Drawing Purposefully
I’ve been working like crazy to make sure my new comic has a smooth and successful launch, so I’ve been drawing strips, drawing to scripts, drawing with purpose, for the last two weeks or so.But somehow, sitting down with a big blank document to meander around always produces a lesser-quality drawing. Like, if I don’t know what I mean to be drawing before I draw it, I have a harder time getting proportions right. I suppose that makes sense, but it’s a dissapointing surprise every time.
I’m havin a very hard time with the inking for the comic strip. At first, I thought I wasn’t very nimble with the tablet, and for the first couple of strips I tried some different methods with physical media, and they too came out wobbly and unconfident. I need practice, and it’s a little mortifiying to get that practice in public, but having a reccuring deadline ensures that I’ll actually do it. If I practice drawing in a vaccuum I tend not to draw at all.
That’s part of where the index card project came from. And no, I haven’t been terribly diligent about doing those every day either, but I am doing some, and I think I’ll post them in a gallery of their own once there are several of them. SnoogleZoo is forcing me to draw every day, and that’s what I wanted, so I can relax with the index cards and make them do something a little more fun than random doodles. We’ll see where that goes.
if this pic was supposed to be an example, I wouldn’t worry about it…it’s still cute as heck, and the rest of us can’t tell anything’s off about it…
too cute toooooo cute.
I watched some of this raccoon being drawn and you made it look so easy! SnoogleZoo is looking awesome. I always marvel that you can draw a critter twice and it still looks like the same critter. I can’t even get two stick-figures to look alike /:)