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Super Sucky Selfie Sketchby ~LaurenMontgomery

Fan Art / Cartoons & Comics / Traditional / Games

I used to draw sketch in books all the time. They were easier to carry around in a backpack during school. But lately, after drawing storyboards for many years, and converting to drawing mostly on the cintiq with an unlimited number of undos, I've found myself having performance anxiety when I try to draw anything in a sketchbook these days. There's a feeling of having to come up with a drawing that's good the first time, versus being able to draw and redraw until it's good enough. I'm always afraid I'll keep ripping out pieces of paper with crap drawings on them until I'm left with a sketchbook that's 10 pages thick.

On the other hand, sketchbooks also force you to take a drawing for what it is. There is a limited number of time you can erase something when you're using paper and sadly, you cannot select and recenter drawings like you could in photoshop or any other computer drawing program. Such is the case with this crappy Selfie sketch. No matter how many times I erased her hair, it still looks like poop. And there's no real way for me to move the entire drawing up so I can eliminate the horrible tangent of the foot just barely kissing the end of the paper......this drawing needs a lot of help, but it's in a sketchbook, so it's not going to get it. In conclusion, sketchbooks keep me honest.

~shedano Apr 28, 2012 Student Filmographer

I use my tablet like I use my sketchbook/paper... that's because I almost never erase. The effort to pick up the eraser is too great for my lazy self and it's easier to just start a new line and create something else out of the messed up line.

~Yuko-Sempai Sep 18, 2010

I honestly think this looks so good!! And not because I'm not hat great but because she still has a sense of realism to her and porpotions are accurate. Her face seems a bit off...but it also matches her character. And I like her boots. XDD
In short I like this sketch a lot!!
And I too have sketchbook anxiety. Always get one and seem to do the "must draw amazing stuff" in it.

~MDPrty May 6, 2010

ummm I don't wanna sound like a perv but that's hot?

~SP-Groove Aug 16, 2009

oh gosh.
you dont realize how much i love the way you draw.
you're such a beast at poses despite your performance anxiety, i still very much admire this sketch.
do you ever use references & from where?
did you use a reference for this sketch?

~LaurenMontgomery Aug 17, 2009 Professional Filmographer

I use reference from everywhere. Artbooks, life, photos, magazines... etc. However, none was used for this sad drawing.

~HersheyGQ Jun 2, 2009

I appreciate your honesty and I'm glad that someone like yourself has really broken down your thought process behind sketchbooks and drawing and media. These artistic probings are beneficial for a deeper, more intimate relationship with our work. Bravo.

~yaderu Mar 10, 2009

I feel the same as u say. I erase all the time and gets messy is horrible >_< is a pain. Now that I have a tablet and use photoshop or painter I adore layers and also I can more the drawing and put it on center and clean it up more easily.

*HughFreeman Jan 6, 2009 Student Filmographer

heh most of my sketchbooks have 70% of the pages ripped out, got a beautiful superquality sketchbook for christmas, too scared to draw anything in that lol

Cool draw!

~Durkee341 Dec 8, 2008 Professional Writer

Haha, w00t for sketchbook honesty!

~alsasson Dec 5, 2008

cyute, i love it!!! so perfect!!!

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