Madzia's sketchbook

[Madzia]

hey. I had small break in social media, I'm struggling with huge art block/depression/never-mind--just-don't-give-up mood, couldn't find "myself"in my work bla bla thinks I hate to focus on, contemplating art for art sake. Keeping the schedule helped me a lot. I was experimenting much with digital media, trying out many techniques to find the one I feel fits me the most. Some times ago I started working more in traditional media, I was complaining a lot at the beginning, but I found way to translate it to digital and understand painting much better :) Few my last finished works are horrible but how the Art&Fear predicts :

"Look at your work and it tells you how it is when you hold back or when you embrace. When you are lazy, your art is lazy; when you hold back, your art holds back; when you hesitate, it stands there staring, hands in its pockets. But when you commit, it comes on like a blaze."- Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland

The digital media complicates individual art grow, simply because you can do everything and too much options can be a source of painful headache. Especially if you have same approach as me "I just like everything, so I want to be able to paint everything". And here steps in matters like design and individual brush marks, personal color preferences. And even if I am sure I'm doing something different, all my art are somehow connected. The rules that you break only because your intuition says "I like it this way much more" is the style worth spotting and cherishing. You can't force it, you can't fake it, but you can trust it when it speaks to you :)

wooo sorry for long post :D in reward here are some images

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aww yeah i forget i could show additionally grayscales studies for Stephen King's It. I listen lot of horror audiobooks lately, maybe I will paint more creepy illustrations :)