I noticed during the investigation that, although striving to make new and different looking work, I would find myself in a cycle of :
Established visual language -> purposely trying to make new visual symbols -> becoming complacent and using these as a new established visual language -> (repeat)
However it's not always a bad thing. These repeated symbols would often evolve as they were made again and again. The symbols could be mixed and matched. Establishing visual language saves time, and regardless, was new to what I had done before.
Ultimately, an artist isn't expected to make a different looking piece every time, and in a commercial sense this could be damaging to a portfolio. But a level of self-awareness to not allowing work to become stale is helpful.
Examples of wobbliness and a loose hand emerging in the visuals
Examples of roundness and bounciness with a disregard for realistic anatomy
Examples of the downturned tiger face, possibly the most significant repeating symbol in the project
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