As an artist who never finished a lot of their ideas I found out learning tenants of concept art was really important. I started by considering myself a concept artist. Just getting all of my ideas out and then refining them later. Definitely recommend learning concept art if you are in block
I always keep in mind a quote from Neil Gaiman (paraphrasing) - Write when you sit down to write, edit when it's done. If you try to edit along the way, you'll never finish anything.
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fr me last night creating the most crappy bare bones blog website just so that it would *exist*. Now I have to put work in to make it look good or it's a waste.
I’ve seen so many people refuse to share or post, then delete concept art because they thought no one would like it! It’s important to understand why it doesn’t work and how it works when it does if you want to get into writing or drawing. It helps self esteem and helps find your audience. Trust me!
Me relearning to draw humans well and consistently, trying to fight off the perfectionism that made me atop in the first place.
I cant get better if I don’t even get the sketches done ✊
What tradition are we talking about? Because most of the “old masters” of Western art made color studies and test sketches, reused canvases, touched/up revised their work, or revisited the same compositions to create variants later. All art has drafts. We just see the final one.
Each time you do it again, you get to add new features you want and even try to make it a bit cooler or cuter or creepy or whatever. Remaking is just training the brain to realize patterns which makes it easier to draw later.
As long as your doing it, in your head or on paper, your an artist.
That's kinda how I am approaching the book I am writing.
Give the story with basic to moderate details, just to get it down, then I'll flesh it out into more detail on a second pass.
This is how I write research so quickly. I write first to get the bones down and then go back and tighten up language and make sure the facts are there. Do it bad but just do it.
Comments
Yes.
Will my perfectionism let me do that?
Oh definitely not
Will still when possible though
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I cant get better if I don’t even get the sketches done ✊
That's why I'm not an artist.
As long as your doing it, in your head or on paper, your an artist.
Give the story with basic to moderate details, just to get it down, then I'll flesh it out into more detail on a second pass.
Bad? Good? Says who? Kindness is Good, art is a feeling