I'm not sure if it was just me or was yesterday just "meh"? It wasn't bad, wasn't good, wasn't anything. I felt like I forgot to pay the gravity bill...the weather was even "meh". We were supposed to have severe weather...while we got a storm, it too, was "meh". Then the rest of the day was a very dark grey...droopy and soul sucking...well at least energy and motivation sucking. Then the clouds broke and I got to see 10 minutes of the sun. Woo hoo. **note dripping sarcasm of the woo and the hoo**
Seriously, it was one of those days...I forced myself to do some arting. It was just that forced. I did manage to get one solid piece out and one, "meh" piece...one that will go up, eventually, but I'm not sure when. I had the urge to art...buried deep down under the "meh" feeling. I guess I wasn't alone, in the thick swirls of "meh" and I'm glad I wasn't alone in the "meh-ness" of the day. I'm blaming the weather...yup the weather...at least today it's sunny.
Today I'm hoping for a productive art day. I tried to do some character design. Not purely digital, but actually sketching with paper and pencil. Yeah, that was "meh" in the theme with yesterday. Last blog I had the debate on whether or not it was cheating...peanut gallery and I had a forum and by forum I asked him (he is an ex-artist, after all) and he said no...the end. There was more to it, but that was pretty much the summary of it. There were pie charts, graphs, etc. No, no there wasn't. It was more of him reminding me that traditional sketches are still a start of many digital artists' go to as a starting point.
It's odd having my start as a traditional artist turned digital artist the disconnects I have with both genre's of art (is genre the right term, well it's the term for this blog). I'm not sure if other artists' have the same or similar disconnects as I do....it'd be interesting to know. I don't have the almighty Wacom Cintiq which is a goal of mine...I'm not dissing my Intuos Pro 4 at all. Amazing things can be done. I may be sticking my foot in my mouth here, but I think every digital artists' ultimate goal tool-wise is the Cintiq. I'm assuming on this point...and I do know what assuming does...I digress, while I don't know if I will be able to connect the disconnects traditionally, at least digitally, I can connect some of them traditionally, if that made any sense whatsoever...it did to me...but I'm the keeper of the forbidden knowledge (the gunk in my noggin" that I think I said/typed/interpretive danced but didn't).
On that note, minions...if you had a day of "meh" I hope that it has ended for you. Seems to have ended for me, but the day is still young. It is the start of your weekend, I hope your day flies by and you have a wonderful weekend. An early Happy Father's Day out there to all the minions that are Dad's. This wish extends to all the Mom's out there that had to do both roles. Until Monday minions...Toodles!