THE DRAWING BOARD - Daily updates
July 16th, 2009
Motivation
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Back on the Joker, here I’m working in the true blacks.
Thanks for the comment yesterday Adam, and in regards to what you where talking about. I think that’s why I seem to gravitate toward sketch cards rather than bigger pieces. They’re so quick, it seems to keep them perpetually interesting. Also there’s always something else I want to paint as soon as I’m finished with the one I’m on.
I think, in the beginning it was sort of the general consensus with a lot of people who had watched my art over the years, that when I went to sketch cards and just movie art in general, that I was doing it because it was the ‘hot item’ and that I was kind of pandering to what sells. Its not really true though. I actually love drawing this stuff and its really no different than what I was drawing for myself in my sketch books for fun.
Every time I get on a illustration project from someone. Its cool, and its neat that they actually want to hire me, and all that. By the same token (and I’ve always been this way) I would rather just draw whatever I’m interested in at the moment, and handle the business end of what I’m doing myself. I really like the self-publishing aspect of sketch cards. I’m just not into being a cog in someone else’s wheel.
With the exception of commissions of course, I do like doing commissions. For some reason that seems different to me. Of course I say all this, but if DC called me tomorrow and said “Jeff, we need a Batman cover!” I’d say “ok”
That was a bit of a tangent but I guess it had something to do with the motivation aspect of what I was talking about.
I’m assuming that it was actually Adam Schickling that commented. He’s another really impressive artist that I’ve met through the web. Here’s his site - Link I know Adam was planning on getting into sketch cards and he had showed me quiet a collection. (I especially liked what he did with some of characters from ‘Lost‘) I do watch EBay, but never did see any of his go through there, so I wondered how all that went.
Adam, if you still around, give me an update.
See you tommorrow
Jeff
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