I’m really enjoying the latest Digital-Tutors tutorial I’ve been doing: Beginner’s Guide to Concept Sketching. I’d like to think I’m a little more than a beginner, but it looked like a good tutorial and I wanted to start with the basics, after all, nothing is more valuable than having the basics solid in your head!
Working through the exercises, I was pleasantly surprised to realise that, actually, my skills are all right and I need to have more faith in myself. Having the tutor really stress how important it is to forget quality and focus on getting the essence of an idea down quickly, almost gave me the ‘permission’ I needed to let go and be free with my drawing. Perfectionism is my biggest fall down and always threatens to get in the way of my creative process… it’s my number one priority to conquer it. I’ve learnt time and time again that it never pays to be precious with art, certainly not in the early stages anyway.
Lucy Ashfield 