This is going to be a VERY VERY long update. Well A month or so ago I came across this video on Vimeo called “The Creative Gap; becoming better than most”
I would suggest anyone in the creative field to watch it Click here The video is by Nick Campbell. He goes on to say some pretty amazing and inspiring things. I’ll probably go on to talk more about the video in my next post but for now I’ll talk about two things that came up in the video.
1. In order to become a better artist you have to draw everyday. That’s where the project called Draw something Cool Everyday came to existence. Not my idea. It was I believe Nick Campbells or another artist he was speaking of. Anyways the point of the project was to draw something everyday, to force yourself even if you don’t feel like drawing. It can be a doodle, a scribble, a graphic, a full drawing, a sketch or outline, etc. He mentioned that drawing everyday will help you become better and better as an artist as you strive to make each drawing better or more unique than the one before as time goes on. Since I’m getting my Masters in Fine Arts; Illustration with a concentration on Concept Art, I figured what better way then to also do this project.
1a. Drawing everyday also helps with deadlines that you face in the real world when you become a freelance artists or work for a company as a (fill in the blank) artist.
2. Then he mentioned that many artists don’t want others to see their crappy work (doodles, sketches, etc) It makes an artist feel uncomfortable. But you need to be comfortable being uncomfortable. Not everyone’s going to admire or like your work and many are going to criticize it so the best way to get over that is become used to it. Put yourself out there and post the crappy and amazing drawings. It will help the artist become detached to their work. And this is where this post comes in. I am going to post everything I draw everyday just to put it out there. I don’t care what others will think, and I am aware that a lot of it will be crappy but as Nick Campbell mentioned, it takes those 100 crappy drawings to get your 1 amazing one. So I might as well get the crappy ones out of the way so I can get closer to the amazing ones.
Some of my drawings I emulated another artists artwork. When I do that I will post the link of the artists website so you can check them out. Emulating another artists work is helpful just as much as creating your own work. It allows you to learn and see why their work is successful in your opinion and helps you apply those same concepts or ideas to your own artwork.
Anyways I started on July 14,2011. Todays post will be from 7/14 up until yesterday 8/6.
A lot of the photos are crappy quality because i rushed taking them -.- Oh well!
July 14, 2011 DAY 1 – Aug 6, 2011 Day 24
Descriptions:
7/14 Was just random; the theme was magical girls and I limited myself to circle and lines
7/15 I was in Cape Cod at the beach and I was just sketching everyone I saw at the beach!
7/16 Just a random doodle
7/17 7/18 7/19 and 7/20 Are an emulation of the characters from Tangled. I also have the character designs for the movie which is what I was drawing from. None of the characters are mine. Simply and emulation; I was working on figuring out emotions
7/21 #1 and #2 An emotion and pose I was trying to capture for my character design in the works
7/22 Random doodle
7/23 Doodle; I was in a worshipping God mood
7/24 #1 just a random doodle, I had just finished watching Red Riding good so i drew a girl in a hood
7/24 #2 I saw a photo of a model on dA which I absolutely loved, She was stunning so I drew the photo.
7/25 is a contour drawing which was quite interesting. I was reading the book “Drawing on the right side of the brain” and one of the assignments was a contour drawing.
7/26 Drawing of my hand; practicing drawing hands
7/27 7/28 are an emulation of the artist kinke. In Kinke’s gallery you can find the drawings I emulated. Link None of the characters are mine, I simply attempted to emulate them.
7/29 wasn’t really in the mood to draw; some random robot doodle
7/30 drawing of my foot
7/31 Not in the best of moods
8/1 8/2 Practicing the pose for my character design, still some kinks in the pose. Trying to make it come out smooth. I actually took some reference photos so There should be more sketches coming up soon.
8/3 Negative shape drawing of a chair, another assignment from that book I was reading.
8/4 and 8/5 are just random doodles. I actually came home too late on the 4th so I had to make up for it on the 5th
8/6 An abstract painting I was making for a customer from my job but I don’t like it enough to give away.
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