Art Exercise - Tumblr Posts

A tip on getting past a focus on perfection.

For some people, when they look down at their art they will see problems everywhere and try and fix every little thing that looks odd to them. This can be considered art blindness, it is caused when an artist has been staring at a drawing long enough that even if it looks good they will only see the flaws in it. I have always had a major issue with this and have had a tendency to even feel the need to make even my own watermark absolutely perfect. A way I've been trying to push through art blindness is drawing on paper with pen and nothing else. This may seem like it could be silly however with pen it forces you to work with your mistakes instead of merely erasing and trying again, it causes you to need to use a different sketch book or piece of paper if you wanna make a minor change. Because of that fact it allows you to figure out how to focus on how to improve your drawing and to work with the mistake instead of around it; or in other words it forces you to trust the process. Here are some examples of things I drew utilizing this art exercise. A lot of these will later be made digital and I will color them in. These are far from perfect and I can definitely see some flaws especially in anatomy however this gave me a chance to actually finish some drawings and try to work on improving any mistakes I made and learn from them so I can try and avoid them in the future. This technique can be very infuriating but your end product whether just a sketch, doodle, or finished piece of art shows you put effort into improving and whoever tries I'm proud of. Even if someone rages or quits before finishing the drawing I am also proud of you for atleast trying. Those who don't have motivation to do it but are thinking about doing it? I am also proud of you. If anyone utilizes this exercise be sure to respond to this post or at me in your post. <3

Here’s a thing I never posted - a blob challenge (where you paint random blobs and try to turn them into drawings). I was really struggling to make anything at the time and I remember being disappointed with it, but in hindsight I think they’re pretty good. I like the little ghost guy and the sea cratures.

How I pratice drawing things, now in a tutorial form. The shrimp photo I used is here Show me your shrimps if you do this uvu  PS: lots of engrish because foreign 

practicing faces 

Character Design Exercise: Silhouettes (Witch Version)

I dunno I just thought it’d be fun to do (it was)