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Find Your Artistic Voice is a book that helps artists identify and nurture their own visual identity. The book features down-to-earth and encouraging advice from Lisa Congdon herself, as well as interviews with established artists, illustrators, and creative. It also answers the question "how do I develop a unique artistic style?"
Artistic Voice
An artist's voice is their own perspective on art. It includes their own style, skill, the subject matter they work with, and how often they use these techniques. It reflects the artist's unique background, experiences, and values. Ultimately, it is what makes an artist's work unique and what makes it different from others.
But when you are in the process of developing your artistic voice, it’s helpful to step back and understand what comprises a voice so you can think about what areas you might want to hone further or develop more deeply. In truth, most artists’ voices, while hard to tease apart, have several distinct components. For some artists, certain components are their identifying markers more than other components, but all the components make up one’s artistic voice.
Skill refers to the level of ability an artist has to create realistic artwork. As an artist becomes more skilled, their ability to communicate their ideas and emotions through visual imagery will become easier. There is no one definition of skill, and as new genres of art are created, the definition of skill will change accordingly. Thanks to great minds like Georgia O’Keeffe, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Sol LeWitt, Romare Bearden, and Vincent van Gogh, by the mid-twentieth century the tradition of a singular definition for artistic “skill” was broken.
If you are self-taught, you can be just as skilled at making art as someone who has had years and years of schooling. Your skill is simply in what you do, and not necessarily in traditional techniques.
The way to develop skill is through practice. If you practice something, you will become better at it. This is similar to learning a foreign language. When you first start learning a foreign language, it is difficult and you may not be able to find the words you need. But as you practice, you will become more fluent and the language will become easier. This is also true for other art-making techniques. As you practice, you will become better and better at your craft, and your fluency will support the development of your voice.
Your voice becomes stronger as you develop your skills. To do that you want to get out into the world, watch movies, listen to music and podcasts, read books, see art, look for what speaks to you. Surround yourself with voices that challenge you or that you don’t understand, not just other artists who resonate for you or who you want to emulate. Remember, it is important for artists to explore their own creativity and to be surrounded by voices that challenge them.
Art is the ability to communicate ideas through different mediums. There are traditional mediums like paint, paper, and clay, but there are also non-traditional mediums like discarded clothing, chewing gum, or human hair. The form mediums give to an artist's ideas influences their style and the mood of their work.
Artistic expression is created through the use of different media, styles, and techniques. This allows artists to explore and experiment, while also maintaining a consistent style. The more consistent an artist's work is, the more likely it is that their voice will be recognized. The consistency in your work is the ultimate expression of your voice. When you find that your work begins to use consistent media and subject matters and has a consistent style over time, this is evidence that your voice is emerging. Does consistency mean you’ll never experiment or try new things? Of course not. And you wouldn’t want to stop experimenting either.
Learning is a continuous process
The author discusses how an artist's voice changes over time. And that an artist's voice is not "final" and that it evolves over time. The author discusses how an artist's aptitude and skill, ideas, style, and perspective are what make the artist's voice their own. And also points out that an artist's orbit around their sun (their aptitude and skill) is always moving, and they are not in a fixed place.