A Year of Drawing
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It has now been a year since I embarked on my journey to learn how to draw properly and subsequently how to animate. Looking back, I realize there have been a lot of challenges, frustrations and doubts. I think I underestimated the difficulty of this task even though I do like to challenge myself. Trying different styles and techniques has felt like stumbling around in the dark, and nothing has felt as if it has come naturally. The more I draw, the more fault I see in everything. And don’t even get me started on colour…
I finished reading Gabriel Sevin’s “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow,” this week and a quote from the book resonated with me “There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.” Even though I wouldn’t refer to myself as an artist, these words remind me to persevere through self-doubt and keep creating.
I am taking a course in character design in my spare time this spring but I am finding it hard to do it at the pace I first intended. I work full time and in the evenings a lot of the time my brain just feels too tired to manage a video course, more screen time can feel impossible to take on. It is also a challenge to find motivation all on your own at home with no push. But as I look ahead, I’m excited to see where this journey takes me and how my skills will continue to evolve.