Nicky D's Sketchworld

[DQ_Nick]

I love how focused your studies are. They also conjoin with your interests nicely.

A lot of sketchbooks on this forum are shotgunned with too many different things; a perspective study, an anatomy study, animal study, medieval design study, architecture study, exclusively studying from photos, exclusively drawing from imagination ALL. WITHIN. A. FREAKING. WEEK.

It's cool to have many interests, but FOCUS is important as hell, especially when it comes to improving as an artist.

Good work; many people can learn a lot from these 2 pages.

Thank you man, I absolutely agree with what you're saying about focus. It's easy to get caught up in the panic of wanting to get better at everything at once; perspective, anatomy, form, light, color, narrative, materials, character design, environment design, and so on forever. At some point you have to just sit down and figure out what you want to do professionally and do JUST that thing and exclusively the studies that will get you better at specific pieces and specific projects, otherwise it's just studying for the sake of studying.

Focus is definitely the key.