I hear it a lot..."You have so many different looks"..."I love your more illustrative work"..."You need to focus on one style"..."you're confusing"...and while I don't completely disagree with any of that, I do think that the work is actually more similar than most people realize.
I gathered together a number of images here that, I hope, can help you better understand how the work links together. It's not that each piece is any number of specific steps removed from the next or that there is a progression that would turn the most simple line drawing into a wild abstract...but hopefully, moving down one step at a time, you can start to see how the work gets slightly more representational, slightly more minimal as you scroll.
So...if you look at any piece individually...or a couple from different series...or just two unrelated pieces, they are going to look different but it's a few small changes a long the way that direct that...not a total shift in style.
When put in line, I think the transition, the "style change", becomes much more subtle and understandable...it's when you only see the first and last piece side by side that you're left wondering how many artists I've got hidden in my studio.
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