Tabbing Sketches

I just finished thumbing through all of my old sketchbooks. There are a lot of potentially amazing concepts for future pieces of work hidden in them. I've tabbed them all so that I can easily flip through them for concepts for future work. It's great to have a clear mental summary of all of the quality sketches I've done in the last two years. I must get better with carrying a sketchbook, I now see the value in recording each and every thought on paper, sometimes the value of the sketches are not fully realized upon creation.

To increase productivity, and guide my artwork in a more marketable direction, I am going to divide these tabbed sketches into various categories. Each category will share common means of idea generation & creative processes, and will ultimately be intended to occupy similar venues.

Categories

Class#1: Trial pieces, including sketches and any other unfinished work that represents an idea for art rather than actually existing as art itself. These items usually are creative very passively and generally lead to the development of other work (I.E. Wine bottles, Sketch Book)
Class#2: Commercial Bill Payers- Aesthetically pleasing and able so appeal to local Galleries which cater to clientele that has a very simple taste for good art. I will market & sell the original pieces, therefore these pieces should be created with profit in mind . . . and should be made using as little time as possible, and using the least in materials with no sacrifice to quality. Because these pieces will be sold to other people, it is important to get them photographed and retain copies of all work in digital form. Maximum time spent on a class #1 piece is 3 hours, including idea conception.
Class# 3: Brand builders - Refined work that will ideally be marketable on a global level and made into prints. These pieces tell the story of the artist, they contain my essence . . . the touch that makes me unique as an artist. This artwork should be just a little bit more obscure than work of the previous category. Will have to be worthy of investing funds to make into prints. These pieces will be more expensive, and on average more time will have gone into to making them. In general, these pieces will exist in three forms, in its original form created by me, in limited edition print form, as well as high quality digital files. These pieces are the ones that will be accumulating in my flat, because they are more valuable. If the painting is just simple and pretty than it should be sold to highest bidder or asking price, and digitally recorded in the form of a high quality image file. There is no maximum amount of time to work on these, but they must be of substance and quality.

My goal is to get my hands wet and begin pumping out class#2 pieces to sell. After I start making a little income, I can begin investing more time, energy, and money to creating class#3 pieces.

wish me luck . . .