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My New Year’s Resolution for 2015 is to do at least one drawing/sketch every day (RL permitting). None of the drawings/sketches will intentionally be done for posting, which relieves me of the “pressure” of “stage fright”. They will all be loose and hopefully fun.
Once they are done I will scan them into my “magic light box” (my computer) and do a little touching up and cleaning, but again not working towards making them production pieces.
This picture was done after I got a measure of inspiration from seeing a painting by Andrew Wyeth.
Once they are done I will scan them into my “magic light box” (my computer) and do a little touching up and cleaning, but again not working towards making them production pieces.
This picture was done after I got a measure of inspiration from seeing a painting by Andrew Wyeth.
Category All / Portraits
Species Lion
Size 773 x 1000px
File Size 182.3 kB
*laughs!* An easy misunderstanding of a word that can have more than one meaning when talking about digital pictures and New Year‘s resolutions.
I doubt I can over-do my New Year’s Resolution (NYR) since I have given myself permission, when I made the resolution, to skip a day if Real Life got in the way.
However, waiting for “artistic inspiration” to arrive seems to be a very easy way of creating “artist’s block” -- that "I can’t think of anything to draw" burn-out.
To me, just like keeping to an exercise program, making even a lesser effort at the same time set aside for working out every day helps build the “habit” in the mind and in the day’s schedule. The human mind tends to “fight” against what it does not want to do and will find all sorts of “reasons” to keep from doing it.
So for me, even a small 15-minute sketch of a character done with any degree of honest attention, helps build and maintain the desired “habit”.
I doubt I can over-do my New Year’s Resolution (NYR) since I have given myself permission, when I made the resolution, to skip a day if Real Life got in the way.
However, waiting for “artistic inspiration” to arrive seems to be a very easy way of creating “artist’s block” -- that "I can’t think of anything to draw" burn-out.
To me, just like keeping to an exercise program, making even a lesser effort at the same time set aside for working out every day helps build the “habit” in the mind and in the day’s schedule. The human mind tends to “fight” against what it does not want to do and will find all sorts of “reasons” to keep from doing it.
So for me, even a small 15-minute sketch of a character done with any degree of honest attention, helps build and maintain the desired “habit”.
I mentioned one possible story to 
Hollyfox (above) that could fit in with long-ago TV series, but if the viewer lets loose their imagination each could probably come up with others.
Some images are thought provoking (in a nice way) for the viewer -- which I think should be the primary goal of any artist, beyond just making a “pretty picture“ or the succeeding in the mechanics of making the image's components recognizable by the the viewer.
Hollyfox (above) that could fit in with long-ago TV series, but if the viewer lets loose their imagination each could probably come up with others.Some images are thought provoking (in a nice way) for the viewer -- which I think should be the primary goal of any artist, beyond just making a “pretty picture“ or the succeeding in the mechanics of making the image's components recognizable by the the viewer.
And thank YOU for so accurately connecting with the reason and purpose of my art, Pyke. I truly and honestly want my viewers to get some emotional/intellectual response from what I graphically put before them in the way of an image (which is an idea).
*gives you a hug for being sensitive enough to respond to my effort*
*gives you a hug for being sensitive enough to respond to my effort*
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