Practice is Hard
Practise.
Practise is hard .
Practise is a large part of being creative. It usually doesn’t
feel like practise because it is the path towards a creation.
A knitter knits. A musicians plays. A writer writes. Creators
are drawn to create.
Yet I feel that there are parts of practise that all
creators find hard to do and I think it is the parts of their craft that is
difficult for them.
I am sure that everybody has something that they want to be good at
but they avoid because they are
not perfect at it. What is it for you?
That thing
for me is sketching. I am never happy with how an image in my brain turns out
on paper.
Because of that I rarely sketch. That is counter intuitive to what I
need to do. I need to accept my
imperfect sketching and work on it but it is so
hard to put self-judgement aside. Why?
How does one
move on past the practise issues that disrupt creative flow?
For me it comes
down to scheduling practise. And then being brutal with myself in sticking to
that
schedule. Harder to do than it seems. But… If I (or anybody) want(s) to improve
techniques there is
no other option. So
I have been sketching and I am going to share my sketches with you. Be gentle in
your judgment please.
These first few are older sketches. The 1st is what my pages usually look like. A lot of doodling
kind of like a brain dump.Makes no sense at all but there may be a germ of inspiration in it.
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| What my pages usually look like. |
The 2nd one I call Leaving the Secret Space which is based on the secret garden book. I think it was going to be a knit piece but it is still waiting for interpretation.
The 3rd sketch is a sheep. I hated it when I drew it but every time I look at it I like it a bit more. Maybe he'll be in something sometime.
All the above were times I just forced myself to pick up the sketch pad and see what came out of me. I felt insecure about them all but I have saved them because they may inform future work.
This last sketch is one of my last of a mermaid. I want to hook a mermaid but I want something a bit dark about it. It gets close to what I want to portray but I need more practice.
Why have I shared these? I hope to show that all creators have to develop ideas. Most of our first ideas are not "good". But we push forward. We keep practicing even if it is hard.
To end for today is the rug I am hooking of my dog for my dog. This is what she looks like all curled up tight. Just various shades of beige. I love my Kessie girl but she has never really used a dog bed and I doubt she will use this. I am making it for her anyway.
Be back in 2 weeks!
Truly it's love when you make a dog bed for a dog that doesn't use them. <3
ReplyDeleteI agree, it's important to practice and lately I've been thinking it's essential to share that practice instead of only the finished result, otherwise people don't see the process and might never get started themselves. If I'd seen more obviously not-finished stuff I might have had more confidence in drawing earlier on. Thank you for sharing!
Polo ! thank you for your comment. I agree that sharing the imperfect process is helpful to others. But you do share your paintings which I enjoy.
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