Hey everyone! And by everyone, I mean myself… mostly… hehe.
I'm setting up this blog to use as a personal motivator for myself for staying active, staying creative, and doing so on a schedule and in a timely manner. It's actually a little experiment my friend and I are trying to do, to each create a blog of some sort to better our work ethic in a strategic way. You know… "work smarter, not harder". And to me that means staying active, keeping a creative spirit, maintaining a schedule, setting deadlines (and keeping them), and learning when to say no (usually in terms of being a perfectionist, and dwelling too long on a specific detail).
The basic premise of this blog is that I'll be posting something
every day. One post for each day, where I take 10-15 min. out of my schedule to work on something creative. This could be sketching, 3d modeling, painting, animating, editing, music, whatever. Just something creative, while maintaing a "strict, yet fun" attitude. It's loose-ended enough to keep my ideas fresh and free, but strict enough to learn valuable skills in time-managment, setting deadlines, and when to say no. And with any luck, I'll be able to apply these skills in real-time to my actual real-world projects.
My post for today? I wanted to start simple, so here's a 10-15 min. session of sketching cartoon hands as I see them in my head (i.e. without reference from any animated films or shows). FYI: I'm not that great at drawing hands (but would love to be better!), so I figured this would be a nice place to start. Sketched in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.
Sketching Cartoon Hands (Without Reference)
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And that's pretty much it! Most of the future posts will be a lot shorter than this one since I won't have to explain as much.
Anyway, that's all for now. Should be back tomorrow with another post.
- Erik
P.S. Here's the list of other titles I came up with for this blog. I was trying to embody a free creative spirit, so please excuse how silly some of them are, hehe (feel free to use them for yourself if you like them though):
- Sketch World
- The Wireframe
- The Sandbox
- Sand World
- The Snowbox
- The Clay Box
- The 5th-Dimensional Wonder Box
- The Lava Box (and I Have Gloves)
- The Quadroscopic Engineer
- Creativation Canyon
- Mystimation Mountain
- Mr. Eos Glade
- The Hidden Glade
- Creativation Exploration
- World in a Box
- Universe in a Box
- Magic in a Box
- Instructions Not Included
- Just Press Go
