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As an artist, do you do warmups?
2 months ago
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I'm starting to think I should probably do that...
feels like I don't really get into a proper flowstate until I'm like an hour into drawing...
feels like I don't really get into a proper flowstate until I'm like an hour into drawing...
I would either love my warm up and want to keep working on it or I'd get frustrated and shit talk myself into not wanting to draw.
its hard to force it, yeah...
but i -have- to draw...its my only source of income...
I could use a slice of that...once i get going it feels "automatic" but especially the first step, picking up the pen, is a huge struggle for me...
I was hoping that the "sink or swim" pressure would help me get my shit together but now that I'm in that situation it just makes it even harder to swim...
Hopefully somehow we could find a better and painless solution for this. I really need a better life and I really want to pursue my career as an artist, musician and enthusiast.
I am always amazed when I see artists like aruurara do like
6 thumbnails and discard 5 of them
Maybe sketches arent so precious that they all need to be refined but it does feel like a bit of a waste to me...
pretty much all of them have the potential to turn into a beautiful piece...
But most of the time, I 'feel' what I want to draw, so things are here on the first thumb, just need adjustments, not a total nor different building proposition.
maybe....
maybe im too complacent, staying in my comfortzone...
i used to do sketchpages like that a lot...
Cause yeahhhh, same xD
i think im also falling into the trap that "it has always worked out well without warmups" so......yeah....even if it could be better, it doesnt feel...necessary?
maybe its one of those things that was more applicable when art was primarily done traditionally, as opposed to digitally, when you could potentially be wasting not just time but also materials/money..
The answer, I found out, has already been said before by Alan Moore:
"... A genuinely helpful reaction to a piece of work that you're reading is 'jesus christ, I could write this shit.' That is immensely liberating ..."