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Which day do you prefer character design or environment art days?
Had a rough Monday where none of my character sketches felt right, but then Tuesday everything clicked and I cranked out three good environment pieces. Do you guys thrive on the pressure of a bad day or ride the wave of a good one?
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david56222d ago
Bad days teach you more. Did you learn anything from those failed sketches?
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sean78222d ago
Did you ever try just doing thumbnail sketches before the full drawing? When I'm having a bad day with my art, I force myself to slow down and do a bunch of tiny quick sketches first. It takes the pressure off because nobody sees those little thumbnails but me. I keep a separate sketchbook just for the rough stuff, the messy ideas that might not work. The bad sketches taught me that sometimes you need to get the ugly ideas out first before the good ones have room to show up. Once I started that habit, my failures became just steps toward the something better.
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verawhite19d ago
I read an article once that said most professional artists do at least 20 thumbnails before starting a real piece. @sean782 that separate sketchbook idea is smart. I have a cheap spiral notebook I use for the same thing. Last week I drew 15 thumbs of a tree before one of them clicked. The rest looked like garbage but that one good sketch saved me hours of frustration later. Sometimes you have to let the bad ones happen so the good one can show up.
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