Often I find that when I am creating something I just flash right through it, no real thought involved, I just go with the flow and it becomes something. Yet art has a process that most are unaware of, and I have become all too familiar with. There are times that art seems to take forever. You start with a blank canvas or page, and nothing ever comes out of it. You stare at it for hours adding one line after another, one color then the next, wondering why you ever started the project in the first place.
Sometimes you have to research, you have to find the best materials for the project at hand, and you have to go through many trials and errors before you find the best way to complete your project. Sometimes you get frustrated, put the project aside and just sit and wait till the right moment hits you. Other times you start a project but it was not within your budget, so you have to bid you time cursing the whole thing while you save every extra penny you can to get the remaining materials. When I wrote www.morphsuits.com, I offered to paint some suits, to get some free suits and to build a portfolio and a business base I thought I was just going to be flashing through some projects, with my usual style of strange but trip art. Which of course I did do a couple of designs like that, but I was challenged with a remake of a movie prop. A Morph"TRON: suit!!! At first I wanted it to be just like the tron suits in the movie, that light up. I Ordered a test piece of EL Tape, just one little piece that would maybe have done one side of one of the arms cost 35 dollars, and that's without the power up link, which for some reason I thought I could find a mod or something at Frys Electronics...Guess not... Oh well...
So that Idea was a bust, for a small sheet that I could cut into desings, I could pay 20 dollars, but I would have to order about 400 to 800 dollars worth to make the proper cuttings for the design. So I had to skip that option, So I tried testing El Wire. It broke when I tried to bend it how I wanted it, then on top of that it is not thick enough. So I thought I would try glow paint. That didn't work out too well at all. As I thought I have never been very symmetrical with painting. So I had one more option to try, glow tape. I ordered it with the remaining money I had left and ordered the wide kind, and ordered enough to make sure I had extra in case I made a mistake... When it arrived it appeared perfect, I cut off a test piece and attached it to the fouled up morph suit from painting, the adhesive wont stick to the suit...
So I went to Micheals and founds some fabric glue brought it home and tested it on the tape and the suit. The solution was found. So Then I began to mark the tape where it needed cutting and shaping, I cut it, then peeled off the backing applied the glue, and attached one piece at a time and let each piece dry before I added another. The process was tedious and long and often annoying, but I kept at it, and completed my task. Its not 100 percent perfect, but for my first time ever doing something like this I am ecstatic about how it turned out.
