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9 years ago
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sorensystem 
sorensystemI was thinking a little about something today, and I'm wondering if this sounds logical...
I'm wondering if maybe the reason I haven't been happy with any of my artwork the past couple of years is because school has forced me to work on any for-fun drawing (i.e. most of the stuff I upload to the Internet) bit by bit, spread over several weeks, instead of all at once wen I first come up with the idea.
Before I thought it was because I wasn't improving at all, but now I'm wondering if it's just because of how my free time is distributed. Maybe if I suddenly had weekends free or something, like I did two years ago, then I would still be happy about where my artwork was going.
I realized suddenly that I have a lot of sketches I made a couple weeks ago that I really wanted to color once I got the chance, but now that time has passed, I have other things I really want to draw instead. And of course I can start them, but the next time I have free time to continue working on those drawings will be in a week or even two or three, so I won't be excited to work on them anymore. So my feeling in anything I finish ends up kind of dying out before it's really even gotten started.
It's not that I don't know how to stay committed to a drawing - just, this is USUALLY what happens now.
Does this make sense?
I would love to be able to fix this somehow, but really I'm such a slow artist that with the few hours of free time I have, there's no way I can finish a single drawing in a week. The most I can do is a colored doodle with lots of errors. And while it's sort of finishing something and fun in the moment, it's not very satisfying at all.
(And no, it doesn't get better with practice. That's what I've been told for the past few years and I've only ever gotten slower.)
I'm wondering if maybe the reason I haven't been happy with any of my artwork the past couple of years is because school has forced me to work on any for-fun drawing (i.e. most of the stuff I upload to the Internet) bit by bit, spread over several weeks, instead of all at once wen I first come up with the idea.
Before I thought it was because I wasn't improving at all, but now I'm wondering if it's just because of how my free time is distributed. Maybe if I suddenly had weekends free or something, like I did two years ago, then I would still be happy about where my artwork was going.
I realized suddenly that I have a lot of sketches I made a couple weeks ago that I really wanted to color once I got the chance, but now that time has passed, I have other things I really want to draw instead. And of course I can start them, but the next time I have free time to continue working on those drawings will be in a week or even two or three, so I won't be excited to work on them anymore. So my feeling in anything I finish ends up kind of dying out before it's really even gotten started.
It's not that I don't know how to stay committed to a drawing - just, this is USUALLY what happens now.
Does this make sense?
I would love to be able to fix this somehow, but really I'm such a slow artist that with the few hours of free time I have, there's no way I can finish a single drawing in a week. The most I can do is a colored doodle with lots of errors. And while it's sort of finishing something and fun in the moment, it's not very satisfying at all.
(And no, it doesn't get better with practice. That's what I've been told for the past few years and I've only ever gotten slower.)
Any time I put things away they tend to stay away for... a long time. When I rediscover the inspiration for them they usually get done in a short time, maybe just one working session of about two hours.