11-03-2019, 10:55 AM
@Jephyr:
My automatic drawing period only lasted a week or two unfortunately, it was an experiment to bypass any planning after a decade without drawing. Old habits took over quickly and I have a more and more clear idea of what I am going to draw now. When I trained in the 2000's I observed that the more accurate I grew, the less spontaneous I became - the Venerable's wild strokes being an exception as you noted. I would really like to reconcile wild spontaneity with precision, not sure if this is possible.
There is an urban legend running in this thread that I was burned out but it was not the case. When I realized that making a comic is a full time job that generally does not pay the bills, I lost interest in telling my stories - and drawing - ten years ago. Now I'm obeying an urge to express something, not quite sure what yet.
Thank you so much for your comments and encouragements. I am now trying to get back to painting, which I used to love, and abandoned because a painted comic takes even more time.
More attitude research for Chloe the dryad. How much am I struggling with the paint thing... You can pick up riding a bike in a few hours after a decade without riding, but painting is another matter... I am aware of many shortcomings in all these half-done images and will try to return to them later.
And here I am trying to do studies again. I never pick artistic poses for study but this one is natural enough that it could be in a comic panel. Author unknown, I found the photo on quickposes.com when doing speed sketching. Does anybody know?
My automatic drawing period only lasted a week or two unfortunately, it was an experiment to bypass any planning after a decade without drawing. Old habits took over quickly and I have a more and more clear idea of what I am going to draw now. When I trained in the 2000's I observed that the more accurate I grew, the less spontaneous I became - the Venerable's wild strokes being an exception as you noted. I would really like to reconcile wild spontaneity with precision, not sure if this is possible.
There is an urban legend running in this thread that I was burned out but it was not the case. When I realized that making a comic is a full time job that generally does not pay the bills, I lost interest in telling my stories - and drawing - ten years ago. Now I'm obeying an urge to express something, not quite sure what yet.
Thank you so much for your comments and encouragements. I am now trying to get back to painting, which I used to love, and abandoned because a painted comic takes even more time.
More attitude research for Chloe the dryad. How much am I struggling with the paint thing... You can pick up riding a bike in a few hours after a decade without riding, but painting is another matter... I am aware of many shortcomings in all these half-done images and will try to return to them later.
And here I am trying to do studies again. I never pick artistic poses for study but this one is natural enough that it could be in a comic panel. Author unknown, I found the photo on quickposes.com when doing speed sketching. Does anybody know?