you need a guide to tell you how to be creative I think you’ve kind of missing the point. Its the same as those books on “how to be a writer”, its not hard just pick up a pen and write, anyone can do it, but only those who really enjoy it will actually stick at it.

Incidentally there’s plenty of examples where experts have produced their best work at the first attempt, just look at films, Taxi Driver for Scorcese was one of his earliest films and I’d argue it was his best. Same with 2001 for Stanley Kubrick, Reservoir Dogs for Quentin Tarrantino.

Also as pointed out by Sniv, when Orson Wells made Citizen Kane, possibly the best film of all time it was his first attempt at film making.