Hey All!

So I spent most of the day in a zombie state, because I stayed up too late last night. But wanted to at least make an effort to draw today. I started coloring in the base colors of my Squirrel pattern… but I don’t know, there is still something I’m not liking about it. I like all the elements individually, but this orientation of them just isn’t clicking with me.

Here’s what I’ve got from today…

The first one is what I colored today… the second one is an idea I had… “what if I take away these two elements?”. There is just something about the oval around the squirrel that is taking away from the ogee pattern. And I feel like I’ve gone about this whole thing all wrong. But rather than tearing it all down tonight, I’ll look at it again tomorrow and see if I still feel like it isn’t working and maybe I’ll have an idea of how to make it feel better to me.

In other news…

I was giving someone in my art club a little pep talk. I told them about how this month I’ve been blogging nearly daily whatever I’ve drawn, regardless of the state it’s in. That I’m not making myself finish a project each day, I’m just showing my progress.

Afterwards, it hit me… “Wait, that’s what I should be doing during Inktober!”

I have spent the last several years trying to come up with an idea, draw it, ink it, paint it, then blog about it, every day during October… and it is just too much pressure, I end up burned out in November and don’t draw at all. Which is not the point at all. The point is to get better at inking (or whatever I want to learn that year). Not produce perfect works daily out of thin air.

So I hope you have been enjoying seeing how I think and progress with a project. How I suddenly change course and work on something else. And generally, let my muse have fun. When it stops being fun, I’m doing it wrong.

Ok, that’s all I have for today. See you tomorrow?

Until next time…

~nic