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last year's art prompts
Oct. 27th, 2023 07:18 pmSo, I'm not only not managing any of the October art prompts for this year, I've only done about a third of them from last October.
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drawesome put out a list of October prompts and I wrote down all the prompts in my sketchbook in Sharpie so I'd definitely do them and then ... didn't. I did days one and two mostly on time as I recall. And then day three took longer than I expected and I fell behind on four and with four still incomplete, I more or less had an artistic breakdown on day 5. (The subject was "dark" and oof, I took that in directions that I should not have and it turned into one of those rage scribble pages.)
Anyway, a year and a bit later, I've skipped to prompt #22 "symmetry".
I actually drew the basic shape of the owl last year, but all of the coloring and detail work was this year and it took me several days. I don't know what possessed me to think that full color marker drawings were a good idea for a daily drawing challenge. I should approach that with ideas for quick line drawings. Maybe a quick ink wash if I insist on shading. This is not the media for fast, especially not fast and consistent for an entire month.
Here's the not-terribly-symmetrical drawing:
I didn't put a lot of effort into making this actually symmetrical, because I planned a digital edit from the beginning. In hindsight, I should not have gone for a side highlight on the eyes, because I made myself much more work with the eyes in the digital edits than was necessary. (But, obviously, there were a *lot* of things I would have done differently if I had a time machine.)
I was so optimistic last year when
drawesome put out a list of October prompts and I wrote down all the prompts in my sketchbook in Sharpie so I'd definitely do them and then ... didn't. I did days one and two mostly on time as I recall. And then day three took longer than I expected and I fell behind on four and with four still incomplete, I more or less had an artistic breakdown on day 5. (The subject was "dark" and oof, I took that in directions that I should not have and it turned into one of those rage scribble pages.)Anyway, a year and a bit later, I've skipped to prompt #22 "symmetry".
I actually drew the basic shape of the owl last year, but all of the coloring and detail work was this year and it took me several days. I don't know what possessed me to think that full color marker drawings were a good idea for a daily drawing challenge. I should approach that with ideas for quick line drawings. Maybe a quick ink wash if I insist on shading. This is not the media for fast, especially not fast and consistent for an entire month.
Here's the not-terribly-symmetrical drawing:
I didn't put a lot of effort into making this actually symmetrical, because I planned a digital edit from the beginning. In hindsight, I should not have gone for a side highlight on the eyes, because I made myself much more work with the eyes in the digital edits than was necessary. (But, obviously, there were a *lot* of things I would have done differently if I had a time machine.)
