Darktiste Sketchbook

[SufferDriver]

Darktiste, i will say to you the advice i wanted to be said to me a few years ago and i would be right now a bit more advanced on my artistic path;
- Don´t fear your weaknesses, don´t fear failing, embrace it, the failings of today will be your experience of tomorrow artisticwise. Be persistent, do 100 bad drawings/ studies but put yourself on the battlefield, 1000 bad drawigs if it is what it takes to remove bad work from your system.
- I wish i hadn´t been  fearful in my transition from traditional to the digital painting realm, i wish i didn´t make excuses on why i would not need practice in digital painting/fundamentals.
I can´t change the past but i can change the future.

If it encorages you, i´ll show you one of my first digital paintings and how bad it sucks.


Hard work dude Cheers!

The problem with creating drawing that are bad is that it chip away your confidence and to create good drawing you need to be confident or you get easly derailed when sh1t it the fan.It not easy to push through a bad drawing but you eventually learn that you can fix your drawing sometime.The problem is when you work destructively and you don't create safety net in a digital medium if you fail at certain stage of a drawing.It important to create those safety net and that what i am trying to fix.

Digital paint is much more forgiving in term of error making but traditional drawing is what create confidence in your own skill because it remove the digital assistance.

I was just reading through your post and I just wanted to say something that I just recently figured out, not saying you haven't already but for me it just hit me. 
Dont get me wrong I'm bot trying to act like I'm a ything special over here I just want to say this to you for some reason.
Dude I'm getting a bit long in the tooth, I may not have ever been super serious about it but I've been drawing since I was like 3 or 4. Just things I would remember from a cartoon or a movie or whatever. At some point someone told me I had to draw a certain way if I was ever going to be a real artist so I would always try to approach a drawing like the way that artist did. I would fail miserably most of the time but I would think "itll come, I'll get there one day" but here I am 32 years old and I just cant draw like Jim Lee. It just dawned on me the other day after thinking about something someone said on here that I had been spending all this time trying to artistically be someone else and that is why I was failing. I just let go of how I thought I was supposed to go about creating art and just started doing it in a way that feels natural to me and my results are way better. I dont know if this applies to you or not but I say to hell with any rule books or your favorite artists process. Like Bruce Lee said "be like water" and just let it happen in your own voice and maybe you will have less bad experiences.