A New Year's Resolution - A Drawing a Day
Lots of people make New Year's Resolutions. This year I have a few, but the only one which may be interesting to anyone other than myself and my wife is that in order to help push myself creatively, I resolve to complete a drawing a day. As an artist, it's a good thing for me to draw every day, but this New Year's Day my resolution is to make a quick extra drawing which is in some way unique. This can be using a medium I usually don't use, or a subject I rarely depict, or a size that I'm not particularly comfortable with -- it doesn't matter how it is unique for me, the point is to encourage myself to expand my creativity and grow as an artist. Making a quick drawing also forces me to not spend so much time correcting it, which forces me to focus on putting in what is necessary for the drawing to be successful but not be so perfectionistic about including too much detail.
Today, I was going to draw a manga figure. That wasn't unique for me. So, I decided on a Ferrari. Not unique for me, either. I decided to just make a blank canvas and start adding color and let the drawing come to me on its own. As I began sketching a vague idea formed for an idyllic desert oasis. This first drawing was done in Photoshop using my Wacom Intuos graphics tablet. I have a cool watercolor-type brush, and played around with some other brushes for texture. I normally use Photoshop as a kind of digital airbrush, so it was fun to learn about how some different brush settings will affect the brushstrokes.
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