Jingsel

We all know good advice - but unfortunately we seldom grasp their true value until we come to the same conclusion on our own. "Art needs a lot of practice" is such a thing. You know and won't deny it, but if you have a specific high goal, you are sometimes too fixed to that specific point - and too impatient totake our time to reach it. Long story short: Scetching really helps! Especially if you want to draw a certain character. If you create whole scenes out of stick-figures or randomly crazy scetches that look like your pencil had a drink too much last night doesn't matter. The purpose is not only to improve your drawing skills - very very

Sometimes you just have to write something down, even if it isn't a least bit reasonable, don't you? Anyway, deviantart gave me a heart-beating day of fangirlism-overdose, I suppose. First, I couldn't go to sleep until I had finished my cuty-Mewtwo-picture. I have some way to go still, but I think I'm advancing. During the day, endless hours of browsing through artwork concerning some of my fangirl-targets followed. I'm still a bit "depressed" when I cross so many amazing work, but I was also hit with a storm of inspiration. Beginning with drawing my favourite Transformers-charakters based on their 30th Anniversary Mini-figures and ending w

Man ... I was looking to some scribbling and drawing I produced over the years and realized how much fun I had back in the days. It may sound stupid, but ... nowadays I'm rather afraid of drawing. There was a time when I didn't care about what others might or might not think of my work. It was just fun and there was hardly a time when I didn't have pen and paper at hand - drawing was part of my way of expression, together with my beloved writing. Today ... I don't know what changed. It's not that I don't have fun with it anymore, but I lost the easiness, the 'instinctiveness' I've felt before. Now I'm rather afraid to finish or even procee