I wonder if I'll ever develop a special knack for drawing scenes with people in them. I am right now without a cartoon character style that comforts me. When I try to draw people non- realistically, I can but it feels like pretending... and it's not particularly efficient. Like walking with high-heels. I have been a rubber-soled sneaker-wearing chica for so long, that I totter around like a five year-old playing dress-up when I finally try to sport something with a little height.While there is nothing wrong with drawing realistically, it limits me some and really keeps me from expressing a lot of ideas visually, for fear that I won't get it exactly right. That pattern needs to stop. I become paralyzed to the point of not even being able to let myself produce anything, afraid of my own imperfection. This blog might help wrench it out of me.
For now, I won't make a big deal out of it. I'll just draw what comes naturally and then ease my way into the cartooning pool, toe by stylized toe.
2 comments:
Hi Kristy! So fun that you're blogging, welcome to the club. As far as drawing goes, I think too many people search for a style. Or even force a style upon themselves, because its popular. Your style should come naturally---it should simply be the way you most enjoy drawing. And then the more you work at it, the better you get.
A buddy of mine used to be obsessed with an artist who used to draw a simple four panel (divided square) comic everyday. The rules for the artist were simple, it didn't have to be good, he couldn't spend all night on it, he just had to draw something before going to sleep. Sort of the illustrators equivalent of a writers stream of consciousness exercise.
If you want to cartoon, you have to start cartoon. Journey of a thousand miles and all that. I would love for you to get into that style.
-skline
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