Daily Sketches!?
Okay, so I guess my ‘Daily Sketch’ project is pretty much over… Sorry if you’re disappointed, believe me I am too. I wanted to do a sketch a day for a year, but lately I’ve been lagging far behind. And then I started this ‘Fun Facts’ project, and I’ve been stuck on it for over a week now. Turns out it’s a lot more difficult and painful dissecting my life and condensing it into panels than I thought it would be; every time I sit down to continue that story it makes me feel terrible. So it’s been easier to just not draw anything, and now I’m far enough behind that it really doesn’t make sense to continue pretending I’m on a ‘daily’ schedule.
So after 133 days, I have 112 sketches. That’s not exactly what I was shooting for, but it’s not bad. It definitely ramped up my production level and I learned a lot. And I plan on continuing to post sketches as often as I can, so hopefully not much will change. And since I’m having so much trouble with the ‘Fun Facts’ story, I’m going to shelve it for a bit and start on a new one by Chance the Cool to take my mind off of it for a while.
Hope you continue to enjoy my scribblings. Sorry I’m such a mental case, but thanks for providing free therapy/confessional services, internet!
Booooooo!!!!!!
(that’s “boo” as in “I’m a disapproving audience member,” not “boo” as in “I’m trying to scare you”)
- by illflux on February 5th, 2010 at 8:58 amLet me clarify a bit… I still plan on doing sketches as close to daily as I can, but since I’ve started doing a panel a day, I feel like the quality should be consistently good and it’s obvious that I can’t keep that up on a daily basis. So the daily sketch experiment was a success in my book, because it got me doing work that I’m consistently proud of. But I really hit a major art block with that Fun Facts story, and I’m way behind now. So I didn’t want to just pretend that didn’t happen or feel rushed to make up the difference, so I’ll just stop calling them daily sketches and move on as normal, hopefully. I know it’s still a bit disappointing, because I tend to start things and stop them part of the way through, and I’m sorry. But ultimately I want to just keep going and I need to modify my reality of jumbled up excuses so that it’s conducive to that end.
Or something like that…
- by Webdisaster on February 5th, 2010 at 9:39 am