Really canāt wait any longer without creating anything.
Having a lots of thoughts is a good thing but itās nothing if those thoughts only stay as thoughts.
This Year I hope itās a year of production. I think every creative will related to this fear towards our own work; the fear of not good enough and reach perfection. However, I found this sort of thoughts is stopping me from making things and I want to change this. The first step I took is to acknowledge that my work is indeed not good enough, but then I learn from it, analyze and document it as I am my own experiment subject. Then carry on.
So here it is the first project I want to do the fist month of 2018. Drawing 30 portrait of the great artists that I admire. Without thinking too much I have started the project 16th of December last year.
It has to be tangible with sort of framework and full of fun!
Brief: 30 Artist, Designers, Exemplars portraits.
Deadline: 20th _ January _ 2018
Media: Pencil, ink, brush, milk pen, graphite.
Aim: Practice drawing, and mind.
I try to stick to mono chrome and only spend thirty minutes on each drawing to see if it works better under some limitation.
Today is actually the day I reach half of the number, and it should be a good time to document the process and thoughts I have so far.
See the on going drawing please visit my InstagramĀ
https://www.instagram.com/chenyaliillustration/
Since I am using pencil to perform most of the time, I found myself holding the pencil with different position to get different stroke, shape, texture on the paper.Ā
The subject I am drawing is a stranger but not a stranger at the same time, the relation is I know them and they donāt know me.Ā
While I am drawing their faces, I also wonder howās their life been, and think about all the information or story I know about them. And maybe subconsciously, I also project them on myself to become the pros like them. Just like they are actually encouraging me not to give up.Ā
Ā Itās really hard to overhear the inner judgemental voice and the way I fight agains it is to post it out on my Instagram and keep drawing the next day.Ā
Ā In order to have a bit more fun in the result, I need to add a bit thoughts on contrast, depth, composition.Ā
And I want to add black colour pencil and crayons into the next 15 drawings.Ā Ā
I had some good time and bed time while creating, drawing has been a very intuitive to me. So sometimes I like some results over then others. And it very good now I found one of my problem is unsteady. Ā
Kind of want to change the name of the project into The Conversation with Pros.
