I get rusty quickly and frequently. Sometimes just switching from one job to another is enough for me to lose focus - and suddenly I ain't drawing what I want to draw. At least not very well. My common remedy for this is to keep drawing that fucker over and over and over again until something starts to look right. But sometimes even that isn't opening up the right circuits for me and I need to just numbly move the pencil around and draw ANYTHING to kinda kick-start myself. So, every once in a while (though not nearly as often as I should) I'll sit down and just freely doodle a bunch of crap all in a big amorphous blob - warm up that muscle memory. This is an example of one such page.
I apologize for the lack of posts here in August - been a busy month. But I should get in another one or two new drawings before August closes out.
'keep drawing that fucker'
ReplyDeleteMy new favourite quote:) And quite true of course.
Whew, I hear ya. The art muscle seems to enjoy running of with it's mistress if not watched after constantly.
ReplyDeleteI think I can pick out where you were really starting to loosen up and just let the pencil go places. Fun blob of noses and stuff ;)