Creative Funk

I have been in a creative funk for about two months. I guess it is the same thing as writers block. Anyway, it has been very difficult to get any work done or to even want to do any work. Obviously I did not even finish my Halloween art.

Here is a starting post. I find that the only way to get out of the doldrums is to work .... even when it is hard and unrewarding. Maybe I will get brave and post some of the few additional sketches I finished.

This drawing is black and white Prismacolor pencils with some black watercolor. I have done a bit of post work in Photoshop.

October equals Halloween

I love October and by extension, Halloween. There is no other time all year when you can get away with drawing about anything you want and not having your sanity questioned. I had the best intentions of posting a new sketch each day until Halloween. Alas, I got sidetracked and didn't start. I am starting today, not committing to one a day, but will post 31 sketches this month like the last couple years.

These drawings are all out of my sketchbooks. They have been enhanced or altered some in Photoshop and Painter to hopefully make them more interesting.

Here are the first seven.

121 Through 140

The last few posts on the 200 sketch challenge. Didn't quite make it. Hope you enjoy them anyway.

Silly Me!

On December 15th, one of my students posted a challenge on the Facebook page starting a challenge of doing 100 sketches over the Christmas Break. Didn't sound like it was illegal, immoral, or fattening so I thought, what the heck, why not give it a try. THEN, then that "little voice" part of my brain said, "If 100 is good, 200 is better". Now, this normally would not be a problem if I could keep my mouth shut or my fingers from typing about the passing thought. Unfortunately, that little voice is sometimes a "special kind of stupid" and I do like a challenge so I posted publicly that I would do 200. D'oh!

Tonight I start posting the sketches I have done since December 15th. I was a bit lenient on myself. I figured that if I spent 15 minutes or the image was recognizable then the sketch would count. I broke up multiple sketches on single pages into individual images.

Truth be known, I am probably not going to get to 200. Too many naps in the afternoon. I will continue to see how many I can actually get done by the beginning of the semester on January 6th.

I am going to post the sketches in groups of 20 so the math is easy for me to do.