Drawing And Trying Not To Hate It

[@mikigzaielart]

Tack för alla dina videos, tankar kring kreativitet å inspiration! God jul! 🎄❤️

[@edlundart]

God jul og godt nytt år! And, thanks for watching!

[@samdavepollard]

First time watching one of your videos As a hobbyist who came to 'art' in my late 50s (about ten years ago) i'm often torn between 'should i learn to draw?' or 'should i do the digital thing?' i dabble in both - ballpoint pen and paper for most of my analogue stuff, and a bunch of different programs. When i pick up a pen i feel yeah, this is where i belong, i love the looseness of just making marks, not having to bother with all that 'snap-to-grid' crap and defining colors as hex codes; then i fire up a vector drawing program and think oh, wow, why don't I just do THIS all the time? (Focusing on one thing all the time would kill me; like i always say, i'm 100% focused on being a generalist.) Here in the uk we don't have those fire hydrants that you guys have dotted along the sidewalks (or pavements as we call them). I've always been fascinated by them. FWIW I thought all of your drawings were really cool. But yeah, that dark background didn't really do it for me either. When I saw you drawing the lights I thought they were chains; don't the hydrants have some sort of chain on them, to stop one of the caps getting separated from the main part? Anyway, one thing's for sure - I want those watercolor pens! Wishing you and your art all the best for the year ahead. Underrated channel. Subbed.

[@edlundart]

Hey, what a great comment! I am constantly doing that same cycle - when I do stuff digitally, I get pulled in by the precision allowed and my ability to endlessly refine what I'm doing until it is extremely competent work. And I love some of the things I can do in that realm, I love the very designed, sharp, slick things I can do with it. But then when I draw on paper, while it reveals my shortcomings in an uncomfortable way, it also just feels very free and loose, and it suggests to me a path forward that is more artful and more capable of showing personality and expression. But it's also kind of a messier process, I have to dig out my tools and put it all away, etc. You're right that my lights looked more like chains, and typically lights would not be so close together like that. I've seen some hydrants with chains, but I don't think they all have them. I have a similar fascination with hydrants, they were just objects in cartoons when I was a little kid growing up in Norway. Same thing with American mailboxes and so on. It sounds like we are both "100% focused on being a generalist" - that's well said. I enjoy so many different creative things, which I hope will keep getting clearer as I make more videos. Thanks for watching, commenting, and subscribing! And, happy holidays and a happy new year to you.