Buffy the Vampire Slayer

With boundless energy this morning I put in lots of deep focus and got the Buffy drawing finished.

During our Optimize Artists session today another artist shared some amazing wisdom on having respect for your art heroes and not comparing yourself to them.

For today’s post and video I’m going to give you a quick tip on how to plan your daily art.

Some amazing wisdom by Stephen Covey in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is habit number 7, “Sharpen your saw”.

I’m posting very late in my day because we had a super busy awesome day but after coming back to Buffy tonight I’m faced with a “start over” dilemma.

I’m loving Twyla Tharp’s book The Creative Habit and the recent Idea I just read is all about “scratching” for Ideas.

The best way to improve anything is to measure it. So if you want more art time, measure the time you do spend.

With artistic stamina we can look at every “mess up” as a possibility for a positive in another drawing and an indication of how to get better.

Here is another quick post because it’s more of the same consistency on daily art practice.

I’m going for the quick posts now so I’m just going to go over my Buffy drawing for session 4. Quick and easy.

I think I spent more time sharpening and breaking charcoal pencils today that I did actually drawing.

After more changes to my master plan of this Buffy drawing I focused down on drawing Buffy’s eye before I move on to the rest of her body.

Today after more research and agonizing over imagery I finally got the Buffy drawing started.