Brian Ducoffe's Blog - Posts Tagged "publishing"

What's the difference between commerical and independent? For me it's vulnerability. There's such an expectation now for artists to be perfect, and if they can't be then they'll bring in someone else to finish the job. But that's wrong.

It's like what Hemingway said.
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

But when you clean up the blood, bandage those wounds up, can you get the same emotion? The same vulnerability out of the artist?

I get a lot of criticism over the grammatical errors in OEG. People say it can't sell with them. Personally, I feel it is harder to put out a piece of art that has imperfections than to put out something so pollished. To subject yourself and your work to such scrutiny and negative judgement is hard, and some of the reviews I've recieved have been difficult to read.

But OEG is so not about the finished product, it was about the process. This book was the 2010 version of myself bleeding and vommiting onto the pages, trying to create something that represented who I was as a person, and as an artist at that time.

I am not a perfect artist. I never will be. And the flaws sewn into my work's pages prove it.