Drawing Process

(This post is really just going to be me rambling on about art with no sort of direction whatsoever.)

So I draw (shocker there), but often times when I am showing someone a finished product there reaction is basically positive (though their level of being impressed depends on the person). I often times spend 3 or more hours on each drawing depending on what it is. It took me 3 hours alone just to get the correct skin color of a character (which still is a little bit off and I'm going to need to revise it). Sometimes people are amazed at how long it takes (which is one reason I don't do art as often as I use to). But the amount of amazement on the person's face pretty much corresponds with the amount of work and effort that goes into making the piece.


My skills unfortunately have not improved in a while because of how little I draw and paint. And then on top of that I have only taken one art class and that was in middle school and only a semester (and I didn't really get anything out of it other than getting better). And then I also did a short art program thing at the YMCA, but I don't really remember anything from it and know that I only got to learn how to use watercolors. But basically I am self-taught which seems to be a growing trend thanks to the internet (or it may not be growing, but I happen to find more people who are over the internet). Plus there are so many wonderful tutorials and walkthroughs online that virtually anyone can learn how to draw if they decided to.


A lot of people who I also show my art to end up saying "You draw so much better than me!" or "I can't even draw" which honestly in my opinion people draw better than they claim to, and I think that if people applied themselves to it, they will learn to draw even if they claim they can't do it. However, this way of thinking does not carry over to my own art. In my mind, I can't draw a little bit better than most people, but quite frankly I think that I'm really bad. Now there are people who tell me otherwise, and I have gotten into quite a few debates with my best friend over my drawing abilities. So to be polite I just end up saying thank you most of the time.


Now, I said that I spend a very long time on virtually everything that I do, and afterward I feel really happy about finishing it and though it may not be perfect I am proud of it. Here's the thing about any kind of art (I have heard this from many many people who do almost every kind of art) you end up hating it around a week later. After the pride of finishing it wears off, you begin to realize all of it's mistakes and flaws and places that need to be retouched. But in my case, I get so tired of it that I end up just leaving it because the ones that I have gone back and retouched I ended up pretty much redoing the entire thing when I could have been starting a new project. That is the unfortunate part of art.


The reason I finally decided to do a blog on art is because I would like to start commissions. However I don't think that I am talented enough nor will get anyone want to buy one. I have so far only done one, and I am not sure how that ended up happening. Plus I would need to think about prices, and I am terrible at figuring those things out. So maybe I'll actually start doing them, but first I'll need to know if anyone will commission me.