If any of you are like me, you have a terrible habit of filling several pages of a sketchbook and moving on to the next or completely forgetting about it. Here are some tips that have helped me stop these annoying habits
don’t be afraid to make marks all over the page (no small quarter-page masterpieces)
these are sketches- they’re meant to be quick and gestural; not extremely detailed drawings
experiment with all kinds of mark making (long, short, thick, and thin marks can add a lot of variety to a sketch)
practice
sketches are not precious little things- it’s okay to make changes and draw it again, again, and again
time yourself when sketching
pRaCtIcE
USE REFERENCES
or draw from imagination
add annotations so you don’t forget something about that sketch
find a media that you like (graphite, pen, charcoal, etc.)
have a sketchbook with you always (I highly recommend small moleskine sketchbooks that are easy to carry in a purse or bag)
PRACTICE
spend 20+ minutes a day sketching even if you don’t feel like it, do it anyway- there is nothing more satisfying than filling up a sketchbook
draw what interests you
filling a sketchbook is not as hard as it seems, just keep sketching
James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Youtube channel, but it didn’t stay up – Youtube’s Content ID system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement
because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds’ worth
of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for
300 years.
Just last week, German music professor Ulrich Kaiser posted his research
on automated censorship of classical music, in which he found that it
was nearly impossible to post anything by composers like Bartok,
Schubert, Puccini and Wagner, because companies large and small have
fraudulently laid claim to their whole catalogs.
Europeans have one week to contact their MEPs to head off this catastrophe.
Stop what you’re doing and contact two friends in the EU right now and send them to Save Your Internet – before it’s too late.
y’all: we have adorable worlds with adorable characters!! it has fantasy, cute romance, and just the right amount of sadness!! what about you?
me: *shoving my serial killer characters, personal trauma i worked into my story, all of the dark subjects i tackle, and the endless void of sadness, into a box* yeah, something like that
im starting a gang and we’re gonna go out and destroy every golf course. rip up all the grass and replace it with native plants and fruit trees and shit. we move at midnight be there or be a casualty of the revolution
C.A. Jacobs
C.A. Jacobs 