When things don't work

Colors are on. At first it felt like i didn't know what the hell I was doing. I kept putting stuff down and none of it was meshing. Then I looked at me handy dandy color wheel for 5 minutes and I had a direction. Went with a tetrad scheme this time.

Remember guys, anyone can instinctively know where to put something somewhere. You need practice and study to do it with confidence.

A little more tweaking and we'll call this done.

Also, an undead pirate.

Important Lesson

WARM UP.

Sketch. Loosen your shoulder. Get the juices flowing. This is very important.

I never gave any credence to this lesson because I never needed it. Things would flow from my brain onto whatever media I was using at the time. BAM! Voila! It's great!

I recently moved and I had to take a little over a month off from doing anything art related. I was very unhappy. I attempted to try something a couple days ago and it was complete shit. It's like I forgot what I was doing. It made me not want to try it again for a little while. I can see why people would be afraid to pick up something they haven't done in a long while. They don't want to see that failure staring back at them.

It could be anything. Cooking, music, art, dance, filing, running. It's tough for anybody. I couldn't understand why someone can't pick something back up and want to do it every day. I probably made them feel bad and for that I'm deeply sorry. All you can really do is encourage them.

So stop beating yourself up for making something that isn't perfect. It's a warm-up routine. Nobody has to see it but you. Work on it for about 10-20 minutes and then throw it away or keep it in a sketch folder.

And get better. No excuses.

My sketch. About 10 minutes.

Wacom Tablet

I purchased a graphics tablet! I've been wanting this for years and I finally got one (that I could afford!)!

I received it yesterday so I haven't had a lot of time to play around with it.

It's weird.

The sensation of not looking at your hand while drawing; It'll take a lot of time to get over that. Think about it: You've grown up drawing dinosaurs and whatnot. You ALWAYS had your hand within your line of sight, sometimes it even got in the way. Now you hardly glance at it.

Unfortunately I have to teach myself a new medium. This is exciting and yadda yadda, but it's frustrating to put out crap when you know you'd rock it if it were paper.

Time to draw.