My excuse when I was younger was Oh don't want anyone finding my drawings. Going in rigid order just stifles my creativity. There really is no explanation that is just an odd creative quirk I have. I'm trying organize my hard drive. I have thousands of sketches and when I don't feel particularly creative and still want to draw I can take one and refine it more.
Sketches, thumbnails, and idea generators don't have to be perfect. I've come to terms my sketches are total crap and junk. Later on I'll refine them they aren't master pieces in it's raw form. Some artist's sketchbooks are awesome like everything is detailed and rendered. Like Wes Burt's and Man Tsang's
Studies of pages from Andrew Loomis's book Head and Hands.
Another thought I am not sure but if I have mentioned this before. In my opinion there are two types of artists Structured and Painty loose artists.
I fall into the Painty loose category I start from scribbles and when I render things I don't blend my medium for a softer smooth look. I just leave it.
Whereas the structured artists might use grids and straight lines and work very cleanly. Their rendering has a smooth blended look. Can't help but blend.
The funny thing is when you are one you want to be more like the other. I have some friends who say Ah!!! I want to have more loose painty strokes in my painting!! and not blend so much. When the loose painty look is forced it looks forced. Sometimes it is hilarious because the mindset to not have organized chaos in the painting does not work out and they return to default mode of blending everything in.Being a painty loose artist who doesn't go for hyper realism I totally admire the structured artists and their approach. At times I do need to be more refined and not so abstracted. Like freehanding something where I really should get a ruler to make that perfect straight line or edge. When I try to blend things or try to work cleanly it frustrates me. My mind doesn't work that way. Excuse me while I dump paint on this for random controlled chaos. I work in that type of environment. One of my main points I'm not a perfectest and coloring outside the lines works for me.
One of "decent" sketches. Used to take 3hrs+ just to maybe do something like this. Now it takes less than 20mins and usually get all my stuff out and watch a tv episode but now I finish before the 20-40min episode is over. Yayness! This is ERM one of my best friend's baby. Told her I'd just draw something for her and in the end I liked this so much I'm going to an oil painting.
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