{"id":10826,"date":"2015-08-24T00:15:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T00:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/08\/24\/some-artist-tips-you-may-or-may-not-know\/"},"modified":"2015-08-24T00:15:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T00:15:16","slug":"some-artist-tips-you-may-or-may-not-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/08\/24\/some-artist-tips-you-may-or-may-not-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Artist Tips you May or May Not Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

ashalina-art<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Just from personal experience.<\/p>\n

1: Never try to draw on an empty stomach. You\u2019ll make mistakes and be uncomfortable. (But don\u2019t stuff yourself till you\u2019re sick either.)<\/p>\n

2: If you have to go to the bathroom, go. A full bladder or otherwise does serious damage to the attention and patience spans. Plus it gives you time to stretch your legs.<\/p>\n

3: Before you ink it, leave it alone. Come back later (a few hours, a day?) and check for major anatomy mistakes. Work on something else while you\u2019re waiting.<\/p>\n

4: Stay hydrated! The brain and fine motor skills work better when properly circulated.<\/p>\n

5: Do not have an excessive amount of sugar before sitting down to work. You\u2019ll get jittery and impatient. Same goes for immense amounts of caffeine.<\/p>\n

6: If you\u2019re stuck, take a break to stand and stretch. Walk around the room. But don\u2019t THINK of it as a break. Just take time to really focus on your body. Loosen it up, get a goooood long stretch and some deep breaths. (but don\u2019t pass out!) It\u2019ll jolt the mind awake and let you really relax a moment.<\/p>\n

7: Keep. All. Your. Old. Art. I don\u2019t care what it is. Keep it. Date it if it\u2019s in your computer folders. Make a suitcase filled with it. (I personally have ALL my old art in a thick work folder.)<\/p>\n

8: Keep your sketchbooks together, used and unused. If there\u2019s a good sale on sketchbooks, get two or three! You won\u2019t regret it later. There\u2019s no such thing as too many. (I currently have about ten spankin\u2019 new sketchbooks and I know I\u2019ll need\/use every single one of them.)<\/p>\n

9: Date your sketchbooks. Put a start and finish date on them.<\/p>\n

10: I\u2019m afraid I don\u2019t practice this one: date your drawings. You\u2019ll be happy about it later. You don\u2019t need to SIGN every drawing, but do date them. At least date pages.<\/p>\n

11: ART BLOCK HAPPENS. Art block is pretty much a CONSTANT state of mind for artists. You\u2019re never out of art block totally. But sometimes you get bursts of inspiration that make it feel like you\u2019re out. So instead of feeling like you\u2019re ill if you suddenly have artblock, remind yourself that this happens all the time, and you get out of it eventually, every time. c:><\/p>\n

12: If you\u2019re REALLY stuck on some bad art block, do what I do.<\/p>\n

Draw a brain barf. This is where you take a blank sheet of paper, and you just LET your hand be A.D.D. Draw whatever<\/em> <\/strong>comes to mind, as<\/em> <\/strong>it comes to mind. in the middle of drawing a hippo in a top hat but you think of a jolly rancher riding a unicycle? Switch immediately.<\/p>\n

Let your brain just vomit all over the page. You\u2019ll be surprised what comes up and what art block this can get you out of. It\u2019s gotten me out of it various times.<\/p>\n

13: Take advice from more experienced artists. But do NOT take everything as Gospel. Some people are just wrong.<\/p>\n

14: HAND SHYNESS\/ ART ENVY\/ SELF CONSCIOUSNESS\/ AND SKILL IMPATIENCE WILL EAT YOU ALIVE <\/strong><\/em>like a Titan<\/strike>.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>Do not let yourself get shy after looking at \u2018better art\u2019, do not let yourself think your art is worthless or your skills are worthless, and do not let yourself get frustrated that you cannot be at a higher skill level RIGHT NOW. Your brain will try to do this. All the time. Keep yourself in check. If you keep going at it, and keep working, you will get better. This is why you keep your old art. Look at it to remind you how far you\u2019ve come.<\/p>\n

15: Draw what you like<\/strong>. This is so<\/strong> important. (This does not apply for exploitative art. :l That\u2019s just wrong. So long as you\u2019re not targeting someone harmfully, I guess you\u2019re fine.)<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t let people\u2019s preferences dictate what you can and can\u2019t draw. Draw whatever the heck you like. Accept that no matter WHAT there will be someone out there that hates it. Always. This is just a fact of life. But don\u2019t let it get you down. I would have stopped being an artist at day one if I had.<\/p>\n

16: You never. Stop. Learning. Ever. You will be old and grey and still be learning new things. That\u2019s okay. That\u2019s the nature of art. Even the \u2018pros\u2019 don\u2019t know everything.<\/p>\n

I hope these help someone out there~<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ashalina-art: Just from personal experience. 1: Never try to draw on an empty stomach. You\u2019ll make mistakes and be uncomfortable. (But don\u2019t stuff yourself till you\u2019re sick either.) 2: If you have to go to the bathroom, go. A full bladder or otherwise does serious damage to the attention and patience spans. Plus it gives … Continue reading Some Artist Tips you May or May Not Know<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,618],"class_list":["post-10826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-important","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}