Beautiful Dreams Patterns

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Just a reminder, if you like my art, please reblog it for traction.

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This beauty will be up for sale at the end of the week 30x30 canvas $850

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A little progress today

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Current state of the painting I'm working on

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Just a fungi

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Another doll blank. Who wants to guess who I'm making?

[punkitt-is-here]

"It took me TWO years to finish this sketch book!" Well that's cuz you're not fuckin sketching. Those are fully painted pieces dawg that's a renderedbook. I've gone through four sketchbooks in my off time this year alone I just draw stupid faces and shit for fun. pussy up like the rest of us and start drawing stick figures with guns

[justasillynerd]

I can't express how damaging this has been to young artists.

Of the many things I struggled to explain to my students "Your sketch book is mainly for practicing techniques, practicing new things, NOTES, and dumb doodles that come to your mind that can inspire you later or help lead you to a good idea. It is NOT where you draw you final pieces. Please kill that darling," is pretty high on the list.

I legit started calling it a "first draft" book to activate prior knowledge from English because influences have destroyed the concept of sketchbooks.

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Just a quick sketch of some of my roses

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Just a sketch of my oldest fur baby

[winonaparadise]

I got art block what should I do

[dduane]

Take a day off and see if you feel like making art the next day. Or the day after that.

Still nothing? Then sit down and make a piece of crap art.

I mean, CRAP. Make it as bad as you possibly can. Screw everything up! Don't just break the rules: jump on them from a height and mock every one as you come down and stomp them into mush. Challenge yourself to be the worst you can possibly be.

...No, not like that! Worse!!

WORSE THAN THAT!

Good!... There you go.

...And at the end of it, guess what? You'll still have made art.

It may indeed be terrible art, of no damn use to any other being on the planet. But you will nonetheless have asserted your claim to the right to create art, even when the creative process isn't working particularly well.

And just keep on doing this until the juices start flowing properly again. Because, pretty much inevitably, they will.

Disclaimer: do I use this approach? Oh God, yes! You should see my bad pages. (Or on second thought, no you shouldn't. I like the Hague a lot, but not that part of it.)

But sometimes the road to making good art (waving at @neil-gaiman) runs through the territory inhabited by making bad art... and sometimes willingly, shamelessly, hilariously bad art. The very act can be surprisingly cleansing.

Fear nothing. Make crap art, and let it set the stage for the good stuff. Then laugh at it, and keep on going.

Hope this helps!

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Lord Froggary in progress

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Quick sketch of my chonky cat

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Happy valentines day

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Sometimes when you paint you have to tell yourself trust the process a lot

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A friend of mine passed recently so I painted her doing her fave thing. I'll be gifting this to her delightful spouse.

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I don't do watercolor portraits often but they are quicker then acrylic and I only have until the 26th to complete it

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Final product. Just a pretty night sky by request from my eldest.