Savina's Sketchbook: UPDATED 10/20
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Hey everyone, I'm JUST pulling out of the longest slump I've been in since I started drawing in 2011. My slump lasted about 8 months and it's been torture.
Jake gave me some really great exercises here that helped me a lot and finally pulled me out of it. So I'm now getting back to sketching. Here are my 1st three character sketches:Sept. 4th:
Sept. 6th:
Sept. 9th (this sketch is inspired by an Ed Org piece):
I'm very frustrated that my drawing skills have really become rusty and so much time was wasted, but II'm just going to have to work 3 times as hard now that I'm getting back in the swing.
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I "slumped" for more than 10 years (from around 2000 to 2011), so I can only congratulate you for getting back swiftly and finding renewed energy! Your work looks great, it reminds a bit of Don Daily. Do you know the story "The Velveteen Rabbit?". It seems you love doing rabbits, and I think the story is in the public domain, so you could think of doing illustrations for it. The "rustiness" will go away fast. Looking forward to seeing your next pieces!
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@amberwingart Wow! - These are beautiful! - Love the pose and expression of the rabbit! so glad you are back.
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@smceccarelli Yikes! 10 years?? I don't even want to think of that possibility - 8 months felt like an eternity! I haven't heard of Don Daily, but I'll look him up. You know what's funny is that I actually don't especially enjoy drawing rabbits, I just find them easy to draw. I actually really love drawing coyotes and bears, but they're very difficult for me to draw. I need to get back to practicing them. I've never been especially good at sketching but man alive, dusting off this rustiness from lack of practice is both fun and frustrating at the same time! Lol
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@Kevin-Longueil Thank you so much! That's so awesome to hear from someone of your skill level. That rabbit is my first attempt at breaking out of my "environment fear" :).
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I love your art. Great poses, expression, etc. I am very impressed with everything...
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@smceccarelli Me too, same ten years.
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@Russ-Van-Dine Thank you so much! Now I just have to kick the procrastination habit! lol
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love the detail and characters
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Your work is so beautiful and detailed - I used to love these kind of illustrations when I was a child, and I still do
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@Naroth-Kean Thank you so much! Hearing this positive feedback is making me feel so much better - I've felt like my work looks like a beginner's. I still think it looks amateurish, but these comments have really helped boost my morale.
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@Camomilla Thank you so much! My favorite art when I was a kid were the fairytale illustrations in old books...I used to LOVE books from the 20s-50s that had illustrations in them - I'd sit and stare at them for hours, sometimes. So when I started drawing, I think that detailed look sort of naturally came out. I love the details! Thank you again for the great comment.
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I'm not going to commit to posting a sketch a day because that seems to send me into a panic, lol, but...I'm trying to DO a sketch a day. This is day 1 of posting: Charles, the artiste squirrel. This is about 4"x2.5" .
Feedback would be greatly appreciated!
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@amberwingart This is great - i love this style and it looks like it is your natural way of drawing! - super cool! Are you looking for feedback on these at all? - the only thought i had was possibly the scale of the palette is a bit small - i think a huge palette held at an angle not quite mirroring the brush but close might be worth a try - it would really make a nice shape i think - anyways feel free to ignore
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@Kevin-Longueil Feedback is always so greatly appreciated! I was thinking I should make the palette bigger, but I ran out of time last night - I'll try that & repost.
I have a question about style though...You'd said this is probably my natural style & I'm wondering if you could please describe what you mean...I'm looking for my style but I can't seem to see it yet, but others have mentioned my style & I'm curious what they're/you're seeing that I'm not seeing. Thank you again for the input!!
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@amberwingart To me it has a Golden Age feel to it - magical realism perhaps is the best way to describe it - there is probably a real genre label that i am not thinking of though
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@Kevin-Longueil Wow. You just made my day :). The Golden Age illustrators are my favorites - they're the ones I'd spend hours looking at as a kid, so hearing that just made my spirit soar. Thanks, Kevin :).
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@amberwingart Not sure if you've seen this already, but I just finished watching a video by Jake Parker, where he mentions that the inspiration for the video was the 'Creative Slump' thread that you posted here on SVS a while back, and he replied to....in the video he summarises the suggestions he made in the thread. Thought you might like to know, and it's good viewing anyway, especially for anyone who wants to get all motivated about Inktober
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@Dulcie Oh wow, I haven't seen that! Could you please post a link to it for me? His suggestions in that thread are what pulled me out of that 8 month creative emptiness.
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Sure, the link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6JQHYHz2bI
