06-11-2021, 10:10 PM
Wow, it's been almost 8 years since I first started this sketchbook. A lot has happened and some goals have been met and some goals haven't. Revistiing this thing has been a good reminder to myself of how much I used to love painting, and I want to recapture that. I took a break in 2020 from painting and I'd like to get back into it.
My art focus became very fractured in 2016 onwards, as I was learning to paint in oils/eggs with brushes and felt under the influence of many different pressures. Now, I know for certain a few things:
- i dont want to make art freelance. i want to paint my own things, and if i can monetise them somehow on the side, great, but that is far secondary
- painting both digitally and with brushes are very compelling to me and im not at a position yet to fully commit to either
- i want to get back in the habit of painting purely for the fun of exploring, and less out of this ambition to manifest a vision that i have. the joy of diving into a blank canvas and not knowing what will happen can disappear when you spend too much time refining and digesting ideas
- i want to share my art with people online again, i havent been doing that in a long time. i got a lot of enouragement reading back through the posts in thsi sketchbook, thank you all who left kind and positive comments
for future art goals and practice..
i was recently inspired by a manga called Witch Hat Atelier. i dont know anything about manga as a medium and tend to not be a fan of the style but the drawing in this is really sublime. he knows his anatomy extremely well and he knows how to simplify shapes and values and get to the essence. he also tells the hero adventure very well, its magical. this has inspired me to get back into the constructivist- approach to figure drawing and modelling. i still love pure abstraction but i am compelling to bring some of this back in. ive wasted a lot of time on having inadequate methodology as to learn figure and construction, but i want to take new steps in this direction.
heres a sketch i made today to affirm the desire to get back into posting and creating loosely from imagination
My art focus became very fractured in 2016 onwards, as I was learning to paint in oils/eggs with brushes and felt under the influence of many different pressures. Now, I know for certain a few things:
- i dont want to make art freelance. i want to paint my own things, and if i can monetise them somehow on the side, great, but that is far secondary
- painting both digitally and with brushes are very compelling to me and im not at a position yet to fully commit to either
- i want to get back in the habit of painting purely for the fun of exploring, and less out of this ambition to manifest a vision that i have. the joy of diving into a blank canvas and not knowing what will happen can disappear when you spend too much time refining and digesting ideas
- i want to share my art with people online again, i havent been doing that in a long time. i got a lot of enouragement reading back through the posts in thsi sketchbook, thank you all who left kind and positive comments
for future art goals and practice..
i was recently inspired by a manga called Witch Hat Atelier. i dont know anything about manga as a medium and tend to not be a fan of the style but the drawing in this is really sublime. he knows his anatomy extremely well and he knows how to simplify shapes and values and get to the essence. he also tells the hero adventure very well, its magical. this has inspired me to get back into the constructivist- approach to figure drawing and modelling. i still love pure abstraction but i am compelling to bring some of this back in. ive wasted a lot of time on having inadequate methodology as to learn figure and construction, but i want to take new steps in this direction.
heres a sketch i made today to affirm the desire to get back into posting and creating loosely from imagination
- Sketchbook - seeking critique & feedback
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