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Winter Cleaning
12 years ago
About once every six months or so I go through everything I've drawn and throw it all out. Finished inks, unfinished WIPs, redrawn comic panels... Really, just about everything except for finished web-comic pages and sketchbooks, which I just feel kind of weird throwing out. Sometimes, i wonder if someone would find it and try to make sense of it all.
What actually gets to me more than throwing away physical art work is throwing away nubs of colored pencils. If you draw with non-photo blue colored pencils as much as I do then you probably know how many of these things you can rack up over the course of a year. I've been saving these things for years for no reason in particular (Maybe I could make a hole in them and turn them into a non-photo blue necklace! ... No.) and now I'm throwing them out with everything else. It's kind of weird that I have saved these things. I don't save other things... Like used up brush pens or even finished original art. Thinking about it like that, it's kind of funny as an artist, the things I get attached to.
Also, thanks to all for the recent watches and favs!
Edit: I'm sorry if this journal does seem wasteful. A lot of my finished drawings are in sketchbooks, which don't get thrown out. I usually work with the front and backs of the paper I use to cut down on waste. That's probably at least one reason why my finished inks don't really look so presentable (on paper) when they're finished. Nature and how we use or natural resources is super important to me as I feel like it should be for everyone.
What actually gets to me more than throwing away physical art work is throwing away nubs of colored pencils. If you draw with non-photo blue colored pencils as much as I do then you probably know how many of these things you can rack up over the course of a year. I've been saving these things for years for no reason in particular (Maybe I could make a hole in them and turn them into a non-photo blue necklace! ... No.) and now I'm throwing them out with everything else. It's kind of weird that I have saved these things. I don't save other things... Like used up brush pens or even finished original art. Thinking about it like that, it's kind of funny as an artist, the things I get attached to.
Also, thanks to all for the recent watches and favs!
Edit: I'm sorry if this journal does seem wasteful. A lot of my finished drawings are in sketchbooks, which don't get thrown out. I usually work with the front and backs of the paper I use to cut down on waste. That's probably at least one reason why my finished inks don't really look so presentable (on paper) when they're finished. Nature and how we use or natural resources is super important to me as I feel like it should be for everyone.
But I don't like the look of my pure digital drawings in comparison to drawings that have been penciled/inked traditionally. The fact is I just don't have room for it all.
Just..if you ever, ever consider tossing that pic you did of Zid..may I please have it? If it's not digital, that is. I love it SO much. Meggy...I should have recorded myself while working on that trade I did for you. I feel really bad not having done so, mostly because it was SOOOOO much fun to do.
Anyways..like I said, I woud gladly pay shipping if you ever want to send anything my way, especially the stuff you've done with Zid and with..well..'Aughie' omg..I love that character so much.
The thing about my drawings is that I don't really hold them on a pedestal and make everything perfect because so much of what I do is digital so I change things as they go along. There's no cleanup (outside of sometimes really clunky blobs of Wite-Out that I draw over) because I do that digitally. And once the finished product is done, I save everything at a high resolution for my archival purposes, so the pencils and inks are just a means to an end. The finished piece when the inks and colors all come together is what really counts for me. (Actually, I'm not really even sure why I keep many of my old comics because they are so heavily edited digitally.)
My poetry is about the only thing I keep around, and that's mainly because I use dropbox. Honestly..I dunno why I keep stuff. I'm very much a 'move on to the next thing' kinda person, mostly because my writing is generally made up on the spot. I very rarely plan things out or tinker with things for long.
But I'm the same way as far as just wanting to move on to the next thing.
I even have stuff that pains me to look at (art I've done for ex girlfriends, really old gory porn from when I thought that was cool, the weeaboo stage...) It's all in a folder, inside a folder, inside a binder that's in a box hidden in my closet buried under textbooks.
I really need to be more eco friendly but... Must hoarde all the things..