My pictures go though phases. I draw only stick men for a week, and then suddenly only angry-looking faceless women, or page after page of faces. My writing is the same. A few pages filled with terrible scrawling poetry, followed by pages of diary entries, short story or scene from somewhere, followed by a few chapters of a novel.
I’m unfocused. I have a sketch book full of thoughts yet none of the pictures took more than ten minutes to draw. Even if I had the discipline to stick at a single picture, which I don’t, I would then become panicked with the fear of trying to create perfection and the expectation that comes from actually putting effort in.
Does anybody else have this problem? How do you deal with it?
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Another set of doodles. They aren’t of any particular people and I didn’t have a picture or a model to help me so the various problems with the faces were inevitable. I think you can tell that I learnt to female faces. Each is just a doodle. A couple of minutes with a pen. What do you think?
Kate - Words jumble together trying to describe the object in question: she is clever, but not the cleverest; she is pretty, but not the prettiest; she can write a sentence, or even a thousand sentences strung together –but neither entirely concise nor clear; she is a scientist, inquisitive, precise; she is an artist, open, distracted. She is me.
so cute!
Thanks!
you’re welcome, I used to draw little colourful pastels for the markets and I remember a couple were women’s figures in a love heart shape…I love ART! I Love love
Really? I wouldn’t be able to do that… I need to focus on one or two things at a time and see them through, at least until I’m spent. So not necessarily finish the project before something else, but also not work on everything randomly… I’d go nuts and tie myself into a knot.
It’s awesome how creativity works differently for different people
I generally spend an evening or afternoon on one thing. More than that is unlikely in a row. The thing with drawing is that I don’t put any pressure on myself. I do it when I want, however I want and don’t really worry about creating a finished project. Occasionally, I see a need for something to be finished.
I’m not the sort of person who does everything well before a deadline, or well in advance. I’m somewhere in between, start early, finish just in time.
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