Daily post?
Early post today since I want to be free this afternoon to go meet my new niece/nephew (?) at the hospital. Yay!Anyway, here's a small part of a concept drawing I started working on today. I've been feeling a bit hedged in lately by trying to finish decent post-able art everyday in the 60 min I can give myself for the daily blog. I'm debating not necessarily posting daily, but instead posting nicer stuff once or twice a week.
What do people think of non-daily posts with higher quality art?
Comments
Grateful, anyhow, that you're sharing your work in this form — regardless of which way you proceed. (And would bet most of your readers feel about the same.)
personally, i think it's up to however you feel most comfortable. i'll come visit regularly no matter what you decide. :)
the process posts are nice though. and i tend to really enjoy your "simpler" drawings. but i wouldn't mind some sporadic posting if it meant something worth waiting for. how's THAT for pressure? :D
congrats on the new new niece/nephew! hope the dragons don't whisk them away!
I would have to agree that you might start posting "stages" of your work, and not feel that you must finish everything that you show us. I would love to see your fantastic final work, but I would miss the daily goodness that I have grown so fond of. Thumbnails, roughy roughs, scribbles, marker doodles, scratchels, and napkin drawings are all welcome.
You have to be comfortable with whatever the situation may be. I just want to see your work... :)
Jeremy
Sometimes, when I see just finished pieces, i tend to forget how much love and talent has gone into it.
Seeing works in progress, followed by the final pieces is a great way to go for me.
Then again, if you had finished pieces everyay, I wouldn't mind at all either
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As far as NOT posting everyday.
I think that's totally fine.
Your blog is like your sketch journal.You should feel comfortable with it, don't let it be a hindrance or that thing you HAVE to do.
If you did, you might lose that beautiful spark you have in your art.
That's just my two cents
I'm just a visual arts fan and wannabe painter, but I am a real guitarist, so I'll make a musical analogy. Jimi Hendrix studio albums all tend to be extremely produced - tons of overdubs and effects tweaking, and just doing things that can only be done in the studio. His live albums are extremely raw - just a classic power trio playing their hearts out.
They're both great - sometimes it's cool to hear Jimi layer six guitar parts in the studio, and sometimes it's cool to hear him make the same song work with one guitar live. In the same way, your 'finished' pieces are cool, but your sketches are just as cool, and not lower quality. They're really just a different expression of the same piece.
So, if you go to just occasional posts, I still hope that some of them are sketches, and not finished pieces.
My two cents, so do whatever you want - it's your blog! (As long as you keep posting something!)
It used to be such a rarity to see new sketches and works from artists you admire. You had to remember to pick up their new book or find some piece from a fan site.
But now I get to see so many great artists produce something new every day. And I find it very exciting to see a loose sketch or phone doodle, because you get an insight to the artist's process.
It's tough to put something that's not "finished" out for the whole world to see, but those are the really cool things to see! Post as much as you can, but don't be afraid to post something that is a work in progress.
I didn't mean to give the impression I'd no longer post sketchy stuff or early stages of work. But with a bit more leeway drawings would not be limited to one character as they generally are now, I'd be able to do more environmental work and it would give me the freedom to explore drawing subjects that are new to me... knowing that I'd have time to do several sketches to get it right :)
I will definitely still post very regularly. I like having a deadline of sorts. I will also keep up my hour story roughs, because those are meant to be story-board like :)
i dont want to even think about that...
Me, I just like drawings. And yours, rough and/or finished, are awesome. Rock on, gal.
Eric.
PS - this close-up of the image is great. The proportions are different and unconventional and I'm a proponent of both. Her eyes are how I would draw them (which I've been ribbed about in the past as being less 'predator' and more 'prey'). And the wider shot in your latest post is a dream. I hope this current project is consistently keeping you invigorated. Like I said, rock on.