Posted

Jun 15th 2007

Mood

Carefree

Music

No Control - Manuel (Initiald D Season 4 Selection 3)

I just created a new word!

Anyway just a quickie. I've decided to stop doing coloured art for now. Why? Well at the moment my life is always busy and I don't often have time to sit down and draw. This hasn't stopped my creative mood from thinking though and that presents a problem.

No matter what I do I keep getting ideas for new pics or characters or whatever on an every few day basis. This doesn't play well when it takes me on average about 3 or 4 weeks to do a complete colour pic from initial idea to finished product.

See while I'm working on a pic I like to stick with it until its done, I hate leaving things half finished even if for just a little while. So the ideas keep coming but the time I have to draw is tiny. So a lot of my ideas back up and then they all hit me at once. When this happens I get very disinterested in the pic I'm doing and generally put it down for weeks at time.

Thus I've finally decided that I need to speed up my drawings so this doesn't happen. Not to say that I'm gonna rush them but by not inking and colouring I can knock loads of time of each one I do. Besides, with 90% of my drawings I think they look better as a sketch or a simple pencil drawing rather than a full colour one. Either because the scanner rapes my colours and shading or I fluff up when inking or other random events.

So yeah, I'm gonna work on pencil drawing instead. 'Sides I'm interesting in experimenting with pencil shading and stuff so it could be rather fun.