I’ve had drawing hiatus
for an extremely long time. Since I graduated, I lost my enthusiasm for
drawing. My fashion degree had caused me hate everything (mostly to do with
fashion design). I just didn’t find it in me to be creative anymore, which was
quite sad. I burned out excessively.
I grew up with drawing
and now feared that if I don’t become creative anymore, I’d lose it altogether.
So at the start of 2015, I said to myself that I’m going to start drawing
again. I even brought a moleskine. Heard of Cass Art London? Its the best art shop and I just love going in there for buying art materials.
These are my personal
ways of overcoming drawing hiatus:
Step 1: Pinterest is a
great inspiration. I could procrastinate on that website for ages and ages because
there just so much inspirational pictures to get inspired.
Step 2: You can never go
wrong with drawing things you like, whether its buildings, portraits, objects
or flowers. Record it in a sketchbook and make it your drawing diary. Currently
in my moleskine, I began drawing typography, fine liner hair studies and most
recently designing my own book covers, which are quite mediocre because let’s
be honest, I don’t know much about layout design.
I am actually not that
great at drawing faces and I don’t look forward to drawing them but I try my
best to draw them. When a see a really beautiful editorial, I have this need to
draw it. Sometimes I think its not about how realistically you draw them,
(unless you are really brilliant at drawing realistic things), but its also
about how you interpreted it in your own way.
Step 3: Consider getting
a Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith. They’re great for getting back into
creativity and to basically get out of your comfort zone. If you’re a
perfectionist, then this is the book for you. There are a lot of fun pages to
do. I brought one last year and have not finished it yet (too busy) but I plan
to finish it this year, hopefully. It is literally taking me forever.
Step 4: If you’re like
me and hate your current portfolio because its bad memories and you know that
you can do so much better than what you did at college or university, consider
creating a new portfolio of new projects.
I want my portfolio to look more illustrative and print/pattern designs, rather than Fashion Design based. At the moment, I am attempting to do a new project. The theme is Where The Wild Things Are, so I started looking into drawing things such as deers, antlers, wildflowers and pine trees etc. but its quite hard to get back into that mood because projects take longer than anticipated. I'm eager to get it done.
I upload on my Instagram. My artwork thus far:
I upload on my Instagram. My artwork thus far:
Zoella sketch. This was my first portrait in a long time.
