Quote from: Ghost on Fri 10/05/2013 14:35:49I had a similar experience a few years back. At that time the job I had then allowed for me to draw more than 6h a day for roughly 7-8 weeks. At one point it felt like it didn't go anywhere 'new'.
I feel that I tend to use the same poses and general body types over and over again, and far too often [...] It feels as if I've just learned to create a couple of basic shapes, and whenever I try out new stuff the habitual lines get in the way.
What I did was deliberately breaking my own drawing style for a few sessions. For example, usually I prefer smooth flowing lines and almost despise geometric shapes. So I simply started to draw everything I wanted to draw with very short straight lines and no smooth curves, just 'straight edge'
and angular.I was really, REALLY suprised what came out of that 'new look'. I looked at those pics and it felt as if someone else had drawn those. Some elements of those experiments I incorporated into my usual drawing style. But even if not, these kind of experiments felt as if they helped to 'inform'(?) my own commonly used style (rather difficult to describe). Hope that makes any sense.
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