Hello people! It's another week and there is no shortage of things to do around here. I didn't put up a blog post on Friday AND.....I haven't done my daily sketches for two days now. Yep......two days in a row, no sketches. I have been that busy with other things. Not to mention that I DO sometimes need to take a break.
Down time is hard for me. I have a tendency to fidget. I also have a tendency to really immerse myself in my projects. I hit the ground running and I can be unstoppable. Sometimes, it does take a train to hit me.
In fact, I will just go ahead and officially announce that my daily sketches are probably going to be a bit more sporadic from here on. Not to worry though, I will never stop sketching, it's what I do, I will just slow down some. Maybe two or three per week and they will still be numbered and go towards my goal of 365, quick, little sketches.
The reason?........I need to concentrate on my main work and less on what to sketch every day. I have commissions to work on, personal work and the business end of things to do as well, (I'm desperately trying to get a website up and running), and I'm not being as efficient as I would like with those. So yeah. Other than that everything is going well.
Come this October, I will in fact be doing a month long art project that I am really excited about. It is a project that is shared with other artists all over the world. I will post more info about all that later when it gets closer in.
I am also learning this new digital medium. I have joined in a couple discussions on-line recently that pertain to the idea that digital art, is not really art. I'm having a hard time with that concept. I'm finding that digitally manipulated images are just as complicated and require just as much skill as traditional art does. Now, keep in mind, I'm still very new at this medium, it's only been a week but, I don't see much difference.
I did this.........It's my first one......by hand, the only difference was that my drawing came up on my monitor screen and not on a piece of paper. It's a bit shakily drawn as it had quite a different feel to it and takes getting used to but, it was drawn, by me, not the computer, none the less.
I used a stylus, that looks and behaves just like a pen, you can see it below and I STILL needed to be able to draw, manually, by hand.
To me...........that's art in every sense of the word. Granted, there are other forms of digitally created art such as photo manipulation which is more like creating a collage by taking bits and pieces of photos and combining those to create a new image. I like that approach too and it has it's place as well. It's all art people. And you know what's really cool about digital art? There is no waste. No wasted paint, no wasted paper, no wasted lead, I have re-painted and messed around with that same Cardinal drawing above for days now and changed it up a dozen times over and it hasn't cost me any supplies. I can play with this same image forever. If I don't like what Iv'e done.....I just hit the "undo" button. Can't do that with traditional art. And there is no buying art supplies either with digital. Although, I happen to like collecting art supplies. I'm a pack rat and unashamed of it when it comes to art supplies.
That's whats going on in my studio. Oh........and yes, I am still giving away an original piece of art. Very soon. Again, I will announce that as well. I am going to go grab something to eat and then get busy. Later everyone!
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