Itâs that all one line? Thatâs dope either way
Thank! wrote a more detailed comment to another reply. I lifted the pen a few times. But Iâm trying to rush the drawing without thinking so I was putting down as much as I could with a single line.
Is this done without raising the pen? Itâs an interesting and cool piece of art.
No I raised my pen a few times. I was trying to force myself to draw as quickly as possible, so not lifting my pen trying to put down as much as possible with one line. I was also laying the weight of my hand heavily on the pen so it left thick shaky line and I was enjoying the aesthetic it produced, it also helped me care less about the lines being perfect and letting go.
Honestly Total etch A Sketch vibes. Even besides that though I absolutely love it.
If this is you not being perfect, then you need to keep this up. This is awesome!
I have found in lifeâŚthat I still get grumpy when stuff doesnât hit that space between when I wanted versus what I ended up with. But in all honesty, doing ANYTHING at all when it comes to creating - is about 20x better than doing nothing at all. And with stuff like this, itâs always a study. Right? Youâre studying form, youâre studying motion. I always find these kind of doodles (sketches) to be incredibly meditative. But not just that, you know I have taken doodles that look like a booty on a stick and just from these abstract ideas turned them into full blown digital pieces. So I have found likeâŚas long as you know whatâs going on (sloppy handwriting person here) - pen to paper youâre doing exactly what you need to be doing.
But you know, love the wabi sabi. Feed them pathways. And if you have a direction you want to move your art towards do some studies. Which is like - collect actual pictures of artist you dig, break them down (you can literally sketch over them - copy them freehand - create your own renditions or just literally STARE THE HEY out of them and just figure out what you like about them). But celebrate the act, because I promise you while anyone alive can create in some form - most of us sure as hey donât. So you know, do you - love you =)!
You got this mâperson!
This is a great comment, I think a lot of people could take something good out of it not just for art but any craft in general. A lot of what you described here actually falls in line with my philosophy.
I see practicing drawing the same way as brushing my teeth. Itâs not always a particularly pleasurable experience and a lot of times I donât feel like doing it but I still do it every day. I know itâs hard for a lot of people but sometimes itâs frustrating when things dont come out how we wantt them, I decided to embrace the âimperfectionsâ as you said, and I noticed that my desire for technical perfection was actually stifling my style. When I stopped caring I noticed there was more raw style that comes through. Which is something I always admired about the less technical artist, there is more imagination and aesthetic.
Big thanks, and big love =)! I have always loved the act of drawing, and have always participated in it. I unfortunately came down with something that affected my motor skills and made it so much harder to get pen to paper. I used to be able to work on very intricate designs, and as an individual whoâs incredibly emotion-based I always tried to take what I saw in my heart/mind and transpose it. And while I have never been as technically apt as some of my artist friends, I feel like I did a solid job in conveying a->b (as I wrote up there). But as my physical body degraded, I almost stopped creating all together. Because I stopped being able to capture what I used to be able to do. And it hurt, like physically hurt - and it really frustrated me. Because I felt lost in a way, because I couldnât meet my own âstandardsâ which I think now are just kinda anal and to be honest perhaps more so some crappy perfectionist bullshit thatâs enforced by society.
We always want that âAâ grade, that piece that makes people âengageâ that shows off our talent and reeks of some kind of unobtainable dedication to form. But really, I feel like that takes away from the actual joy of creation. Which at the end of the day, should be for you - or whomever youâre actually trying to speak to. You know, be it in presents or statements. But like that social media tokens jam, thatâs just likeâŚsome shallow-bull. It took a long time for me to be kind enough to myself that I allowed myself to just be. You know, I make what I make even if itâs crusty. Even if itâs not picture perfect. Even if I am drawing a face and it doesnât exactly align. Cause Iâm doing it, and like I said - doing it is way better than not. And Iâve made some really nice stuff since, and even made some people I love happy. Cause I can still do it, I just you know - might take longer or just let stuff go.
I switched to ink a long time ago, because I felt like I would always hit pencil with an eraser until I got it right or destroyed the image. What are you going to do with ink? That stuff sticks. You gotta carry on. Thatâs why I was happy when I saw you worked with pen. Itâs like just leaning into that âfuck itâ energy =)!
And yeah, I totally know what you mean. I love novice art 10/10 because I think itâs less on rails. Because it comes without the expectation of form, and just allows people to explore and express themselves. I also always figured if you told 100 people to draw an egg, youâd get 100 different eggs even though itâs just an oval. And itâs why I love talking to folks on the whole, because we can all live in similar ways but have such different pieces of the puzzle.
Also I had an art teacher once who forced us to draw a nude, then erase it - then draw it again, then erase it, then draw it again - all with cascading forms. Ended up like some kind of cubist nightmare but it was beautiful because I think she was trying to express to us not to sweat the details or the mistakes but to enjoy the process and form. So big love to her too =)!
