Ever, just out of pure boredom, gone through some of your old artwork and found some gems that you've never even shown anybody? I mean, you're flipping through some old notebooks and you're like "Hmm... crap, crap... crap... HOLY CRAP! Did I draw that? Oh yeah! That looks... pretty good." o.O
Yeah, I do that a lot. I've got this huuuuge folder file thingy, looks kinda like a suitcase. I have a tendency to save every little doodle that ever came out looking... special. I dunno. I also save every notebook I ever doodled in during high school. Which is every notebook I ever had in high school. o__o More doodles than notes, haha.
I have sketchbooks (I've saved those, too) but for some reason, my medium of choice became good ol' school notebooks. It's weird, I don't know why I enjoy drawing in them so much. I found one I bought about a year after high school, has a shiny holographic cover. It was an emotional year for me, 2005 was... and for some reason, the worst emotional turmoil I ever endured just so happened to allow me to spew out some wonderful gems. Are they the best thing ever? No, they're just sketches/doodles, but they make my eyes happy, especially since I haven't been able to draw anything decent on paper since I got into using my tablet so much. XD (I had my old tablet back then, but I really didn't use it quite as much)
I've actually been thinking of re-doing a lot of these drawings on the computer. Refining them, correcting proportional problems, etc... Could be just the thing I need to get me out of this creative block I've been suffering from. I haven't been able to draw any nice, dynamic poses lately, they all come out strange and somewhat mechanical. Maybe working on some things I did "When I was in the right mood" might get me back in the flow of things. What do you think?
This one is back from my Chobits inspired days, which explains the strange ears.
SmilingIdiot
i had allot of drawings inspired my boris vallejo when i was 18 17...around 2003...but i moved and forgot all my drawings and books....when i went to see if they where still there....they were thrown out....maybe its cause i had them in a bag and unorganized....well i never drew for awhile and just did some sketches....i posted some on ngs.....then i started coping using references and wondering how the pros do this shit....blah blah blah....now i sketch on a regular basis
how are your sketches now?....you still have a scanner?.....you should post some....yeah
Chrisseh-chan
I'm too spoiled with CTRL+Z and the lasso select and free transform tools to get much done on paper. One mistake, and you have to erase something and redraw it, even if it does look perfect, but is out of proportion with the rest of the drawing. =/ I've always had trouble drawing things where I want them to go exactly on paper, too. They always end up on a strange spot, too low or too high... feh. I can never plan anything out and then draw it on paper, it's just whatever comes to me. If I think about drawing something, it never turns out. It's always a spur of the moment thing. Weird, eh?
Yes, I have a scanner... a few, actually. o.o;