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What Happens Next by blurthefur

So there we have it. 100 daily doodles.
It's not hard for me to draw often, but to go through the effort of coloring every one, to upload every day. That required some effort.
The goal of the daily doodles were to practice my main 3 weaknesses:

  1. Discipline. I have far too little of it. I have the type of discipline to abstain from something for a long time. The discipline of restraint. What I lacked was the discipline of maintaining a consistent work ethic. To do something everyday even if some days it seemed like a chore. Something that separates an artist from an hobbyist is the ability to work sans inspiration. To create even when it isn't easy.

  2. Consistency. Consistency in style. Consistency in lines. Yeah, I had some off days. Some of those doodles look like shit, but hey. Doing it everyday meant finding a rhythm. A system for coloring, for lines, and naturally getting better and more efficient with the next image. In the process (among the non daily doodle drawings as well) I was trying to find a style that fit me. I think something did indeed form.

  3. Time management. Man, do I suck with this one. I am forever distracted. Things come up. I've never been able to hold down a steady schedule with anything because something always breaks it. WELL NOT THIS TIME. Even if it meant staying up until 3am, the image had to be up before I could go to bed. I was essentially punishing myself for not working on it early. Although I did still end up often uploading around the midnight mark, it wasn't 3am at least... It certainly kept the daily doodle on my mind more often. Time management became more important.

So, what now? Well, I still intend on uploading daily. It just won't have some number or whatever in front. Could be an icon, could be a painting, could be whatever. Afterall, some days I was uploading 2-3 images. MUST DRAW EVERYDAY.

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Anyway, the holidays are among us and the year is almost over. I've been thinking over the idea of doing some kind of art freebie thing for those of you who've stuck around, commented, been a friend to me or ThornDracorn, etc. for this first year I've been practising and derping around in my art. I don't think I'll get another chance to be so generous in the next year when I start taking commissions, afterall. (That'll be starting in February-March 2016, by the way!)
First thing's first. Naturally I'll tackle those those 5 remaining freebies who've been kinda sitting around listed there on my FA page for months. Took my sweetass time because "hey, free. I can do that whenever." I'll get those done before the New Year. :)
In the days where I'm not bound by those commitments, I'll be making giftart.

On Wednesday December 23rd I'll be streaming in the evening. Probably around 7PM EST. I've never done this for people aside from ThornDracorn and E-Mander but I'm making a special exception this time around. It'll probably be nice and easy things like free head/bust shots but who knows~
Here's hoping nothing comes up.
(Also, not sure if it'll be drunk or sober. There will be lots of Christmas music though!)

Until next time~

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