A little bit of a flawed piece but I had to get it out of my system when it came to me or otherwise the momentum would have been lost. Lately I have taken to trying to draw after work, rediscovering my own enthusiasm for creating. It is hard sometimes to want to draw when you spend all day drawing for someone else, creating someone else's visions. You start losing your own, start losing your own euphoria in the creative process. I am in earnest trying to recapture that lost spirit and rediscover who I am as an artist and more important who I want to be. So, for the time being instead of leading my muse to work on the many projects I have sitting on my docket (some rather sadly collecting dust), I am just going where it takes me and learning to enjoy the ride. So you may have to excuse some of the more glaring mistakes in my work for the time being, I assure you I am always working at improving myself technically and weed out glaring problems C:. Sometimes I have to let them go or lose the piece entirely. The latter is hard to do but as I grow older I begin to feel that art should be in equal part a gestural expression of raw emotion and passion and a ceaseless desire to grow and learn. But both must be in balance for the machine to work.
Also, Vantid..no whiskers for you :P. I always feel like I ruin the face when I pencil in whiskers and can't properly erase without erasing half the face. AUGH pencil needs layers, so spoiled with digital ;D!
Third, this maay may be colored if the mood bites me and the time finds me.
Also, Vantid..no whiskers for you :P. I always feel like I ruin the face when I pencil in whiskers and can't properly erase without erasing half the face. AUGH pencil needs layers, so spoiled with digital ;D!
Third, this maay may be colored if the mood bites me and the time finds me.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / All
Species Tiger
Size 693 x 900px
File Size 289.5 kB
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I totally agree with your description. I've been trying to rediscover myself as an artist, it can be uninspiring and tiring constantly drawing other people's visions and sometimes I love just sitting down and drawing for myself. This is beautiful, I really wish you had more time to create for yourself, you're a truly wonderful artist and one of my biggest inspirations :)
I highly highly recommend trying to make time everyday or whenever you can to draw for yourself. If even a few raw doodles that you don't post (I do not post the bulk of what I draw as they are more personal exploration, and at least for the time being I have no overwhelming desire to share them). But it really is important and it keeps your day work from growing too stale too. I always look forward to finishing my 8 hour work day so I can sit down with my pencil in hand and just see where the lines take me and what I my uncover in the process. At some point I intend to start shaping my muse, instructing it with direction..but until I find a way to keep the momentum from dying off, I will follow the windy road it forges ahead of me.
"pencil needs layers" that would be beyond awesome if someone invented a system that does this XD I really love that piece and what I love even more is your attitude towards it. Of course no one is perfect, but it are the small mistakes that make art look natural and show that it's real handwork.
By the way your bracelet and jewelery designs are really gorgeous. If there would be a talented jeweler / goldsmith who can create this for real they would most definitely reach high prices.
I'm glad your muse is coming back. It would be really sad when you lose your own creativity, because it's the probably most valuable thing an artist has.
By the way your bracelet and jewelery designs are really gorgeous. If there would be a talented jeweler / goldsmith who can create this for real they would most definitely reach high prices.
I'm glad your muse is coming back. It would be really sad when you lose your own creativity, because it's the probably most valuable thing an artist has.
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