I've had blogs before but I'm useless at actually updating them but, y'know, New Year's resolutions and all that!
This blog will primarily be a place for me to dump my artwork as another New Year's resolution of mine is to actually do some art work.
About me: Well, I'm 26 (almost 27 /cry) and have been drawing since I could hold a pencil without sticking it in my eye. I've always been told I was a good artist by other people but never really seen it myself - I'm quite the perfectionist and if a drawing isn't going well my old habit was to scrap it and never think of it again. If a drawing didn't look on paper exactly how it did in my head first time with no planning, it was binned. I see the futility of this, now.
In recent months I learnt something important - nothing I do will ever be perfect. But that shouldn't dissuade me from trying anyway! With that in mind I've decided to reprogramme the way I think about drawing! It's going to be hard - I've got a good 20 odd years of bad wiring up there!
I've never really had my own style. Does anyone? Everyone copies off someone else and modifies it slightly to suit themselves. Personally I think if you get to that stage and then someone copies you, you've hit drawing nirvana. You have become one with the pencil. I'm not even close! My greatest inspirations are the works of Ben Caldwell, Sean Galloway, Bruce Timm and Mike Mignola. I love their simplistic yet strong and recognisable styles and I can only hope to be even a smidgen as good as them one day!
In recent years my creativity has been all but sapped away. Sad but true. Dull jobs that don't inspire, growing up and getting all 'serious' about life with mortgages and bills - these are the things that have conspired against me but I say no more! It's time to FIND THE FUN again!
Someone once said to me you have 1000 bad drawings inside of you, screaming to get out, before you'll get to the good stuff. I'm not sure what number I'm on (should I have been counting?) but I've noticed my art is getting better, which is all kinds of awesome. It's not where I want it, but it's on the way and starting the journey is as important as reaching the destination!
So! Without further ado or stalling for time, I present to you, whoever you are, my blog/sketchpad and my work!
Oh and thanks for reading. ;)
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