Today’s piece started with the vase and the environment just sort of fell in place. The mural in the background and the carpet help with the composition and anchor the floating table. It was also the first piece I drew sitting down the whole time.
I find it kind of fascinating to draw 2D inside a 3D environment…why would we want to limit ourselves to two dimensions when we have all this space around us waiting to be utilized? Is it out of habit? Out of familiarity? In a way, it felt so natural even though the medium itself is so different from a real brush and paint…
I’ve been really trying to get out of my comfort zone and give up on the perfectionist tendencies while drawing in Tilt Brush. It is not designed for that and you could spend hours micro managing your piece with very minimal payoff for the audience. I was always envious of people who could so freely, almost carelessly draw or paint while in the end, the piece itself turning out. I think that’s part of what makes great artists great. Each stoke is a bit of a gamble. And sometimes what’s needed is to relinquish control. It takes a certain amount of bravery to make those decisions…
It sounds a bit dramatic and there is certainly a little more flexibility with the ability to delete or take away brush stokes; or reposition, or group and move parts of your piece – but that’s what makes this process of virtual reality art SO exciting!
Your perspective will either become your prison or your passport…
Steven Furtick