Riley, it is good to see these ideas. You are making timely critical points here, and there is potential for these cartoon-like images within this drawing theory. If you wanted to “finish” these, continue working with them to make the surfaces more rich (think of William Kentridge), maybe layer echos of erased ghost images, maybe add more areas of tone; in short, think of them as compositions that use a cartoon style drawing, but more importantly are finished gestalts, rich, layered, wholes, with sophisticated surfaces.
Besides this, you could try to think of a novel way to present many of these quick drawings together, that in total do make an impact and a substantial statement. See the installed view of Barry McGee in Unit 4 (scroll to the 6th row) his work is in Chapter 7 comics and other subcultures in Hoptmans text. Check out his quirky small framed cartoon-y images installed in mismatched frames in a dense cloud of overlapping images. See also his cartoon-y drawings installed on plastic bottles, as well as his untitled compilation of framed drawings of figures and texts, photographs of the artist tagging walls, and found objects.
By all means use a cartoon-y style, but take it seriously, and invest energy into creating substantive ‘finished’ work
ericag
Riley, it is good to see these ideas. You are making timely critical points here, and there is potential for these cartoon-like images within this drawing theory. If you wanted to “finish” these, continue working with them to make the surfaces more rich (think of William Kentridge), maybe layer echos of erased ghost images, maybe add more areas of tone; in short, think of them as compositions that use a cartoon style drawing, but more importantly are finished gestalts, rich, layered, wholes, with sophisticated surfaces.
Besides this, you could try to think of a novel way to present many of these quick drawings together, that in total do make an impact and a substantial statement. See the installed view of Barry McGee in Unit 4 (scroll to the 6th row) his work is in Chapter 7 comics and other subcultures in Hoptmans text. Check out his quirky small framed cartoon-y images installed in mismatched frames in a dense cloud of overlapping images. See also his cartoon-y drawings installed on plastic bottles, as well as his untitled compilation of framed drawings of figures and texts, photographs of the artist tagging walls, and found objects.
By all means use a cartoon-y style, but take it seriously, and invest energy into creating substantive ‘finished’ work