10-23-2012, 07:09 PM
I might have a similar problem. I don't really like drawing, so I really didn't consider a carieer in illustration/concept art till like a year ago when I discovered painting. Till that moment I haven't enen touched a brush since elementary school. I fell in love with painting, playing with colors light and stuff.
The thing is I absolutely don't enjoy sketching, I really struggle to establish something that would satisfy me. The beggining of each painting is a torture, because I immediately want to move on to the tasty part of rendering. I love to see great designs, characters, costumes, environments, or illustrations but I really struggle to make my own. I wish I had someone to make good sketches for me, so I could just render them.
The problem lays probably in skill. I have a terrible shape recognition, and am overly perfectionist so every sketch I make looks like crap to me. On the other hand rendering seems very natural to me, it's like I have it in genes, it's easy and relaxing so in result I really like to do it.
They say you like things more if you're good at them. Maybe if we become better at something we don't like now, we will start to like it eventually?
The thing is I absolutely don't enjoy sketching, I really struggle to establish something that would satisfy me. The beggining of each painting is a torture, because I immediately want to move on to the tasty part of rendering. I love to see great designs, characters, costumes, environments, or illustrations but I really struggle to make my own. I wish I had someone to make good sketches for me, so I could just render them.
The problem lays probably in skill. I have a terrible shape recognition, and am overly perfectionist so every sketch I make looks like crap to me. On the other hand rendering seems very natural to me, it's like I have it in genes, it's easy and relaxing so in result I really like to do it.
They say you like things more if you're good at them. Maybe if we become better at something we don't like now, we will start to like it eventually?
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