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I Lack Art Focus

I enjoy art quite a lot. I enjoy looking at art, learning about art and creating art. The creating part is what I’m having difficulties in. I have a lot of different interests in art. I love watercolor, oil and acrylic painting but I have more to learn about using each medium. I have a good amount of practice with graphite drawing but I’m sure I need improvement. I especially love drawing the figure. I’d really like to produce digital illustrations using Photoshop and Illustrator. Pixel art is just so awesome I want to create my own but it’s time consuming and I think I need a better grasp of art concepts to come up with anything decent. I think, because I have so many interests in art, I have a hard time improving in any of it.

I think the best way to improve each skill, I need to dedicate a week for each. One week I’ll concentrate on graphite drawings and then I’ll dedicate a week to watercolor painting. You get the idea. I’ve found a way to improve my figure drawing skills by doing 30 second gestures of poses at Posemaniacs everyday. I’ve done plenty but I think I still need improvement. However, I started strong and drew everyday, now I draw when I remember to or have nothing else to do.

I’d like to say I’m passionate about art but if I don’t bother finding time for it (there’s never NOT enough time) then I’m not really passionate am I? I’m not exactly a driven person so I definitely need to find the motivation.

Are you interested in creating different types of art? How do you find time for each? Is dedicating a week good enough? Please share your tips and experiences.

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daily365: Days 102-108 Mushroom House

For the whole week of April 12th to 18th, I dedicated my daily365 time to pixel art. I’m not quite sure if I want to finish this but I enjoyed working on this nonetheless. I was inspired by this Mushroom house cookie jar.

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New Pixel Art: 8 Color Belly Dancer

I decided to start creating pixel art a bit more seriously – again. The logo I created awhile back was a lame attempt and I mean to update that sometime. I thought it’d be a great way to get back into pixel art by participating in last week’s Pixel Joint challenge. The requirements:

Canvas size:

Exactly 150 width x 50 height

Colors:

Exactly 8

Other requirements were no transparency and no animation. The theme was music – we had to pixel someone listening to music. I thought creating an image of a belly dancer was perfect. It’s kind of a self-portrait because whenever I listen to belly dance music, I start dancing – even in my chair. Plus, I have aspirations of becoming a performer.

Anyway, here are the different phases:

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New Pixel Art

I wanted to participate in a PixelJoint challenge because it seemed easy enough to do within a week. I’m still very much a pixel art newbie so I did something simple for my submission:

We were supposed to create a logo using our PJ usernames and were restricted to 32 colors, and a max height of 100 pixels. I was quite inspired by this masterful lettering by Alex Trochut. I basically started with a square and formed the letters within the box. I’m pretty happy with the letters, except for the “R”. I’m not quite sure how else to draw it, however.