I have this thing I do while watching TV, it may not come as a surprise, but I tend to doodle and sketch in what some might call “down time”
This has led to the drawing you see above, and really countless like it. Through this little exercise I have found that I more or less tend to draw the same drawing over and over. It is mostly a portrait, almost always in 3/4 profile and nearly every-time of a woman. For lack of a better word, Let’s call it my “style”.
this particular format is somewhat restricting and maybe not the most exiting thing to look at after you have seen it 200 times, but it is what I find myself doing. This is actually why I do as much practice as I do (I tend to practice 30 minutes to 1 hour of practice daily). My hope is that as I get better at drawing, my preference in what I draw will shift and with it my “style”.
The funny thing to me, is when people say that they are trying to find their style. to me it has the cadence of someone trying to find themselves, it is utterly pointless. You are who you are and your style is whatever you tend to draw the most. This does not mean that you can’t change and better yourself, it just means that you will most likely revert to wherever you feel the most comfortable.
This is how I know that I will most likely keep drawing the portraits, as I will stay myself, But maybe sometime in the future I will have become so good a talent that I can branch out and do entire bodies. This is not so much a question of changing my style as it is a question of furthering it.
when you have a blog that you update daily, there is allot of doodling involved. most of it is terrible, and more often than not, the stuff that I deem medeocre is what end up on the blog.
Sylvester Hansen 