On Showing Completeness...

"And GREAT art, to be great, requires awareness of the means of greatness - even if few works succeed at it or artists care to strive for it - if for no other reason than it gives satisfaction to the artist of being successful in showing, in communicating, what is thought by the artist as of great importance - and that all the elements involved in the composition is integrated to that end..."

It may seem grandiose, but this ongoing WIP is to be, hopefully, of a masterpiece - that is, of a rendering thought out and constructed to be integrated to its end, thematically... as mentioned in the quote above, I am seeking to see if I can deliberately have 'all the elements involved in the composition [being] integrated to that end...'.... all too often it is said that the sense of life in a work, the emotional responding to it, has to be done without thought - that is, without analyzing the component parts, without giving mindfulness to the work - else the emotions flee.... to me, this is nonsense.... nothing is more prone to being destroyed than to be driving down a road drunk and blindfolded - and without the using of mindfulness, without thought to what one is doing in a rendering, ESPECIALLY for pen and inkers, that is exactly what would be the case of an artist 'plowing ahead' without forethought - especially, too, if serious work is desired to be achieved... so - what I hope to show is how I go about this mental planning - why things are placed where they are, what purposes are served by some of the objects within - and in that way give a clue to others of how to look within their own works, regardless of size [for am well aware am even pushing my own envelope here well beyond anything I've done before]...

In a sense, tho, this is but another extension of what was mention in the Aeyrie posting, carrying that mostly barren canyon to one of its possible completenesses...