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Coalescing Form From Ether
16 years ago
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This is a technical post and artistic assistance request.
After drawing some more, and going out today to get a real sketch pad to fill with... well... sketches. And after observing some local artists practice their craft in person, I've come to a striking comparison between the way I seem to draw and the way most people appear to draw.
When I draw I usually start by defining basic shapes in space with a quick and dirty sketch. Then I proceed to draw every line in ever darkening pencil lead over and over in permutations of practically every possible angle and form until the whole sketch becomes a blurry mass I think only I could decipher.
Then I have to coalesce the drawing from the ether. From every possibility I've created I've got to decide on the most likely correct line for this view and obliterate the others. Most of the time I'm not 100% right, and I know it. If something looks off, I can really tell. So I end up redrawing the same thing a zillion times until I'm sick of it and finally move on. I feel I'm potentially a terrific artist who is currently trapped inside a cruddy artist.
My questions is, is this something I can expect to outgrow with practice? Did anyone else start out this way? Or is there something fundamentally wrong with my approach?
I'll try to continue drawing more and more either way. I'm currently working on something I owe v-meretrix. If I can just manage to coalesce it from the ether. I actually owe him a lot, since he's the one who got me interested in drawing again =D
After drawing some more, and going out today to get a real sketch pad to fill with... well... sketches. And after observing some local artists practice their craft in person, I've come to a striking comparison between the way I seem to draw and the way most people appear to draw.
When I draw I usually start by defining basic shapes in space with a quick and dirty sketch. Then I proceed to draw every line in ever darkening pencil lead over and over in permutations of practically every possible angle and form until the whole sketch becomes a blurry mass I think only I could decipher.
Then I have to coalesce the drawing from the ether. From every possibility I've created I've got to decide on the most likely correct line for this view and obliterate the others. Most of the time I'm not 100% right, and I know it. If something looks off, I can really tell. So I end up redrawing the same thing a zillion times until I'm sick of it and finally move on. I feel I'm potentially a terrific artist who is currently trapped inside a cruddy artist.
My questions is, is this something I can expect to outgrow with practice? Did anyone else start out this way? Or is there something fundamentally wrong with my approach?
I'll try to continue drawing more and more either way. I'm currently working on something I owe v-meretrix. If I can just manage to coalesce it from the ether. I actually owe him a lot, since he's the one who got me interested in drawing again =D
