Art Epiphany--No/Little Art From Me For a Bit

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I've been drawing for 12 years. Honestly, I feel like I should draw better than I do now. Last night I was reading tutorials, I found a way to see if I've just been holding myself back.

Despite reading a lot of books and tutorials saying otherwise, I always thought you were supposed to finish a drawing in one go, lest you "lose the inspiration" for the piece...or something. Because of this, I've always drawn and colored fast, none of my drawings have ever taken more than a couple hours, let alone a day or more.

I was looking at some tutorials on mixed media, thinking I could experiment a bit with my colored pencils and watercolors. I looked at the finished piece the person made in the tutorial, and they said "I stopped counting how long it took after 14 hours".

Then I looked at my most recent drawing, the one I was so proud of:

Don't Touch Her! by SlightlyWinged
It only took me about an hour and a half, tops. Fifteen minutes or so to sketch and ink, and about an hour to color and shade.

And now I'm wondering...what would happen if I slowed down, and took some time to add details to my art, instead of rushing to get them done?

So I'm going to do about 2-3 drawings, and I'm going to take my time on them and see what comes of it. I don't know if I'll make anything in between making them, but I thought I should warn you all that there probably won't be any art from me for a bit.

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hmm, yeah that's a good plan. The only reason I don't take too long with art is I'm trying to learn how to speed things up D:. Thing is I'm planning to write a online graphic novel so I have to learn to get a full page done in a few hours if I want the plot to move at any rate so I'm learning to simplify things and discover shortcuts. THAT SAID if your goals is fancier high quality pieces you do need to take your time about it because there's only so fast the human hand can work :U. So yeah take it whatever way your goals happen to be pushing.