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Doodle?
10 years ago
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So where to start? I haven't drawn for over a week now which is because I got frustrated with a piece that I was working on. It was something I wanted to get done in a day but as time went on it started to take me more than a week and I just gave up.
I notice my issue with constantly looking at quality and what I don't have while drawing. For most of my works I focus a lot on details which takes a lot of time. I do it because I feel like I need to work to certain quality that is needed for others to like it. And that's my only focus... I see a artist describing their work as a doodle and think that my full works need to be at least at that certain quality. Thinking these doodles are some kind of show off of the less focused quality a artist can produce, but it's not. The doodling or simple sketches, whatever you might call it is because in between bigger works you also want to have fun in your art. Something to take your mind off from. That is what I don't really do with my art.
Although it's important that I focus on practicing and finishing my more complex works I also need to find a quicker less focused and more fun kind of way to draw for myself.
I notice my issue with constantly looking at quality and what I don't have while drawing. For most of my works I focus a lot on details which takes a lot of time. I do it because I feel like I need to work to certain quality that is needed for others to like it. And that's my only focus... I see a artist describing their work as a doodle and think that my full works need to be at least at that certain quality. Thinking these doodles are some kind of show off of the less focused quality a artist can produce, but it's not. The doodling or simple sketches, whatever you might call it is because in between bigger works you also want to have fun in your art. Something to take your mind off from. That is what I don't really do with my art.
Although it's important that I focus on practicing and finishing my more complex works I also need to find a quicker less focused and more fun kind of way to draw for myself.
You might try to copy poses from artwork or photos. I'm not talking about tracing, but see a photo and try to draw it. They're just sketches, the idea is to get a mental picture of something and put it down. Working on sketch after sketch after sketch, it can be easy to run out of ideas quickly, so you could try to draw a random photo so you don't have to think "ugh, what am I drawing this time?"
Good luck!
I did do gesture practice with 1 minute gesture drawings before, however that ends up being really boring because there's still more enjoyment to be found in drawing actual characters rather than faceless figures.
The main thing with my style is that I'm trying to get a understanding about how the body works, aside from gesture drawing I don't redraw a pose from a reference picture. I draw them all from scratch using a gravity line and a action line to get a general idea and continue on from there (actually I didn't do that for the last few sketches...). I only use reference material when I get stuck on a certain body part like the arm for example.
Oh and thanks!