Creativity and Drawing Fundamentals
Cartoons
I've started drawing a lot of cartoons - quick sketches are awesome practice, and I think there's
a lot of value in exploring the absurdities of the animated world. Realism is overshadowed by
expression, which helps push the boundaries of creativity. Boiling an idea down to its
simplist expression is deceptively difficult - there are fewer lines, but those lines have to
be on point. So cartooning gives me a lighter, more humourous medium within which I can work
on fundamental drawing skills while breaking down creative barriers.
Exercises
It's important to keep practicing - a painting is only as good as the drawing it started
with. To that end, I have a number of exercises I do to improve my skills. One of them
I call Draw 9 - which is exactly what it sounds like. I take a subject I need to work on,
and I draw it 9 times, in order to get a better sense of what it looks like, with the
differences and similarities in different examples.
