Thank you for the reality check in the artist process. It has helped me to see revisions are not an admission that I can’t draw but a natural part of the creative process for showing work.
Great dragons!! I'm not an artist, but word processing makes revisions faster and easier than back in the day. 2nd, 3rd and subsequent edits really smooth out the bumps.
The colors on your dragon design are really great! And this was interesting for me to read because as a designer and writer of essays, I am all about revising, maybe a little too laboriously (I do so many revisions on writing 😬). For design, it's such an important part of the process, to iterate, especially for product/UX, that I can't imagine separating the two. I think that's why I find drawing on paper such a different creative act that I'm getting acquainted again because there is no "undo" button 😂. Sometimes I wish there was.
This is awesome! And I love you dragon design-- super creative! If I were in town on February 10-- I’d totally stop by! But I’ll still be in CA! Anyway, revising my art is something I totally struggle with. Unlike in my writing, where I know and am comfortable with it not coming out right the first time or the 100th time! For my art, if it isn’t good the first time, I figure I can’t do it! Which is so not true! All artists start with a draft and revise and refine and move on from there! So I’m trying to do this with my art and get over my own block! So thanks for sharing your process, it is hugely helpful!
I love your cute dragons!! Thanks for sharing your process, lots of useful tips to try! My problem tends to be similar - I used to work from a reference using it only once (e.g. a photo of a landscape) and when it didn't work I just discarded it and moved to the next one. Lately I am learning to work on the same reference in various ways, first creating compositional thumbnails, value and colour studies, creating more studies in various media, etc.
Hardest lesson most creatives learn! I tell my kids, each of them creative in their own way, that art happens in revision. First draft is for you, revision is for the viewer/reader/listener/etc.
Thank you for the reality check in the artist process. It has helped me to see revisions are not an admission that I can’t draw but a natural part of the creative process for showing work.
Great dragons!! I'm not an artist, but word processing makes revisions faster and easier than back in the day. 2nd, 3rd and subsequent edits really smooth out the bumps.
The colors on your dragon design are really great! And this was interesting for me to read because as a designer and writer of essays, I am all about revising, maybe a little too laboriously (I do so many revisions on writing 😬). For design, it's such an important part of the process, to iterate, especially for product/UX, that I can't imagine separating the two. I think that's why I find drawing on paper such a different creative act that I'm getting acquainted again because there is no "undo" button 😂. Sometimes I wish there was.
This is awesome! And I love you dragon design-- super creative! If I were in town on February 10-- I’d totally stop by! But I’ll still be in CA! Anyway, revising my art is something I totally struggle with. Unlike in my writing, where I know and am comfortable with it not coming out right the first time or the 100th time! For my art, if it isn’t good the first time, I figure I can’t do it! Which is so not true! All artists start with a draft and revise and refine and move on from there! So I’m trying to do this with my art and get over my own block! So thanks for sharing your process, it is hugely helpful!
I love your cute dragons!! Thanks for sharing your process, lots of useful tips to try! My problem tends to be similar - I used to work from a reference using it only once (e.g. a photo of a landscape) and when it didn't work I just discarded it and moved to the next one. Lately I am learning to work on the same reference in various ways, first creating compositional thumbnails, value and colour studies, creating more studies in various media, etc.
Hardest lesson most creatives learn! I tell my kids, each of them creative in their own way, that art happens in revision. First draft is for you, revision is for the viewer/reader/listener/etc.