what I'd like to do!

[roxy]

I'd love to start drawing again. It's been so long that I'm afraid to try--silly, no? I did a quick little sketchlet for a story I wrote and it wasn't bad. Not great, but not bad. I have ideas floating in my head but ever since I started writing (something I really wanted to do when I was a Weeroxy but thought I had no talent for), I've been crippled in that regard. It seems like it'd be easy, just pick up a pen and go to town, but no, I just circle the drafting table like an uncertain shark. I used to love it--used to need to do it like breathing. How does that happen?

I think this summer, I'll look into taking some art classes. Maybe after shading my umpteenth drawing of a bowl of plastic fruit, the drive will kick back in. I definitely need to relearn anatomy, and I'd also like not sit in a class full of retirees and headlong-into-elderly broads like myself, because that way lies kittens gamboling on a verdant swath of clover and little boys in top hats handing little girls in pinafores or what-nots daisies, which that kind of thing always vaguely squicked me. I'm asking a lot of an evening art class, I know. :)

Comments

[rednihilist]

I think the night class idea is a great one, hon, and don't be afeared that it will only be full "grandmas." I mean, speaking from personal experience, I took an art night class a year or two ago, and while generally the demo was older people, the sex was split right down the middle, and the pieces produced were anything but tame and cutesy—and this was in Nebraska. I'm sure where you are, you'll get some other delightful freaks in class. :)

I think maybe just start small—like doodling. I went a couple years where I didn't draw a single thing, and then I started doodling trees and landscapes and your average monster face in the margins of my reports and notes, and BAM! It just spiraled from there. Maybe that will work for you. Or, with the night class, maybe a deadline will help, you know, having a definite goal and wanting it to be the best effort because you may or may not be displaying it to others. *shrugs*

Whatever the case may be, your drawing and artsy skills are just sleeping, hibernating if you will. *pat pat (GO PATS!)* As a sidenote, I hope when you are struck again with the Inspiration Mallet, you'll post some of your work here or on lj. I love your many talents, hon! You're an incredibly creative and artistic lady. :)

*snuggles*

[roxy]

Doodling sounds good--I hardly even doodle anymore. That's a better idea instead of throwing myself into a big project--God, I'm so sorry Ross, I swear someday I'll finish you!

Go Pats? At first I thought you must reeeeeeeaally like pats but then I figured it had something to do with tonight's game?

[rednihilist]

At first I thought you must reeeeeeeaally like pats but then I figured it had something to do with tonight's game?

Hee! Both, actually! Pats in all forms are good and worthy of exclamation points! But, yes, Super Bowl-ness. Normally, I would be rooting for the Giants, but I actually went to school with one of the guys on the Patriots team, so—GO PATS! XD

[garryowen]

Ahahah. Well, you're an excellent writer, which proves you can be good at things you thought you had no talent for!

What you need is an evening class w/ nude male models. Y/N?

[roxy]

LOL!! Well, that would be one interesting class, for sure...*GGG*

[tabaqui]

I know the feeling vis a vis having once done something and now finding it hard to pick up again. I still have the lovely, lovely art you made for me, and it still makes my heart happy, so i totally encourage any sort of thing that will let you draw again!
*smoooooooch*

*luffs ya, bb*

[roxy]

You have no idea how ridiculously happy it makes me when you mention that you still have it! *HUGS*

You're like, the most supporty friend in all the world! *BEAMS*

[tabaqui]

What, like i'd just toss 'em or something? Are you nuts?
:)
*smishes you*