#this post reminds me to fill up my sketchbook with unattractive and awkward blobs
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#I blame calarts #not the school really. but an unfortunate side effect of the application process #calarts requires your 'sketchbook' to be kind of an art piece #as per tradition people post videos of their calarts sketchbooks whether its accepted or rejected #but since we live in Video Media Land now those videos get really popular. cause they're cool and pretty! #but now there's tons of videos all over instagram of people trying to meet this presentable standard #and it's lead to people thinking that's what ALL sketchbooks should look like (x)
"It took me TWO years to finish this sketch book!" Well that's cuz you're not fuckin sketching. Those are fully painted pieces dawg that's a renderedbook. I've gone through four sketchbooks in my off time this year alone I just draw stupid faces and shit for fun. pussy up like the rest of us and start drawing stick figures with guns
#this post reminds me to fill up my sketchbook with unattractive and awkward blobs#sometimes you have a Feeling in you and you want to get it out#and 1 out of 100 times that Feeling might turn into a full Drawing#but most of the time it's going to stay a half-formed pile of lumps with a cute face and literally six swoopy curves approximating the body#(staring at a sketch of owl house willow right now that is exactly that)#it's a storage space for IDEAS and *that's* really important#interestingly some of the shitty drawings that i'm proudest of are all the thumbnails that turn into drawings of bigger scenes#i *love* being able to retrace my thoughts and see how a concept developed over shitty iterations#don't let yourself be so stymied by the self-created spectre of 'perfection' that you never put anything into your sketchbook#realised this past week that i had - for some reason - created & upheld a secret rule of 'no colour and nothing except ink & pencil'????#WHY#broke out a coloured pencil to map out some plans for patchworking together a shirt + pants (listen There Is A Vision)#went through three sketches#no rules#it feels good to look at this page - things that once lived inside you have been given form and colour and solidity#reblogs
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