Good Sketching Habits
I’m determined to raise the storytelling capacities in my sketches, and here are some of my specific goals!… Read More Good Sketching Habits
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Best Mom Advice Ever
“It wouldn’t be so hard if you did it more often.” My mom has said this about laundry, cleaning my room, doing dishes, dusting and sweeping, mowing and raking, and exercise. Do it more often, and it gets easier. After writing about habit in a previous post, this bit of Mom Advice occurred to me,… Read More Best Mom Advice Ever
The First Time a Drawing Made Me Cry
I’m taking part in a challenge to try and improve my writing skills but also (and more importantly) my discipline. Please enjoy (or at least tolerate!) In an art history class I took a couple years ago, we discussed whether or not paintings could make people cry. Certainly movies could, and some music. Books (OMG… Read More The First Time a Drawing Made Me Cry
Visual Library: A Vocabulary of Pictures
I’ve been trying to identify and correct bad habits I have as an artist. “And correct” is kind of the important part, and it’s the part I usually forget. I am generally pretty quick to point out (to myself and a few “lucky” others) what I’ve done wrong in a drawing, but I generally “fix” it… Read More Visual Library: A Vocabulary of Pictures
Don’t Touch the Brakes
Nothing is the worst thing I have ever done, I think. Yeah. Pretty much. Doing nothing. I have to tell myself, “Don’t stop going, whatever you do.” For the longest time, whenever I felt like I was stuck/lost, I always just stopped whatever I was doing (drawing, writing, painting, driving) and tried to just stand… Read More Don’t Touch the Brakes
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