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Yes! I'm finding my tastes are developing in 2 different directions, and my desire to create art follows them. Direction 1 is realistic: portraits, landscapes, etc. Direction 2 is quirky, and I've so much of it lately that I love. I subscribe to Inktober here on Substack and a few days ago they posted some of their favourite drawings made on the prompt "Wonky". There was one I absolutely loved by Steven Brahma. The style, the subject, the sense of humour - all the things I'm drawn to lately. I also find when I'm in my office, I gravitate more toward "serious", i.e. traditional art and methods, whereas when I'm drawing in my living room with my coffee in the morning, it's generallly freer and looser, because that's my "10 minutes" that may turn into half an hour. It's also often quirky and drawn from my imagination rather than a reference.I keep intending to post them but that mean's taking my sketchbook to the office to photocopy and upload, and I never seen to get around to doing that.
I could take pictures, but it's the same problem: getting them into the computer and uploaded. Unlike you young people, I don't have a fancy phone with apps and data. It isn't impossible, it's just a chore.
I'm working on a dummy for a picture book manuscript. My last illustration "sketch" made me happy. I used an underlayer of color in the sketch. Which is something I hadn't tried beforeI'm starting to get some ideas for my next dummy project and I'm excited to do that. It's amazing how your ten minutes a day practice has expanded my excitement for making more art and my ability to just play around with different materials and techniques. Quick question: is it a good idea to post pieces of an unsubmitted dummy?
I have been making my daily comic ever since I started it with the second cohort. That has kept me drawing. I still don't like to draw people and I find that my people look like a kid drew them. I don't think that's bad, but I also don't know if I would call it my style. Some days I go back to brick people. I hope to find my style one of these days.
I also read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'engle for the first time. It's an amazing book. So hard to imagine that she wrote it in 1963. Some of her concepts still blow me away.
Also one of my favorite author's, Jasper Fforde has a new book coming out in early October. I' rereading the Eryre Affair, his first in the series.
What I haven't done lately is write a Substack post. As you noted getting away from it, makes it harder to come back.
I have started a writer's group for some people writing in the self-help spiritual space.
Yes! I'm finding my tastes are developing in 2 different directions, and my desire to create art follows them. Direction 1 is realistic: portraits, landscapes, etc. Direction 2 is quirky, and I've so much of it lately that I love. I subscribe to Inktober here on Substack and a few days ago they posted some of their favourite drawings made on the prompt "Wonky". There was one I absolutely loved by Steven Brahma. The style, the subject, the sense of humour - all the things I'm drawn to lately. I also find when I'm in my office, I gravitate more toward "serious", i.e. traditional art and methods, whereas when I'm drawing in my living room with my coffee in the morning, it's generallly freer and looser, because that's my "10 minutes" that may turn into half an hour. It's also often quirky and drawn from my imagination rather than a reference.I keep intending to post them but that mean's taking my sketchbook to the office to photocopy and upload, and I never seen to get around to doing that.
I love reading this, especially the last bit, it shows that you are doing this for you and not to share:)
What would it look like if it was easy to share your work?
I have a book by Quintien Blake of his drawings, how it was made was someone coming to his studio daily to take pictures of his drawings
I could take pictures, but it's the same problem: getting them into the computer and uploaded. Unlike you young people, I don't have a fancy phone with apps and data. It isn't impossible, it's just a chore.
I'm working on a dummy for a picture book manuscript. My last illustration "sketch" made me happy. I used an underlayer of color in the sketch. Which is something I hadn't tried beforeI'm starting to get some ideas for my next dummy project and I'm excited to do that. It's amazing how your ten minutes a day practice has expanded my excitement for making more art and my ability to just play around with different materials and techniques. Quick question: is it a good idea to post pieces of an unsubmitted dummy?
I don’t think there is a right answer, I would say show snippets out of context
Thanks.
I have been making my daily comic ever since I started it with the second cohort. That has kept me drawing. I still don't like to draw people and I find that my people look like a kid drew them. I don't think that's bad, but I also don't know if I would call it my style. Some days I go back to brick people. I hope to find my style one of these days.
I also read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'engle for the first time. It's an amazing book. So hard to imagine that she wrote it in 1963. Some of her concepts still blow me away.
Also one of my favorite author's, Jasper Fforde has a new book coming out in early October. I' rereading the Eryre Affair, his first in the series.
What I haven't done lately is write a Substack post. As you noted getting away from it, makes it harder to come back.
I have started a writer's group for some people writing in the self-help spiritual space.