Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been drawing almost everyday. Not in a sketchbook, like I’m used to, but digitally. I’ve never felt that drawing digitally was drawing at all, it often felt like a different thing. But now, I’m finding that whilst it does feel different; it’s doing the same thing to my brain. The more I draw, the more I write. The more I write, the more ideas I generate. The more ideas I generate, the more I need to visualise them – it’s a self-fuelling loop and one that is nourished by the same activity of drawing whether using traditional or digital techniques.
I feel like drawing flowers
When you feel like drawing flowers, but someone will pay you to draw monkeys, what comes first?
Other people are infectious
You can catch the flu from another human, but can you also catch their mood?
If I can’t draw a circle
If I can’t draw a circle how can I draw the sun?
No shortcuts
You may be able to find a tool or technique to make a process or drawing more efficient. A digital camera show the photographer the result of their work quicker than a film camera, but it doesn’t make the photo better or the photographer more competent. One still needs to understand tone, colour and composition… Continue reading No shortcuts
Caring when no one else does
If no one else gives a hoot about your art, why should you?