03-15-2017, 07:40 AM
Alright... this is only going to be a text-based post because bitch I can, and it mixes things up on my sketchbook. I always liked speaking my mind while posting my art on websites since... I dunno, I really like doing that. DeviantArt and Tumblr are wonderful places for that. Twitter and Instagram does not... (If you can find my Introduction thread, then holy balls I talk a lot)
Studying
A word that I fling around almost every damn time I come unto this website.
It's only because 80% of the people on here do these ultra heavy studies and I get worried about my progress as an artist. Some people on here tell me not to worry but... it's hard not to.
I should be thinking about what these other artist's lifestyles are since I think most of the people here don't go to high school for most of the day. So... me doing these quick sketches and not fully fleshed out studies is justified? I never liked thinking that way but I am not going to stress myself out over these things because it's ART. Art is supposed to heal and rejuvenate me.
Secondly, there is this stupid thought in my head that there is a linear way of doing my studies.
Me doing things differently from the norm is a pretty common thing in my life. I tie my shoes differently, I hold my pencil differently, I cope with annoying niggas differently (I'm sorry if that type of language is forbidden here), and I am still doing well in life right now. So what is going to be different about studying? Sure, there is a similar theme among my studies. I don't just copy the picture then move on. It doesn't help me remember anything about the thing that I am trying to study. I take notes and do a bunch of tiny drawings on the side to wrap my head around the subject. But I don't have to make everything look pretty pretty or do a study with a specific medium, these studies are for me... yet I forget that. I need to stop following other artist's methods if I know that it makes me uncomfortable.
Thirdly, I have seen a pretty recent stream by Sycra on his Sycralogical Podcasts and they bring up a very interesting topic on the topic of studying according to your major. I want to be a character designer. I want to make up or redesign any character that I want and give them charm and likability to them. On Sycra's stream, they talked about artists who pretty much are a slave to the fundamentals. Some artists say they want to do comics when they are professional but all you see them do is the fundamentals... and no comics. And because they slave over all the main fundamentals, they don't exactly focus on doing the comics part since doing comics has their own rules and fundamentals on their own like panel composition and placement.
It made me think because I have doing so much anatomy and proportion studies, I forgot that I wanted to create characters. So... even if I fuckin' stink at making characters, I will get the assistance I need to fully make a good character.
I just need to start creating characters.
Studying
A word that I fling around almost every damn time I come unto this website.
It's only because 80% of the people on here do these ultra heavy studies and I get worried about my progress as an artist. Some people on here tell me not to worry but... it's hard not to.
I should be thinking about what these other artist's lifestyles are since I think most of the people here don't go to high school for most of the day. So... me doing these quick sketches and not fully fleshed out studies is justified? I never liked thinking that way but I am not going to stress myself out over these things because it's ART. Art is supposed to heal and rejuvenate me.
Secondly, there is this stupid thought in my head that there is a linear way of doing my studies.
Me doing things differently from the norm is a pretty common thing in my life. I tie my shoes differently, I hold my pencil differently, I cope with annoying niggas differently (I'm sorry if that type of language is forbidden here), and I am still doing well in life right now. So what is going to be different about studying? Sure, there is a similar theme among my studies. I don't just copy the picture then move on. It doesn't help me remember anything about the thing that I am trying to study. I take notes and do a bunch of tiny drawings on the side to wrap my head around the subject. But I don't have to make everything look pretty pretty or do a study with a specific medium, these studies are for me... yet I forget that. I need to stop following other artist's methods if I know that it makes me uncomfortable.
Thirdly, I have seen a pretty recent stream by Sycra on his Sycralogical Podcasts and they bring up a very interesting topic on the topic of studying according to your major. I want to be a character designer. I want to make up or redesign any character that I want and give them charm and likability to them. On Sycra's stream, they talked about artists who pretty much are a slave to the fundamentals. Some artists say they want to do comics when they are professional but all you see them do is the fundamentals... and no comics. And because they slave over all the main fundamentals, they don't exactly focus on doing the comics part since doing comics has their own rules and fundamentals on their own like panel composition and placement.
It made me think because I have doing so much anatomy and proportion studies, I forgot that I wanted to create characters. So... even if I fuckin' stink at making characters, I will get the assistance I need to fully make a good character.
I just need to start creating characters.