Progression Practice

God, my art is shitty. People have the tendency to, once they recognize they are damn right shitty at something, either give up all together or try to improve themselves.

Anytime I doodle something, I almost always shut down and quit after I see the outcome of my scribblings (as shown as the catastrophe that is the blue doodle above).

This is a little exercise I do once in a while to reset that attitude: doodle something on photoshop that usually looks crappy, browse a few pages of tumblr, return to re-draw the original doodle on a separate layer, browse a few more pages, and then return once more to try to salvage twenty minutes of shitty drawing. The result is something that is not great, but significantly better than the first doodle.

The above are sketches each done in four minute bursts, each separated by two minutes.

I keep delaying any self-improvement when it comes to drawing, and I am going to try my best to restart my interest and really improve myself. When I look at any of my old art, I cringe—not because I've come so very far away from that, but because I haven't. I have improved, but not nearly as much as I could have if I had put in solid effort. So this is where everything changes.

It's time to wake myself up from years of artistic slumber.