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How do you find the inspiration to make art? 9 Years, 4 Months ago
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Hiya,
As an artist I've always been very curious about how other artists get their inspiration to draw and to start for example a new piece of art or pieces of artwork.
So I have a few questions for artists out there.
- How do you get inspired?
- When you have inspiration, how do you get started drawing it out?
- Do you have a process you go through to draw i.e. sketch, clean-up lineart and colour?
- How long does it take you to complete an art piece?
- How often do you draw?
- What tools do you use i.e - a tablet or traditional media or both?
For myself:
- How do you get inspired?
Anything really. I've taken to offering to draw art for a few dokugans to practise, for example on drawing people. Something I'm fairly weak at but hoping to improve.
- When you have inspiration, how do you get started drawing it out?
I sketch out stuff on a page, using in pencil, and then I alter the sketch using rough and dirty outlines, without any details, until I'm happy with the result. Once the idea is finalised I start roughing in base details that will become lineart.
- Do you have a process you go through to draw i.e. sketch, clean-up lineart and colour?
Yup, I sketch ideas, takes a while, and then once I'm happy I rough-in the base lineart, usually just blank shapes of the overall image, before adding in final details, or rather, sorting out what the final detailing will be. I usually do this as a part by part process. For example. I might do all the clothing first, the face next i.e. eyelashes, pupils, lips etc, and then move onto the hair. So the drawing gets finished in steps, one part at a time.
I do all this before colouring, if I colour at all.
- How long does it take you to complete an art piece?
Depends on the complexity. If its a detailed piece with lots of stuff, like hair, armour, scales, etc, it could take weeks or even months since I obsess over small details. And because in RL I'm not always motivated to draw, so I can go days without doing anything, or do a few little things over a week or so when I find time.
My motto for art is like for when I write fiction.
The piece is finished when it tells me its finished, not when I think its finished.
It's one of those odd 'intuition' things.
I just know when the time is right.
- How often do you draw?
Not as often as I should, sadly. I can only really draw when I'm motivated, or when I really want to finish part of an artwork, but that usually happens only when I know what the detailing for that part or piece is for example: Scales on a piece of armour, symmetry, etc, it's very much a work in progress at times.
- What tools do you use i.e - a tablet or traditional media or both?
Pencil on paper, and a tablet more recently. I also use a lot of references whether that be photos, or even costuming or even the armour like on movie characters. It depends on what I'm drawing.
That's me.
Thanks.
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