Ideas
Originally Published on my Patreon Page…
October 4, 2023
Happy Halloween! no, it’s not time yet. But I couldn’t wait…
I’ve learned that ideas can come at any moment. I get flashes of a drawing and if I ignore it, it chases me until I add it to my sketchbook. That first drawing (ugly, although I’ve told my nieces, there is no “ugly” in art) comes as it comes. And from there it's like the drawing is having a conversation with my hand, telling it what details should be added, yes, they are like commands. After I’ve spent the necessary time putting the mind drawing on paper or my sketchbook, it stops, that’s it, it doesn’t want to go in any other direction, it doesn’t want to be developed or touched. This used to frustrate me. I used to wonder why I couldn’t move past this point. I liked the drawing and I wanted to develop it, but I couldn't move forward with it. It took years for me to realize that I work for my future self. The times when I pushed through and forced a forward movement, I ended up with an illustration that I didn’t enjoy, at all. What was missing? What was that gap? Learning about the creative process and most of all learning to enjoy the process of making art.
The sketches in my sketchbook image were born last year. The next steps flowed so naturally this year that it amazes me, to the point where I declared a completion deadline of 10/01/23 to be ready for print on demand websites! And the image of the drawer where I keep my work in progress makes me so happy, opening that drawer makes me so happy!
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