For the first time since Outside The Lines began, we’re spotlighting someone who isn’t a Writing and Publishing major! I recently had an interview with Syn Bundy. Bundy is a sophomore Pre-Law major. In this column, we spotlight his visual art and talk about his experience as an artist who isn’t a media major.
Bundy describes his process as “just getting an urge to just be creative.” Which is a statement a lot of artists can relate to.
“If I’ve been sitting around all day, [I’m] just like ‘God, i need to get something on paper!’ So normally I start with just, like, some sketch or something I already know how to draw. So, like, I’ll draw a face or [an] eye, or something. And from there, I’ll be, like, ‘Oh, I wanna draw this! Oh, I wanna draw that!’”
To get inspiration, like many other artists, he uses Pinterest. If not, he gets inspiration from things around him. “I’m always taking pictures and stuff. I’ll be, like, ‘Oh, I can paint that! Oh, I can draw that!”
Another thing that gives Bundy inspiration is media he’s interested in.
“If I see media I like or, like, something I’m really really into–a hyperfixation or something–I AM DRAWING IT.”
Bundy has been drawing since he was young. He started drawing because at school he was bored and needed something to pass the time.
“I was always drawing something, it was always something on some piece of paper–on the back of a piece of paper,” he says. “Whatever.”
When it comes to Bundy’s art style, he describes it as “mostly realism” and says that’s what he’s most comfortable with. But he also has a style that is less realistic.
“It’s almost like the opposite [of realism],” he says. “It’s like, I picked–I would call it a collage of so many styles because I picked up so much. Because I wanted a concrete style other than realism. So I took, like, eyes from certain artists I look into and I watch–noses.
“I would say mostly it’s a lot of–I don’t like lining, so I would say it’s a lot of pencil. It’s just pencil. I don’t like lining, I don’t like coloring, I like it being in black-and-white, and that’s it.”
Bundy would say his biggest struggle is wanting to draw consistently. “The only reason I’m not a media major is because I cannot find the time to do it consistently, I don’t have the motivation to do it consistently, and I feel like if I did–like, genuinely put in the effort, I would like excel. But I don’t want it to be a career. Because then I feel like it’s going to be that pressure: ‘You need to do it, you need to do it, you need to do it.’ And I don’t want to do it. Like, I just want to exist in my little world.”
I hope you enjoyed learning about Syn Bundy and seeing their work. If you’d like to be featured in any future columns in Outside the Lines, then email me at [email protected]
