“Slink”
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Symmetry is my greatest challenge! I had to pull out a pencil to help with this one. Anything geometric and symmetrical is a struggle for me! 🖍
What about you? What is challenging for you?
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Here’s a sort of random one. I was writing a LinkedIn post about a company that offers its employees a way to play “lunch roulette”—they made a website that where you can plug in a date and location, and be matched with another employee, all for the purposes of cross-pollination, to help build a more innovative culture. So I wanted to draw “roulette.” 🖍
What I enjoy about #visualcommunication, as opposed to realism — trying to reproduce something as realistically as possible (which I’ve also spent time doing, and which can also be really fun) is the challenge of figuring out how *little* I can do to communicate an idea.
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It’s not about making the drawing look like a photograph (for one thing, if you’re taking notes that would take way too long!), it’s about expressing a concept quickly and efficiently. And ideally elegantly, too. 😊
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In this case, some stacks of chips helped. And when in doubt, adding a word or words will *always* add clarity! 👍 (Donkey looks more like a dog? No problem! Just add a label and all becomes clear.)
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As with all things design-related, it’s all about finding a solution to a problem. The problem being “how to communicate X in pictures?” It’s a fun challenge! 😊
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Swing. #novemberdrawingchallenge day 9. Sketching a bit before bed. My #pigmamicron (05) is dying. I hate that. I try to make these suckers last as long as I can, because the darn things aren’t refillable—they just go to landfill, which I HATE! But when they start to die they don’t flow anymore. It’s so annoying. 🖍
I’m also working on appreciating my style, instead of hating on it. My default reaction to my drawings is to think, “blech… I wish I could draw like So-and-So!” (Hello, Comparison Trap!) I so admire the clean styles that other people have. But no matter what I do, that is not my strength!! It’s not how I draw!! So instead of denigrating how I DO draw, and seeing it as a flaw, a weakness, I’m working on changing the paradigm, and seeing my style as a STRENGTH.
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Individual style is not actually “good” or “bad,” “better” or “worse,” it just IS what it IS. So-and-So’s style isn’t better than mine; it’s simply different. Some people will be attracted to their style, some people will be attracted to my style, some people will be attracted to both styles! 🖍
The most powerful thing any artist can do is lean into your own style. Fully embrace it and become MORE YOU. .
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Some birthday icons to celebrate my birthday. 😊 It’s not a “big” one, but as far as I’m concerned, every year on this planet is cause for celebration! .
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“Freeze”
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