I would like to take this week’s blog to document the sketches that were generated for this very project.

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Drawing Probelms

Having drawn since a young age, I have given up on achieving clean line work with pencil or pen. I gotten really serious in to drawing when I was studying cell animation in Canada, I think the drawing lessons and life drawing lessons given by an instructor named Rose changed my life. As mentioned before, I was always in to cartoons and had started drawing up characters since I was in grade 8, but it was when I had a better grasp of the human anatomy that was when I started improving alot.

I always faced a problem in which I have only over come in recent years : I press REALLY hard, it was so bad that 5 pages in a sketch book one could still clearly see the drawing marks I made. Thinking back I think it reflects my psychology a little, I have always presented myself as a really easy going person; but I guess I have certain anxieties and that in the previous post, I have recently cleared a big hurdle having just entered my adult life. Back to the drawing problem though, it was just 3,4 years ago, I started realising that I could not work long hours with my shoulders up tight, back slouched and pencil hard against paper…it took constant reminding myself, but now I have managed to let loose and also discovered that doing pull ups is helping my posture by developing the none existing back mucsles that are giving me necessary support now.

To be honest I do not know if that is a good thing or not, but the point when I only focused on being able to draw and lay ideas down was when I started getting efficient with Adobe Illustrator. I remember having first picked up how to use the software in college and was instantly captivated by it’s many tools and effects, combined with Photoshop I felt like I could achieve everything I have ever wanted to create.

It doesn’t bother me as much not being able to produce good pencil drawing now, for I think that as long as I have ways in producing output as a designer and illustrator that shall be fine. I guess though if I ever have free time in the future a little practicing wouldn’t hurt anyone.

Maturity in Output

It’s amazing to see the output I can manage now with years passingby. It is a very out of body experience to me and I always wonder if it is the same for every designer, artist or illustrator around me. I am not saying I am currently a master at something, but that I certainly have developed a style over the years and would panic less in the face of a project.

As one gets older with life and a job, there is less time to learn new tools though, and to me the simple route to take is to just focus on what I currently do best.

The desire to learn 3D software, to clay more, to learn to mold, Kung Fu lessons….will always be there, but am I lazy? Or is it the fact that in mid 30s, it is just normal for things to stay the same for a while? I guess time will tell.

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