handdrawnnomad: Ya know for me my sketchbooks have never been about impressing anyone with my drawin
handdrawnnomad: Ya know for me my sketchbooks have never been about impressing anyone with my drawing skills because frankly I am not that impressive of a draftsmen. That isn’t false modesty, although I could see how it could be read that way, but what I intended with that statement is to say that my sketchbooks are more about exploration and discovery than nailing a nice drawing. Which is why I almost never show them to anyone. As an animator I am interested more in specific idiosyncratic behaviors and gestures that may happen. Not necessarily the perfect graphic representation of them… At least not yet. My sketchbooks are books full of crummy thumbnails exploring ideas and capturing things I find interesting. I am a refiner by nature, so it takes me time to refine an idea of image down to something more beautiful and succinct. This small gathering of images is about that idea… So if you are like me and don’t make very beautiful sketchbooks take heart! Not all artists are created with the exact same skills. -- source link