BUT I do believe it is possible to have the quality of your art freeze in place or at least improve really sloowlllyy, even if you still draw a lot. There is a webcomic artist I've been following for years, I won't bring up said person's name out of respect for them they're not on Tapastic , but they have been around a LONG time, it has to be pushing over 15 years now Okay, to be fair their art got a bit cleaner and their style more streamlined, but once it got to that point the improvement just stopped.
They've been drawing backgrounds in a really lazy fashion for years and all of their angles are very, very basic. Rarely do I see experimental angles or character conversations that aren't just a load of talking heads.
Said artist must've decided early on that their style was good enough and they preferred ONLY quantity over quality, because I have never seen them make an attempt to make backgrounds more detailed or to improve how their characters are drawn by all that much.
So apparently, even if you continuously draw, it is VERY possible to fall into comfortable habits that stunts your growth. This is why I think, even with webcomics where you're trying to keep things consistent looking most of the time, you should still try to experiment when you can so you make some improvements as you go.
There are some times where, after learning new skills, that you might feel that your art is lacking than before. Much like when I learned to use shapes instead of just drawing straight. At first, it seems like it was a worse way of doing things, especially since I already had something that I had thought was good. But once my skill level adapted to the shaping of things and eventually got used to it, I found that what I drew after was much better that what I used to, and it was much easier to draw what I wanted, with better consistency.
Well, sadly, it is possible. I've seen occasionally, but it wasn't because of the artist stopped drawing, quite the opposite, it was because of drawing too much, yep, you read it. Sometimes deadlines are so brutal that takes a blow on art quality.
Drawing with no rest is a one way ticket to sickness more often than not. I have seen artists that have amazing volumes at first, but down the line the art gets more simplistic, with less details, more rushed But it's because of what I mentioned, the artist can't keep it up, even tho s he draws on a daily In concerns to comics I think deadlines if often the quality killer culprit.
I wouldn't say that your art can "get worse", as in losing the ability to draw. But you can get rusty from going without practice for a sizable length of time, but that's basically only a temporary "worse", and getting back into the groove of things will usually bring an artist back to where they were before they stopped.
At least, that's been my experience. I think it's possible, but I also think someone's style can change and in effect looks "worse" than before.
I have a friend who shall go unnamed and I used to like her cartoon drawings a lot, but then around senior year of college and afterwards she started looking into extra-curricular classes and did a Stephen Silver workshop last year. Also the less I think about what I am doing. I think it depends on what you are painting. It has been said that you can only paint as well as you can draw. I would try using a guide, like a two point perspective scheme, sounds complicated I know, but when you puzzle it out, you might find that you will do better.
Maybe you could post then and now pieces so people can see and advise? However, going through my very first figure studies a little while ago, I could see huge improvements in my work. I do believe that at some point you must tell your inner editor to shut up. The only time this should not be a rule is when you are waiting for delivery of some material that might be holding you up.
Thank you for all the insightful and thoughtful responses. What it actually does is create new neural pathways to more efficiently perform tasks we repeat often enough. So practice in this case does not make perfect. All it does is make perfect either our good habits resulting in improvement over time OR our bad habits resulting in what prompted this thread.
This is a chilling realization. It makes me think of riding a bicycle. Not a perfect analogy, but here goes: once the practice of balancing on a bike gets locked in you will be able to ride a bike for the rest of your life.
You would have to intentionally tip yourself over to fall down, and even then you would be fighting muscle memory. It took him six months of daily practice to rewire his brain into the new mode of riding. Then when he tried to ride a normal bike again he was unable to and it took him another six months of daily practice to re-learn to ride a normal bicycle. Managing your WetCanvas! This topic has 18 replies, 15 voices, and was last updated 3 years, 7 months ago by Dave. Viewing 15 posts - 1 through 15 of 19 total.
March 12, at pm Updated: Mar How do you know if you're making progress? Has this happened to you? You did your first few paintings and you thought to yourself "Gee, I can do this. It looks OK. I need more practice, but I'm pleased with the results for a first try". And then, a few paintings later, all of a sudden the paintings look awful!
Nothing seems to work, you've got ideas but can't seem figure out how to get them on canvas, the colours don't look right, you'd forgotten completely how to draw, etc.
The longer you paint the worse you seem to get! First of all, let me say, this is common. It happened to me, and to pretty much every artist I know. This can happen for two reasons:. You just think you're getting worse. Your eyes are getting much better at judging. With each painting you do, you see more, you understand more about how the paint works, you begin to study other artists more and judge yourself more harshly.
As well as happening in the early stages, this can rear it's ugly head again any time during your career, when you're feeling a little short on ideas, when you're trying to work at a time when you're overtired, when you've done a little too much reading or studying of other artists and instead of spending time painting. It's also common to take on bigger and bigger challenges. In March she filed a lawsuit against the Simcoe County District School Board in the Ontario Court of Justice alleging it failed to adequately address regular instances of racism and bullying.
The case is ongoing. This past summer her family moved to a different neighbourhood and in September her daughter started at a new school — Forest Hill Public School, a kindergarten-to-Grade 8 school of about students in Midhurst, a village on the outskirts of Barrie.
Instead, every morning Shakespeare and her husband weigh whether or not to send their daughter to school. Then they fret over the implications of that decision.
Their daughter — whom the Star will not name to protect her privacy — has been sucker-punched by anti-Black violence right from the first day of school. Shakespeare said it began with an image of a noose and slurs, escalated to death and rape threats and finally, a physical attack. Her experiences represent an explosion of anti-Blackness in schools across Ontario, often intersecting with other forms of hate, including antisemitism. It has left Black parents knocking on doors of advocacy groups, media and legal experts in their search for safety in schools.
He listed strategies the board is undertaking to combat racism including mandatory anti-racism training for all staff and hiring a human rights and equity adviser. Charline Grant, a co-founder of the advocacy group Parents of Black Children , said the group has been inundated with calls about anti-Black racism since the beginning of the school year.
And every time we the group are in the media, we see a rise in our calls in our intake. In the last few days alone, a Toronto teacher at Parkdale Collegiate Institute showed up in Blackface for Halloween while another is being investigated for using a racial slur. And in Scarborough, a Black parent told a rally to protest inadequate support by William G. Davis Junior Public School that his nine-year-old son was the victim of racist bullying and escalating hate there.
Other parents spoke about their experiences at that school and elsewhere. For Shakespeare, going to court was the last resort to hold the school board accountable. I write emails. I get people to support me. I was mad. I was scared. In any case, her daughter had grabbed the picture and thrown it in the garbage.
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