[hunter_rose0]

Someitmes, like everyone I get into an inspirational slump. Crap ideas and no motavation to draw. One tecnique I use to generate Ideas when I'm feeling this way is to generate conceptual sketches from scribbles. I am allways supprised at the results. If anyone else tries this, or wants to try this let me see what you've come up with. Also if you have some other drawing tecnique that you use to get ideas when you're starting a illustration tell me about it. I'll try to take one of my scribble sketches through from start to finish here.

[hunter_rose0]

[Kaete]

Did you ever play Scribble as a kid? That's what my brothers and I would do on long car trips. One person makes a crazy scribble, then they pass it on the next person who has to turn it into a picture. When you're done making a picture, then you start a new scribble for the next person.

[jome]

Yes, I've had this tip from one of my teachers. He used a variation of it: trying to put a melody onto paper, and then finding the interesting shapes in the scribbles.
And finishing a scribble someone else put on paper is a true classic.

[Walkaer]

I actually do this often, myself. I just let my hand go w/out looking at the page for about five minutes. Though I pick out a few forms and draw over the scribbles, I've never drawn inspiration from them for a major work, that I can think of. huh.

[EviLToYLeT]

wow.interesting things you picked up from those scribbles...

guess you have a great ability to see things

[hunter_rose0]

I chose the centre figure from my sketches to work on finishing. I'll have to try the melody on paper idea. The working from someone else's sketches idea is fun, but I allways have a nagging feeling that the art isn't mine when I'm finished. Here's the painting so far.


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[lookitsfrank]

this is really fun. here's a 5 minute or so effort. I have to do more of these; it gets rid of the intimidation of the blank canvas and gets the pen moving..

[hunter_rose0]

Here's how the finished art is coming along. Cool sketches lookitsfrank, thanks for posting them.

[lookitsfrank]

looking good hunter. here's some more fun to draw crap.

[notic]

interesting technique.
i bet it's good when you're out of ideas, some of the sketches that appears looks quite creative

[jabber]

this kinda of reminds me something my screenplay teacher taught me. We were talking about writers block, and he said there is no such thing. No matter what, you can still write, maybe just not the particular thing you are working on, but you can still write. His method to get back into the flow of things was to just start writting, not worrying about making sense, plot, characters or anything. Just more of a rambling. As you wrote, you would pose questions to yourself, like, "So this little penguin sits ontop of my monitor" what does it do? Is it doing anything now? That kinda stuff. I've been trying to apply this train of thought to drawing as well and seems to work.

I think that this scribble idea is another form of this. Its might impressive.

[hunter_rose0]

(image posted in finished work)
This was a fun experiment for me. I had never taken one of my odd little scribble sketches all the way to a finished piece until now. Great story jabber, especially the idea of posing questions. I tend to focus more on the form and rendering of my art than the situations of the cointent. The character in this piece is doing nothing.
Posing little questions like yours seems like a good idea for creating an interesting action for an illustration. I'll have to try it out, thanks.
Here is the finished art.




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[Cleoric]

I do this for most of my stuff (not a serious artist, so...) If only I had a scanner to post some stuff