My drawing hobby has led to a side project and I'm working on it right now. I've had a personal website for a long time. It has been a hotch-potch of different things I'm interested in. But somehow I don't like it this way any longer. It doesn't really have a concept, it has grown historically so to speak. And it is not written in the current version of HTML and CSS anymore. So first I went ahead and updated the code. Now I am about to create the new content which will be all about drawing. I'm putting in there all the experience I have gathered in about three years of drawing. I hope it will help visitors understand that everyone can learn to draw and give them some hint on how to begin. It will be in German only for now. Can't wait to see it online.
This is a phenomenon you often hear about when it comes to drawing in sketchbooks. Sketchbooks are not only a tool these days. They often are a piece of art themselves. People want them to look good. And they especially don't want to start a new sketchbook with a bad page. So there is advice out there about how to overcome this fear of ruining a new sketchbook with a bad first page. One tip is to start somewhere in the middle. If you then ruin your drawing it's at least not on the first page. For me this doesn't work, because I date my drawings and want them to be in chronological order. And then, sooner or later you have to tackle that first page and still don't know if it will turn out good or not. Another tip suggests to use the first page to paint your colour palette or the tools you are going to use or something like this. Well, if this is useful to you, why not. I would simply say, chose a subject that is familiar to you, something you know you are good at. ...
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