Orrr rather New ~ Style ~ Questionsmark??


Okay, here's a bit of artsy babble:
Right now, I'm looking for a different approach to drawing. There are some issues with the way I do it at the moment, which became apparent to me last month. Basically, I'm wasting time and energy on stuff that isn't important (to me) and at the same time can't invest time and energy where I'd want to put it. So far a good chunk of time goes towards tidying up my pictures. But ... I don't even like the tidy stuff all that much!? I like messy drawings and paintings where the brush strokes are still visible. I find it appealing. So, I don't even know why I wanted to achieve the opposite. So, that's a part I'd want to drop in the future. And instead, I like to focus more on volume and plasticity. Because, c'mon, what's more important (to the characters I tend to draw ...) than their roundness? And maybe to get there, I need to let go of the lines I'm using so far. They can be handy, they can make the character on a picture pop out, but ultimately they also tend to make him flatter. So after a few days of figuring this out and trying around ... this picture is one approach I finally like. Yadda yadda, these are my thoughts. :^0 If you have an opinion about that, I'm curious to hear it!

Oh, that's also why it's in greyscale. Because practice. It's not my goal to stay in black and white, but I need to get the technique down first, than there will be colors again.