ROB OSBORNE | Go Forth & Conquer
So a little bit about me. I'm an artist, a writer, a creative thinker, a runner, a husband, a father, and everything else. I draw cartoons, design things, make things go.
Are you interested in art? Living a life of adventure? World domination? Then you may like what's happening here.
The world is yours. Go forth and conquer!
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In college, I took a drawing course, Experimental Illustration. We used several mediums. We were presented with a variety of premises for the semester’s projects. But it was all very typical of an illustration class. It felt tame and predictable, not very experimental.
We could have ventured into the messy arena of experimentation, where things blow up, mistakes are made, and the unexpected happens.
Instead, we got more of the same. Safe, pretty stuff was recognized.
Perhaps, in an effort to push students beyond their comfort zones and into new, hazardous territory, the safe, predictable illustrations should have been ignored. The illustrations that flopped, the experiments gone wrong, those could have been discussed and heralded. Because new ideas and lessons came from those efforts.
Risk-taking provides breakthroughs. Experiments lead to discovery.
The unknown is out there. It’s new, dangerous territory. The brave artists push the boundaries, get experimental, and make some ugly art. They make discoveries too.
