So during the holidays I stay at my parents’ house, its also where I grew up. Its also where all my old sketchbooks are… not like I had sketchbooks as a child, but these were in my later high school days and early college. I get all lethargic and don’t want to do anything except lay in my old bed, in my old room (which is now a storage closet a large one) and I flip through my old stuff or just sleep all day until meals are ready. Its like I had no access to internet or television or something, but my parents hip to the new age are on the interwebs.
Every holiday I flip through these sketchbooks and just improve on what I’d done before. Sometimes its better and sometimes its just terrible. I used to sign and date my stuff in the past, but more recently I just drop a sig and year. More than likely since I never finish sketches and just go digital with my comics the sig never gets place after I get a sketch out what I need. Here are this past holiday’s results:
Do you go back and see your progress from time to time? Or if you aren’t the artistic type, do you just enjoy seeing the progression in someone’s style?
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always interesting to watch people progress. like reading the oldest garfield books to the newer ones – garfield used to be super obese and ugly.
i see you enjoyed knights and wizard. i think '98 don is much better than '97 don, but '01 don isn't much better than '98. '10 better than all of them though!
I think the problem with most exercises and routines is that you can pick up bad habits. I was probably learning something or exploring a "bad" routine or method during those years that didn't quite make it much better than the original. More "good" practices makes better work. Thanks for the comment Cliff.