Welcome all. 2020 has been...a year hasn’t it?

Welcome back readers! This time I want to go over a simple but important practice: Sketching. Personally, I’ve always had a very simplified, and even dismissive outlook on sketching. I preferred the stages where the picture was already thought out and on the way to completion, so the inking or coloring phases.

Welcome back! In recent times one of my obsessions have been to push past my own limits as an artist. While I have had a growth mindset since I could remember, it hasn’t been to this effect before. I’ve felt stuck, artistically over the past few years or so. It doesn’t feel great to drag your feet in something that you look to as a creative outlet. I got tired of feeling this way and wanted to do something about it, but it wasn’t until I made a conscious decision to approach the creative process differently, that I was able to grow. These are 3 habits I started to get me to the next level.

This blog is going to be structured in a way where I assign a program for a specific type of person or workflow. I’m doing things like this to avoid a generic “spec war” kind of thing. The reason being that, you can have a spec list but it won’t tell the whole story for someone who is just getting started, or can get into the more specific demands of a niche animator.

The iPad, and this program completely upended my previous pipeline, and in doing so has spoiled me. Now I love the flexibility of digital drawing and animation anywhere I feel like. Since I’ve made these purchases, I’ve been drawing a lot more. In the process of making all of this art, I have also bought a lot of procreate brushes.

Hello readers! This is something I’ve been thinking a lot about, and have wanted to write on this topic for some time. Criticism and how to do it, is something that seemingly no one talks about, and you can tell because there are many people who struggle to inform, and come from an emotional place where their points get garbled up by their incoherence.

So 2020... it has been a year hasn’t it? It really has been a wild ride. I want to take a little time to reflect on all of it. Everything has been moving at such a weird pace that I find myself getting caught up with other things, and neglecting my desire to reflect on just exactly has been happening. I want to talk about what the heck has happened so far in my life, what’s currently happening, and what I think will happen.

Over the last few years, I have been the most productive I have ever been when it comes to creating work. When you count my shorts, illustrations, commissions and the full-time work I’ve done, it becomes pretty clear I’ve been fairly prolific. This level of work comes at a severe cost though, which is last year I went through the most severe burnout I’ve ever had. I’ve wrote about burnout on this blog before, so I won’t go into detail on this post. 

Hello friends! I had the idea for this blog after I started up on several new hobbies. Several you say? Why yes! I’ll also be adding to that as well. Recently, I’ve started to learn how to play and make music, started studying Cinema 4D, and started learning calligraphy and lettering. I’ll talk more about my experiences with these new hobbies in a future blog and as I develop, but the content of today’s post is simple. If you’re new to something, you’re not going to be good at it.