1) New found things about drawing 2)birthday soon!
10 years ago
General
I noticed what I was doing wrong and what I'm doing better now with my art. I've always been busy getting all the details right which always takes a lot of time. Drawing these more simple looking figures and not bothering getting everything right allows me to work a lot faster, aside from that I do more of the basics of figure drawing this way which is more important than the details. Basically I'm sketching more freely now which is what I need to keep at it.
Also I notice how much time I wasted on doing birthday art for some of my favorite artists, I shouldn't do that anymore I figure. I put a 2 hour limit on birthday art, I shouldn't make overly complex projects out of it, I should draw more for myself.
So my birthday is coming up again, I'll turn 25 at the 11th of august. I guess what I found slowly over the past few months is that I shouldn't try to do things because other's expect a certain hight of things from me. I should try to be happy with what I have and all that. I've become actually more accepting, more happy with the things that I draw. I'm not a masterful artist but others think I do pretty well so I should take it, I still need a lot of improvement but that doesn't mean that the things I draw are plain bad.
For example this new character I'm drawing which is based on Kitora's style, I still know exactly how to draw it correctly but I'm trying anyway and sketch freely as I go. Obviously I can't draw it the same way, the original artist does it for years and had his own way of learning it so it's pretty normal that it will take me some time to do it right, even more importantly my style will always be different as it should be. Being a complete copy cat isn't good.
Also I notice how much time I wasted on doing birthday art for some of my favorite artists, I shouldn't do that anymore I figure. I put a 2 hour limit on birthday art, I shouldn't make overly complex projects out of it, I should draw more for myself.
So my birthday is coming up again, I'll turn 25 at the 11th of august. I guess what I found slowly over the past few months is that I shouldn't try to do things because other's expect a certain hight of things from me. I should try to be happy with what I have and all that. I've become actually more accepting, more happy with the things that I draw. I'm not a masterful artist but others think I do pretty well so I should take it, I still need a lot of improvement but that doesn't mean that the things I draw are plain bad.
For example this new character I'm drawing which is based on Kitora's style, I still know exactly how to draw it correctly but I'm trying anyway and sketch freely as I go. Obviously I can't draw it the same way, the original artist does it for years and had his own way of learning it so it's pretty normal that it will take me some time to do it right, even more importantly my style will always be different as it should be. Being a complete copy cat isn't good.
Gamma-Charlie
~kosmonius
That's cool man, you gotta better share your secrets >:P just kidding man, great you are improving your skills =) good luck and lets break the ice on your vday bud!
Raikuen
~raikuen
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Thanks Kos, btw I haven't talked to you for a while, we should chat again.
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