I feel like this is a blog confessional....
"Forgive me, Father. It's been eighteen days since my last doodle."
Childhood memories of mass with my grandmother just bombarded my thoughts. Her accent was sweetly thick and rich, ever comforting and kind. How I wished I had learned how to speak Slovak when I was a child... so I could share more than a name and birthday with her. I was her treasure, and she mine.
I'm still in awe that I am creating these figures.
Short winded because I'm running late to a friend's art show.
I don't think I have been more excited to post a doodle than I am right now for this piece. It's, again, something new for me which isn't something common. I, until last week, had NEVER once drawn a cartoon "human" figure, other than my creatures. So to see these women take form is really remarkable. Given especially that it's coming from my hand onto the screen.
There are some major shifts happening with my style.... It's a rather exciting time for me and my art right now.
I'm trying to remind myself that this is not about making a perfect piece of work. It's not meant for each piece to be perfectly shaped. It's simply meant to allow myself to grow.
However, I still cringe when I know I want to keep working on something yet I know I need to post.
If it weren't for my battery dying on my Companion Hybrid, this wouldn't be posted. There's too much wrong with it. But, this is a growing session. Not a perfection session. (If you only knew how embarrassing this is for me. I'm physically cringing!)
My muse somewhat showed up after all tonight... still toying with figure in the cartoon form.
Ten days straight. I've accomplished more than I thought I would have! Not being hard on myself, but rather thinking realistically that I would have found something (some excuse) to stand in the way of completing this every day. However, it's just so therapeutic. And this tablet helps! One of the best electronic investments have purchased in a long time.
As I flip my tablet over to show Jim what I spent my evening at Starbucks doodling, he notes that all of my doodles lately (not including my "cheat"), have all the same shape. To which he quickly followed up, "I just know that you have more in you, more styles, I just want to see them, too".
I could never express into words the level of love and encouragement that man showers upon me daily. He is never judgmental or condescending, but just the opposite. He will never know how much of a positive influence he has been, how much he has nurtured the passion I had for my trade. For that, I will be forever grateful. He is my world....
I enjoy these lines
I really am stuck on a certain figure type right now....
This piece is a little of a "cheat", if I should be so bold to admit. A "cheat" simply because it isn't a doodle that I completed on the same day as the post. This was the first piece of art that I started when I got this amazing piece of equipment (the Wacom Cintiq Companion Hybrid), one that I continue to edit and edit and edit. I've resolved (slowly), due to this blog, that I just need to do art to be active and not be so concerned what the end result of the piece will be. Rather to enjoy the action of creating.
Nothing much to say other than I feel like I'm already running out of ideas. Which seems nearly impossible. Perhaps I need to change the way I approach this challenge going forward.
Some more of the same. I am fascinated by flying creatures as of late so I am not surprised that those are the things that are being created by my hand. Additionally, I recognize that I have a tendency to have my creatures look to the right. I remember reading something about the significance of this years ago, but the reasoning has left me now.
I'll just leave this doodle here for your eye-consumption.
I'm beginning to see that this daily task will be, in fact, somewhat challenging. Several reasons come to mind, but that's irrelevant at this point because a doodle has been completed!
I think I'm going to continue taking one loosely based element from the previous drawing to incorporate into the next and see where this leads me. So.... enjoy?
Day two brings about a lack of focus on my part. So, I was a bit all over the place even trying to create something.