Hi there.
Long time I write nothing here.
Whatever, let's get straight to the point.As you may know drawing is the best experience that you can afford to yourself. I say it to you because I already went through one challenge and it was the greatest thing that I ever make. The idea was to make everyday drawings and sketches due 90 days. There was no limit in type of drawing. It could be anything that I wanted to do from sketch from life till penciled concept.
There was bad days and good ones but it is not the point. The main idea was to do it in everyday manner to cultivate a habit "draw everywhere you have to". And I tell why.
When you draw everyday and you have no ritual to prepare your workplace, no need to search for refs, no need to make any other stuff that you normally do before to get started you have no importance. And when you have no importance you have no burden, no pain. Only lightness from the process.
Only in the middle of this challenge I brought to myself a feeling how it`s great to draw. I drew everywhere and anytime I can - in coffeshops, in transport, in subway, at workplace, in the middle of the day, at night or before I went to work... And I find the greatest rule for myself: when you draw in morning before you get started your everyday routine this day would be great one. And that`s why I had 90 days of happines. Draw before you get started, draw even if you don`t know what to draw.
The second main point in this challenge was to expose you work. Because I have not had everyday oportunity to scan sketchbook pages I decided to make it in everyweek manner. As I get later that was in some kind of mistake. If I was exposing my work everyday I`ll be draw much more than I already did. I don`t know really why but this closely bounded to volume of work that I did. This is the second main rule: summarize everyday.
And last point was to break the wall of comfort zone that I had.
When I only begin to draw in middle of 2007 I drew only faces and heads, bodyparts and characters. And only much later I understood that it`s not the part of my style but the part of my self limitation. The worst thing was that I made this limitation by myselft. I drew not that I wanted but what I already can. I had some knowledge how to draw bodyparts, I get some idea, I drew them so much time that I was some kind of pro in doing everything wrong. The wrong part was in absence of knowledge of simpleforms. I draw eyes and noses how I used to hundred of times, but without of conscious or understanding. And this continued to 2013. Six years I was playing in my small sandbox when big world with waterfalls and mountains was around of it. And only thing that have to do was to overstep the framework of my playground. Yeah, this sounds pompous, but this is how I felt.
As a consequence of this challenge was the experience that I got and "level up".
So, something like this.
Here is the link to my tumblr with all the sketches that I made within this challenge. Before you will close this page, I`d like to give you last advice: if you want to draw everyday and already began your own way don`t get relaxed and miss your drawing days. This is the mistake that I made.
It`s like to push carriage which stands on rails - first steps are hardest, but then power of inertia helps you.
cya,
cya,
AΞDΔN
