[Awetopsy]

Ive been learning this painting thing for the last little while.. studying different artists here and sorta realearning everything..

anyway, I started drawing my Ninja turtles pic, a while back and as I was drawing it I started thinking about other projects and other experiments I'd like to try so I stopped working on the Ninja turtles thing and started doing a skintone experiment...

the question is, does anyone else here interrupt their current to try other things sometimes and then go back to the original one? or is it generally bad to do that?

thanx

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[Pigeon]

nothing wrong with going back to an old project. Taking a break from your work can give you a fresh perspective when come back to it. I usually have 4 or so projects going on a time, and I can bring things I learn while working on one piece to the others I'm working on.

Hey, Monet would work on multiple haystacks a day, switching from one to the next as the light changed. Not quite the same thing as if he had worked on Ninja Turtles right around noon, but you get the picture.

Carry on!


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-Pigeon
http://www.darklight.org/dunakin

[Goddess Dezi]

I do that quite frequently. I think it is a good thing. It means things inspire you, not that you are scatterbrained. Besides, I like being scatterbrained...sometimes

[DiXter]

I seem to have the same problem..
Start a project draw until i get tired of it or start somthing else, and leave it unfinnished..

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[Staff Sarge]

Well, all I have is a pile of unfinished pictures. I keep on getting back working on them when I come up with a new idea or improvement. I'd say I'm usually working on 1 to 3 projects at the same time.

In a whole, I'm not satisified with any of my pictures. I tend to see only the faults and mistakes in them rather than the good things... I'm certain that I'll never be able to do a "perfect" picture.

[neebhore]

Yeah i do that. Get a sudden flash of inspiration half way through another drawing, best to get it down straight away though, or you might lose the inspiration. Alot of my stuff tends to remain un-finished. Also when i go off and do something different, i learn a new style or technique, then go back to the old pik with this new style, carry on where i left off, and then it starts to look different in places, or i just redo the whole thing, and it looks much better. You get me?

[wayfinder]

well i dont usually do it with paintings as i tend to make small shitty stuff that doesnt deserve going back to

but it is common practise with music for me.
i sometimes hav more than a year between starting and finishing a song.


neebhore: i think the dutch speaking people on this board might find it quite amusing that you keep going back to old piks

[This message has been edited by wayfinder (edited March 22, 2001).]