Press On With An Idea, My Deer Story!

I don't know about you but often if I have an idea I have to draw it that moment else I don't care about it anymore. Sometimes though I like an idea so much it stays in my head for a long time but once I draw it out in a sketch book or something, it's done in my mind and not gonna bother with it anymore....BUT SOMETIMES!!! There is an idea I love so much I have to work at it even more than a simple sketch. These are the times I want to say, keep at it! If you really love an idea, sometimes your skill set isn't adequate to do it how you see it in your head, but that's okay! You can always try again, modify it, make it better. I have done this recently and I wanted to show you my results.

My Deer Story:

I was at work and on my breaks I started to work at drawing a deer, I liked it a lot and I wanted to draw a circle around it and make like a night sky behind it (Kinda like how Kattvalk sometimes draws her pictures). A few problems...1, I don't draw good circles...2, I haven't drawn a deer in months! So? It was a sketch book anyway, so I worked at it. I finished it at home where I could put more work in to it without having to rush to get back on the production floor and not be late. The results, I loved! I knew things were lopsided, but that's okay. I loved the concept so much, and the colors (I used blues and purple)...

...I loved it so much, I had to try again, only this time using a medium I'm better at on more space (a bigger piece of paper), so I used my original as a reference but I modified it, I made the deer look more polished, I traced something that's actually a circle so it looks more completed. I changed the foreground images from leaves to a branch with flowers, and colored with watercolor instead of sharpies.

 I LOVE how it turned out. In fact, I've made an owl like I made the original deer, I might do it over with watercolor as well...not sure yet, but I might!

I suppose the idea I'm trying to convey is, you like an idea, try it out, if you like it but wanna try again, do it! It can't hurt, and it might end up being fun!


So embrace the ideas you have, and have at it!!




Thank you for reading.


~ God Bless ~


~ Firefly

#MayWeDrawDaily Review

You may recall about 3 or so weeks ago in my 13+1 drawing challenges for visual artists post, that I mentioned #MayWeDrawDaily as one of the challenges. Well, May is over and this is how it went for me.

At first I wasn't going to participate, mainly because I can't make a video and I felt bad. But after a few days I figured meh why not, at least I can post it someplace. So I did, and I suppose it went well overall.

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I did get a lot more drawings done than I normally would, and I enjoyed learning new techniques (One of which will be in another post, it was just so much fun I have to share it) I did everything from using children's acrylic paints, watercolor, pen, mixed media, and even a collage. I really got creative. I took myself out of what's right to what is fun. Somethings in life we don't make that decision but for artwork it's okay, if you don't want to outline one part but you do another, you do that! If people can draw two eyes on the same side of a face with the rest of the face being a profile, I think we've lost all reasoning already so you do whatever your little heart pleases as long as it's not malicious in some way!

Anyway, I think this challenge did improve my skills in a lot of ways, and I learned new ones. It seems every time I draw or paint, I'm learning something new. I'm in this artistic stage where everything is opening up to me. Maybe it's a maturity thing where I'm in the first years of adult-hood everything has to grow up with me, no idea and I don't really care because this is awesome!!!!

I did 21/31 days, so not the entire month, but I learned so much, and had so much fun. Looking back on it, it's much more fun than when you're in the moment just trying not to mess up this concept you like so much.
Do I like every picture I did? Nah, but I have my favorites.

So in closing, next May I HIGHLY recommend doing this challenge. And if you wanna challenge yourself now, just start in whatever month you are reading this and go and try and draw every day. It doesn't have to be the same drawing. Say you are an acrylic painter. Just work on that painting every for the whole month (if it's big enough) or do a series of small paintings...I don't know! Just have fun.

Here's a slide show if you want to see the images bigger.
Note: I use PhotoBucket, some browsers can't see PhotoBucket. 




Flash:

I hope you enjoyed my little overview!


~ God Bless ~

~ Firefly