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Finding one's own rhythm
9 years ago
Happy Year 2017 (belated™)!
Since I've practised digital drawing a bit with CSP and my brother's Bamboo Fun, I've began improving. Most of my art is not great yet, but I've been able to draw poses quite decently on a regular basis (I'm still using the 'stretch cheat code' too often and my linearts roughly take around 5/6 hours for me to finish. Not to mention I don't do very difficult clothes. Underwear :D...).
Unfortunately, my rhythm has slowed down because Christmas holidays ended super fast, and in no time I was already back to work.
I tried to practise a it everyday, but it revealed incredibly difficult: the simple act of drawing when back home after a draining day at work was eating the remainders of focus I had left. In only a few days, I felt a lot of pressure trying to maintain my practise schedule. So I stopped trying.
This experience was fruitful in another way, however: I realized that I was able to draw for pretty much most of the weekend in January (between 7 and 10 hours a day). I thought about how it was possible, and I reached a conclusion: I can draw a lot during weekends because most of the time I don't feel the pressure of a very tight schedule and time window. Also, as I take a lot of time for more refined pieces (i.e. with soft-shading and 'backgrounds'), working only two or three hours at once during the week was feeling like nothing has been done at all, and it was...'disheartening'. All the contrary to Saturdays and Sundays :3...
I also noticed that while I was not able to draw during workdays, I was at least able to write a few hundred words each day. Especially when working on a story where I'm simply going with the flow, only following a plot not too complicated and building around it as the story advances.
To sum it up, I spend most of my week evenings writing, while weekends are mainly for drawings (it does not mean there aren't exceptions though: last weekend was split between the two).
TL;DR: All this text brings me to the following question, since I'd like to know what other artists do in general regarding time management:
Have you found a rhythm for working on projects that you are comfortable with? If yes, what is it and why did you choose this one in particular?
I'm simply curious, and I also think that knowing how people handle their own business may bring knowledge to help me improve through not only my own experience, but others' as well.
In the meantime, Have a sneek peek of what I'm working on ;D (also sorry/notsorry for the lines on top of each other :P) :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2j6m2nl3g.....0WIP1.png?dl=0
Since I've practised digital drawing a bit with CSP and my brother's Bamboo Fun, I've began improving. Most of my art is not great yet, but I've been able to draw poses quite decently on a regular basis (I'm still using the 'stretch cheat code' too often and my linearts roughly take around 5/6 hours for me to finish. Not to mention I don't do very difficult clothes. Underwear :D...).
Unfortunately, my rhythm has slowed down because Christmas holidays ended super fast, and in no time I was already back to work.
I tried to practise a it everyday, but it revealed incredibly difficult: the simple act of drawing when back home after a draining day at work was eating the remainders of focus I had left. In only a few days, I felt a lot of pressure trying to maintain my practise schedule. So I stopped trying.
This experience was fruitful in another way, however: I realized that I was able to draw for pretty much most of the weekend in January (between 7 and 10 hours a day). I thought about how it was possible, and I reached a conclusion: I can draw a lot during weekends because most of the time I don't feel the pressure of a very tight schedule and time window. Also, as I take a lot of time for more refined pieces (i.e. with soft-shading and 'backgrounds'), working only two or three hours at once during the week was feeling like nothing has been done at all, and it was...'disheartening'. All the contrary to Saturdays and Sundays :3...
I also noticed that while I was not able to draw during workdays, I was at least able to write a few hundred words each day. Especially when working on a story where I'm simply going with the flow, only following a plot not too complicated and building around it as the story advances.
To sum it up, I spend most of my week evenings writing, while weekends are mainly for drawings (it does not mean there aren't exceptions though: last weekend was split between the two).
TL;DR: All this text brings me to the following question, since I'd like to know what other artists do in general regarding time management:
Have you found a rhythm for working on projects that you are comfortable with? If yes, what is it and why did you choose this one in particular?
I'm simply curious, and I also think that knowing how people handle their own business may bring knowledge to help me improve through not only my own experience, but others' as well.
In the meantime, Have a sneek peek of what I'm working on ;D (also sorry/notsorry for the lines on top of each other :P) :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2j6m2nl3g.....0WIP1.png?dl=0
