Areas of practice

I finally gave in to my needs rather than my desires. Perhaps I just want to draw and relax, comfortable lines and scribbles without having to think too much, but what I really need is a LOT of dedicated practice on the things that doesn't come naturally. So, noses, skin tones, and dog. 

 

Trying things out

Not quite happy with this, but then again had no real plan when I began. I just needed to sit down and draw, and lacking inspiration of course I can expect to be lacking in performance. I guess all drawing is learning, so it's not wasted completely. Looking forward to doing some studys next week, I want to dig in to skin textures, and lighting. First it's life drawing tomorrow, I hope to be able to produce some sort of sketches that I can upload here.

#drawthisinyourstyle

I thought I'd return to posting images on the interwebs with this exercise: The amazing Crystal Jade's #drawthisinyourstyle challenge. It's on instagram, so this wont be showing up for her, but for me it's just about the practice. Hopefully this is the beginning of more frequent posting. Crystal's kick ass original here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BuPEZEfFx_J/

Winter Nights

And so I start again, with a few more years and a lot of inspiration on my back. Trying to find a suitable style for a few characters. For an entire project actually, but lets start with the characters. I haven't been drawing at all in a few months so feeling a little rusty. However, that feeling I get when I draw, that surge of energy and concentration, is still there luckily. It really is like something's just... right. Like I wonder around life a little broken and then all the sudden I work! I should draw more. I think it's good for my health.

Robots and Sleep

So this weekend I have decided to fully dedicate myself to the wonderful art of being absolutely and utterly lazy. It's harder than most people think, especially if you're a person like me and not skilled at all in doing nothing. As I think of it, ALL my skills basically lies within the doing-things-sphere. Though I mostly find myself doing more than one thing at the same time, and therefore not doing anything particularly well.

One might think that this lazy-weekend I am treating myself to has some sort of relation to the kind of weekend I had LAST week, and to a very large extent yes, I guess it is true. The lazy weekend come as a sort of aftermath. Last weekend was despite unearthly amounts of fun a challenge of the more physical sort. Dancing for hours to awesome music in the ruins of an old fort in the warm an lovely Croatia four days in a row took its tow. I think I might have got five different kinds of colds and also aged approximately five years. But, I must say despite that the hours of intoxicated dance and the hours of sleep I now enjoy are on the opposite side of the spectrum I cant shake the feeling that it's still all... well. shamefully enjoyable. It's on the same treat-level so to speak. When it comes down to it I don't really feel like I deserve it, but I'm too comfortable to care. So I slept, and slept, then I ate some really unhealthy food, and slept some more. Then I read a book, then I ate some toasts and  ice cream. And between all these glorious occupations I managed to dabble a little with the Robot game me n bro' are making. I made a sketch of a "crusher", meant to be an level asset/enemy in the first level set. Oh and I am currently sketching on the background for it. With Nick Drake singing softly out of my speakers, a fourth serving of ice cream in front of me and a large cup of matcha tea it doesn't really feel like I'm doing anything. I still fell pretty lazy. But I will have to start to speed up. My aim for this fall is to have a prototype of the game ready. I want to have a product in hand, if maybe not entirely finished, before the end of the year. So, that's why I now will finish the ice cream, drink some more tea, and thoroughly enjoy this treat of a weekend.

10th of May

So, Trädgården in Stockholm posted a little competition. Draw/illustrate in any way the date of the 10th of May and then post it on Instagram with the hashtag #tradgardensthlm, and you can win a card granting you entrance for the entire summer for you and a friend. Well, I DO kinda hang out there anyways, and competitions are a fun way of making me get a move on and create stuff. I'll try to make a few variations. Did this real quick after my evening run/shower/OCDcleaning the entire flat, I might as well post it here.

The Plan

The plan is, and have always been, to eventually take over the world and make myself Rave Lord of the universe.

Yeah, I got sick and tired of boats and pirates. I'm still doing it, just needed a break tonight. Treat myself so to speak.

Doing an Art Nouveau take on it. Only spent tonight so far and I'm really not finished, it's supposed to have a frame.

EDIT: Started on the frame, still have the bottom bit to do, maybe add some text.