Sorry, not much to say lately...

and no new art to post, around the second half of the summer there will probably be more from the drawing class I'll be taking. I just haven't been in the mood lately.

I do have some images in my head that I want to put down on paper but I'm still mentally working on how I want to lay them out. Writers make an outline of how they want a story to go before writing it out (at least I think they do), musicians plan their arrangements first, and artists do the same by deciding how to design the image, what medium to use, color palette to show the mood, etc. And you know, all the famous artists made sketches to decide how to lay their artwork out, how objects/bodies looked from different angles, proportions, movements, lots and lots of sketches. Leonardo daVinci for example...

But I'm bad about not doing sketches. When I have an idea in my head I don't want to waste my time with sketches... like I expect it to just come out and be a grand work of art... and yet it doesn't come out that way... I know it would come out better if I would sketch and plot it out first. But at the same time, in the past the one or two occassions I did do a small sketch first it seemed like the sketch came out better than the actual work I was planning... as if I drew it best the first time it came out and so then the second time for the actual artwork it was spent... no longer a fresh idea, after I did it once the thrill was gone. Do you all even know what I mean by that? Am I only making sense to myself? I'm not the best writer in the world...

So these images I have in my head that I want to draw, it poses another problem for me that they are in fact coming from my mind... you may think this unusual for an "artist" to say, but I've never really felt creative. Oh sure, I can look at a photo and recreate it, as if I'm a copy machine. I'm very visual, and can plot out and measure with my eyes to draw something I see, like with the still-lifes. However, if it's only an image in my mind it's a different matter... parts of it are obscure and fuzzy, like a photo not quite in focus, so trying to plan out how to arrange it and lay it out for a physical piece of artwork isn't easy for me.

I should probably sketch more.