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1:28 PM, Monday February 3rd 2020

Hey doom, when I am feeling stuck or having trouble drawing I like to start putting down blobs for things like space ships or what have you (a really light marker helps with this) and seeing what pops out at me. Another cool technique I like to do is take an everyday object and turn it into something else, as popularized by spacegoose! I have had other students find success with drawing for fun by starting with automatic drawing as explained in this proko video.

Obviously I'm more of a hard surface and vehicle kind of artist, so I will be looking forward to others' opinions and techniques when it comes to drawing things like characters and animals! I hope this offers some direction and if you have any questions, let me know!

4:55 AM, Tuesday February 4th 2020

From the perspective of someone more into organics and in a similar vein, I like mushing different animals together, messing with their proportions and making some truly horrific monstrosities. I tend to do them from imagination but there's nothing stopping you looking up a reference and seeing how you can join a goat to a duck. Sometimes while drawing an animal, I might see a line that I messed up that looks kind of like something else and I'll run with it and the drawing becomes something else entirely to what I intended and often really weird, but that's okay because in the moment it made sense to me!

1:23 PM, Tuesday February 4th 2020

Thanks a lot! Definitely going to try that spacegoose thing =)

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