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This came out from a discussion i had with a friend today.
How much do you actually plan before drawing/etc.?
How much does the subject of the pic/etc. influences your way of working on it?
Have you ever felt stranged when you get back to another form of art after having spent a lot of time focusing on another (for example, starting again to make sculptures after having tried to get better at digital art)?

Do we just mean visual art, as in drawing/ painting or all art forms?

I find planning main points you really want and then using improvisation to fill in the gaps is a rather fun way to get there. Often it won't turn out anything like you imagined but it's often better!

I usually just go with the flow and try to get at least most of what I see in my head down on paper in one piece. The only time I really plan something is if it's a watercolour painting or if I want to get a certain mood down, and even then most of my creative process is really just scribbling around a lot until I find something that looks aesthetically pleasing, ya know? :U

Although, in response to your last question, I just recently tried to paint traditionally again. Because I haven't in ages. And oh my god I've forgotten how. I do this all the time. I'll get really into concept art, and then I'll feel rusty when I try to do some linework, or I'll spend a lot my time writing and then forget how to draw a circle. It's really bad when I'm modeling, and I spend so much time in one 3D program that by the time I switch over to another I'm completely lost.

Ah I'm hopeless.

Yes, all art forms. I just said sculpture and drawing because those are pretty much the only kind i work on.

'All art forms' is extremely vague. You can call anything an art if there are methods being practiced.

Why just today I made use of the art of mowing the lawn.



Sorry I'm just being a douche. When I draw or write I usually try to draw inspiration from something around me, and I can usually keep the creative juices flowing. It's pretty hard for me to just switch on my drawing and writing mode. Which is why I keep a pad of paper with me whenever I can. I'm not like, a romantic or transcendentalist or anything, I'm just not that great at inspiring myself.

Gnukko, on 27 March 2012 - 07:14 PM, said:

"Oh, gee, I hope this works!" Seriously, I just think of something in my head and assume that by the time I get to the paper I'll be able to draw.

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Well, I have little to draw on, but if I had a more intense scene, I'd probably do something like draw sharper, harsher lines just to make the entire thing feel a bit more "in your face."

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I feel strange just getting to the paper! Seriously, the only kind of art that I've legitimately tried is drawing. I've made four complete drawings in my entire life, all but one of them pictures of heads, all but one of them copies. When I sit down and start trying to draw on paper, I get blank paper syndrome, so to speak.

I think I might just be physically incapable of drawing (and I really hope a certain someone will never read this...), because every time I've tried, the only reason it works is because I copied a style or because I copied the frickin' picture. Once, I wanted to be able to do like, a "manga page" for every single chapter of each of my stories, but now I know that's never going to happen.

One could say that I don't practice enough (haven't drawn in months), but I'm too terrified of perpetual failure to invest time. Too afraid that no matter how much practice I do, I'll never get good. I'll never know until I try, but I'm too afraid to try...

Writing is easy. Drawing is like trying to defuse a time bomb... with three seconds remaining... and shaky hands... broken scissors... and no fingers.

It depends on the medium and the subject.

When I'm doing an art project for school, I'm usually inspired by the materials we are given, and the creativity of my own mind. Sometimes I stumble upon something new, or I remember something from my past that inspires me.

For example, we were given a canvas, paint, wooden shapes, and wire once. I was the only person to put three triangles together to make 3D pyramidal shapes and hot-glue them to the canvas. Of course I painted it purple with a Pollockian speckling of gold paint. In another instance, with wire sculpture, I dug into my early childhood and remembered from a colorful picture book about the ocean that a creature existed known as the Gulper Eel. It made for a fucking AWESOME sculpture.

In drawing, I used to doodle all the time just random lines and shit that started to look like things, whereupon I'd just follow where the drawing took me. Other times, when I wanted a more specific image and had a general layout in mind, e.g. a picture of a girl or a Graphic Novel/Comic, I storyboard the general position of the characters and objects in the scene, and after drawing and erasing skeletal structures, base shapes, outlined forms, and finally clothing and other details, I would ink it, erase it, and compile/color it in GIMP.

I do a lot in Audio and Film as well, but those are entirely different than what I assume the theme of this topic is.


TL;DR: Recesses of my mind and ERASER IS BEST BUDDY

This post has been edited by Dr. Klaus: 27 March 2012 - 09:01 PM

I walk forward until the museum guard yells at me.

How much do you actually plan before drawing/etc.?

Depends on the medium and what I'm drawing for. If it's a request/commission, I usually put more thought into it. I tend to draw several drafts and sketches before working on the final piece. A lot of my drawings that I do just for fun don't require too much time, really, as I tend to draw whatever comes to mind.
In terms of animation, it depends on what I'm animating, the complexity, the number of frames I'm allowed, and how much time I have to complete it. I usually plan my animation out on paper as well, by drawing thumbnails, sketching, and including estimated frames that each pose would occur at.

How much does the subject of the pic/etc. influences your way of working on it?

If it's something that I'm more familiar with, then I know it won't be too difficult for me to execute. I'm still fairly new to animation, so even for very simple/basic movements, I will try to make sure that I take more time to work on it.

Have you ever felt stranged when you get back to another form of art after having spent a lot of time focusing on another (for example, starting again to make sculptures after having tried to get better at digital art)?
It can take getting used to again, changing mediums..but I don't think it's too strange, especially if you've done any of the mediums for quite awhile.