Hey everyone. October was a very crappy month for my family and I, I won't get into too much details just that we lost two very important people in our lives and it has been difficult.
I have found myself needing to draw more just to keep myself occupied. It has been helping me cope and face the days. Before we had learned about the second loss, I had decided to make some changes to my overall approach to art and to build a healthier relationship with it overall. I found myself watching some videos and reading some older books that I had lying around so these aren't necessarily novel ideas but oh well.
One change is that I have started doing sessions of "shitty drawing" where I just let myself draw for the sake of drawing and take on challenging subjects and just do my best and experiment with them to start putting somethings into practice. I might post some at a later date, but right now these are just for myself and it keeps them pressure free.
The second has been filling a full page of a small sketch book before I go to bed at night. It doesn't matter what I'm drawing, nor how good they are, it is just draw whatever comes to mind as best I can and move on.
During my reflections of these times, I found that I have been controlled too much by my fears and the idea that I'm not good enough. I've been putting a lot on hold because I keep telling myself we can't do this or that. Maybe I can't, maybe I'm not but if I keep making it so I never try then how will I ever get to the point that I can be.
So with all that being said, I am in the preliminary stages of a comic book. I am done living in fear and constantly telling myself I am not good enough or being too afraid to really try. I don't have much figured out yet, but I've got about three different documents that I have spent this last week writing different aspects of the world and story ideas down in to start laying out the overall structure of things.
So yea. This is where I'm at. For the time being, a lot of the comic stuff will probably be kept personal while I am hashing out more of the story and getting some world building started, but I do intend on getting feedback on my ideas, designs, characters, panels, etc. when I am getting closer to that stage of it. Right now, I am just enjoying figuring out where my story is going and letting my mind be elsewhere for a bit.
Anyways, this is some of what I have been up to lately. Still working through Perspective Made Easy and I have started to do the full daily warm ups again. I don't know, for some reason I have really been enjoying them so I'm gonna keep doing them. For the gesture portions of those, they were all from imagination. Also working in smaller sizes on them so apologies for that but its been good practice for me.
