[shinji69]

Aside of regular figure drawings/sketchings/oil studies, how many artworks,ranging from small paintings on 9x12 board to large size 20X30 board per month/year/semester? For last 11 months I haven't done even one single finished color illustrations. Dozens of sketches from anatomy books and some 30 something pages of doodling, but nothing else. I've been working on 3 illustrations on 15X20 boards, 2 studies from Elvgren paintings and stuff, but never progressed beyond first layer washes.

Well, I've done 2 CRAPOLA mural paintings for NCO prep classrooms. (called ALS) Some stupid painting of a horse riding a tractor and a red horse in a reddish landscape. I've just 'doodled' with colors, not knowing how to control values and light&shadow&forms because of the lack of solid foundation skill and thorough color/value studies. Of course, since I had no knowlege on solid clor theory, the paintings came out being extremely garish. In fact,that was one important reason why I became so berserk during the last few weeks....because I was frustrated with my lack of skill. Anyone smell Van Gogh from me?

I wish I could know what I am exactly doing so that I can churn out color illustrations every 10 days,from the concept to final studies. I wish I could paint at least 50 solid paintings per year,plus dozens of concept designs. (plus hundreds of figure studies per season and dozens of figure/still life/landscape studies in oil,acrylic and gouache)

So,I am curious. How many artworks can you guys do in a certain amount of time?

[ December 05, 2001: Message edited by: shinji69 ]

[extralobe]

I've heard that many painters would lay out sketched compositions on canvas or panel and leave them as-is until someone paid them to work them up.

dunno what that has to do with anything, i was just reminded of it.

[specialbrew]

I think the moral is to not count; the sheer number of finished pieces is far less important than the amount of time you spend just sketching or doing color studies or whatever. Even old Leonardo completed very few 'finished' pieces, in comparison to the uncountable number of sketches he did, but that didn't stop these from being masterpieces.

[ot]

Quality over quantity, as they say..

As much as I can, which generally ends up being very very little between school work and whats left of my social life.

[Anthony]

Drawing is important, although I've noticed that I improve in the time after I draw a lot, when I can reflect and think on art in general. It's all about how you can make yourself improve the fastest, not how fast you work. At least, until you're working for money, then it is about how fast you can work.