Drawn-Imagination

(Copied from my blog)

So... It's wednesday and I'm quite surprised that I'm starting to get a l'il comfortable with blogging again, " but T, you ain't been posting on Instagram or on your blog like you said you would... But I see those reblogs on Facebook though!" Yeah I hear you homie, but what had happened was, I needed to get organised real quick!

You see I've always, always started trying to be more productive with my art by just starting and I burn out real quick, I mean real quick. Give me a week and I'll be back to agonising over my art, caught up with what the hell should I do first and the feeling of "overwhelm" will be killing me, I'll be looking through tutorials wondering what I should start with first or get all caught up with how gorgeous EVERYONE else's art is, True story. 

Now you know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result, right? Oh you didn't, allow me to edumacate you on my life: I start drawing again after feeling the pull, aimlessly sketching parts of a character from the same perspective and usually only the face because I'm too scared to draw the body! I then realise I need to get focused and start looking for a tutorial that will give me that magic something or I'll try drawing from life, get comfortable, then better, then get happy with myself, take a break, cause I'm feeling myself, come back, try and draw a character, because I found someone's art that looked "totally awesome" and then proceed to feel crap about my art, stop drawing for awhile while I continue to overload on EVERYONE else's art, then start all over again .

You can see how this pattern might be a problem right? Yeah.... well welcome to my life. This time I said enough is enough, if I really want to get my stories out of my head, I have to do this properly, I gotta make a plan, one I can follow so I can get better. I'm not going back to Uni, I already have a degree in animation now it's time to brush the knowledge off and start getting better.

 

" you have about a 1000 rubbish drawings so better to get them out sooner rather than later"

 

Here's the deets:

1. First "KISS" Keep It Simple Silly!  I'm not gonna try and do too much but I have to be clear about the things I want to do and
2. second learn the damn fundamentals. These are the things I really have to work on and learn.
3. I'll have 3 main projects: Portfolio builders, my graphic novel "Above & Below" and my storybook "Bo & Cody". Portfolio builders are pieces of artwork following a small brief or challenge that I can put in my portfolio that represents the kind of work I would like to be hired to do and art that will showcase my skills.
4. I'll continue posting here at least once a week, regularly on Instagram and really pull back on my reblogging on facebook. (That place is a serious time suck!)
5. I'll probably use Trello and my day designer to keep me organised and on schedule because if I dont have deadlines, I'll never get this stuff finished.

 

Sound good..? Good because I'm tryna keep it as simple as possible. So here goes everything. I'm starting with anatomy because I've always had an interest in drawing people and the main characters of my stories are girls so it makes sense to start there then move onto perspective and composition. Until next week, keep an eye out for me on Instagram, but not facebook, because that would be inviting trouble.

Hey DeviantArt,

Long time no see

Its been a minute since I've been here, but I decided to come back and get involved and active on the site again.
I've been away for so long because I thought I couldn't be an artist, but no matter what I tried to do, I kept coming back to art. I've been scared to try, scared I wont be good enough or won't be able to communicate my ideas or stories, but there's only so long you can run away from your passions or dreams.

So the best way to tackle this is to go at 'em head on, that means lots of anatomy practice, colour, compostion, design, drawing, drawing and drawing every single day.

Its the only way I'm gonna get better and with the community here on DeviantArt I hope I can... Because I can't give in.

Lets do this.
We rise, we grind.

Ok quick update,
its been a loonnnnnggggg time since I've uploaded some work. I've only been able to fave some work on the fly and comment.
but hopefully in about a week or two I will put up new stuff, and it looks alot better than my old stuff.
So progress has been made!!

By the way "The Endling"s work is crazy wicked. Really talented dude. check him out via my gallery, as I dont know how to do page links.

Busy with Uni work, hand-in's and what not, so new stuff is on the way, very soon!!

Eeewww yuck,
I'm sick, I have a yucky cold. But maybe its my body's way of saying

a: slow down
b: eat properly
or
c: what cold! man up and get on with stuff and dont find an excuse to slack!!

Anyway the meeting we had yesterday with the guy from the motion capture studio, was cool. We're on the right track, and this should be a great project.
Because I have 3 blogs (deviant art, natural-bella and my uni project one) I'm gonna copy and paste it into all of them as I'm too tired to be original.

Before I get to the contest I'm joining, here is a copy of what I wrote on a comment I left for "angelles" art "The Blue Oracle"


It was her eyes.....
it was her eyes that caught me as I fell
their strong but gentle gaze that came before the fall
It was as if I was seeing my life flash before her eyes....
and yet as I lay in the muddy side alley
I did not feel fear
just calm
as if a gentle breeze swept over my lifeless body
as she came to me
and told me
"have no fear.... I am here and I will guide you into the light..."

I was truely inspired by her art, I saw this image posted on her main page and was compelled to write, as I had  all these words floating in my mind as soon as I saw it.

Now here's the good news I was checking out my message page here on deviant art and there was a link in news I think, to a contest by "angelles" just put up to design a phoenix. Now this resonates clearly with me as I have been struggling with my craft, my art and technique. I have been through alot in life and its only when things like this come along that I remember all the shit I've been through, especially in the past 3 years. I've been using deviant art to help push me to examine my life and push me to work hard on improving my skills so I am definatly joining this contest.

How about you? will you join the contest and show us your own rise from the ashes?
go to her page to sign up and read requirements!!

So I have not been slacking, I know I said I had some challenges I need to do, but things changed and now I'm busy with other stuff. I did put up some work and I am drawing more often, but the 2 personal challenges I have for Deviant art and Gnoman have been put a little on hold.
I am now helping to produce a Motion Capture project at Uni for an IDENT we're doing and I still have 2 sound projects and all the other stuff I wanted to improve for uni to go on my showreel and website. Its alot but since taking up this role things are hard but they have made other things I was struggling to organise, fall into place now. I kinda know what I'm doing and don't feel like I'm falling any more.
So all the things I said I would do I'm still gonna do but they just might take longer.

Thats all folks!!
later dudes, catch u on the flipside.