I think many artists know this feeling: Too many ideas!
Especially when you’re working on a longer creative project, like a comic, other story ideas will pop up in our heads.
What do we do with these ideas? Do we push them away? Or do we run with our ideas and try and cram in the time to make everything we want to make?
I can tell you that there’s a way to keep nurturing those new ideas without necessarily taking massive action on them. That is what this article is about.
We want our comic pages to look good. But we also want to churn them out in a reasonable amount of time.
In this week’s video I show you how drawing MORE isn’t necessarily better. And how you can increase your speed by using your art skills to the max.
This blogpost has an accompanying video on my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu68FmjIHnM What is a good artist mindset when it comes to making mistakes and imperfect art? And what do you do when you hit a roadblock in your art? I’ll tell you what I did when that happened to me…
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