Becoming a Better Artist

This isn't the blog I wanted to write today. But someone distracted me while I was outlining my SciFi movie essay so I'm still not done, but hopefully that will be something that interests you guys. For the meantime, I've started following some really cool blogs and I noticed that some of you draw. I started as a fine artist and I majored in film making when I went to college, but what I could never do was draw the things in me head, or draw digitally like in photoshop and everything. Holy crap was I always bummed out that I just couldn't do it. I thought I was broken and stupid. But you know...it was something I wanted to do and I decided if I sucked, then I sucked but I was still going to do it. So I draw. Often. Always trying to figure out a style. And well... let me just post some things I guess.

The first 6 are self portraits. 1. Is from 2013 before I graduated. 2. is from mid 2014. (there were way more in between but i can't find the files because I'm messy when it comes to saving things in the right location) 3. is from maybe this Feb, and 5. was around March of this year, trying a new style (it wont fit right unless its in that spot hence the break in order). So 4 is from April and 6 is from May, roughly. I started trying new styles and techniques to draw something I was familiar with, my own face! I used new brushes for each image. A new style. And just general ass busting drawing other things. It took time and effort and dedication. And finally, we get the fine piece. The first image from a comic I'm writing.The first thing I've ever made that I feel represents my traditional art and is worthy of print. And getting HER done was no easy feat. I have tons and tons of sketches of her that I've been doing for months in different styles similar to my portraits and just always trying something new over and over again. 

Whether you like my style or not is completely up to you. I'm not happy with some of the results, but you can see the improvement. And that's the point. Keep going and you WILL improve. Pick something you're familiar with and apply new ideas as you draw it each time, and you will learn and get better, then apply that to other things. And just keep going. I'm by no means a digital art pro. I'm a swell painter and portrait artist, and this has always baffled me and I have miles and miles to go before I'm really truly worth a damn. But you have to practice, and I promise, just draw something today, and keep working to improve with the next and the next, and in a few months, or maybe a year if you want to see it be a drastic change, you will see a difference. 

For art tips that really helped me through the years, I recommend the youtube channels Drawing With Jazza and Sycra.

If you wanna see more of my nonsense art, I have an artist page here.