Style drift
Nov. 30th, 2025 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gs_silvaI wish I were good at drawing badly.
What I mean by that is that, as an artist, I can draw to a certain degree, and as a comic artist, I have to spend a lot of time drawing in a style that is simpler than my best and in some ways not as good as my best. Sometimes, I do my best anyway. The problem with that is that it raises the bar in the whole comic, and then when I get to a panel that is kind of sloppy, I have to try harder to make it match the rest of the comic.
I started out pretty sloppy and intended to stay that way. But my style drifted. I'm half glad it drifted; I'm better now, and faster, at fixing my mistakes, so I'm spending a lot of time fixing the sloppy early pages.
I'm half annoyed, though. More work for me.
Anyway, if you wonder why I draw the daily comics so hastily that they're a bunch of vaguely human cyan shapes with the black scribbled over them, that's why. I can't draw bad art well, but I can draw pretty decent art and then not finish it.
What I mean by that is that, as an artist, I can draw to a certain degree, and as a comic artist, I have to spend a lot of time drawing in a style that is simpler than my best and in some ways not as good as my best. Sometimes, I do my best anyway. The problem with that is that it raises the bar in the whole comic, and then when I get to a panel that is kind of sloppy, I have to try harder to make it match the rest of the comic.
I started out pretty sloppy and intended to stay that way. But my style drifted. I'm half glad it drifted; I'm better now, and faster, at fixing my mistakes, so I'm spending a lot of time fixing the sloppy early pages.
I'm half annoyed, though. More work for me.
Anyway, if you wonder why I draw the daily comics so hastily that they're a bunch of vaguely human cyan shapes with the black scribbled over them, that's why. I can't draw bad art well, but I can draw pretty decent art and then not finish it.