"Every artist was first an amateur." Well said, Ralph Waldo Emerson. I would like to add that every (someday great) artist attempts to climb out of that amateur designation at least once; in my case, I've scratched at the walls of mediocrity at least a dozen times. You have no idea how embarrassing it is to post a new "improvement journey" every four months, all the while peeing myself on my Instagram story about how important art fundamentals are.
This website is a digital documentation of my attempts of escape, and, upon my hopeful future success, is meant to become a sort of learning material and curriculum inspiration for artists like me. I think open source education is the proper moral pursuit, so I want my learning process, methods, and resources to be as accessible as possible. If nothing else, this website should be an excellent reference for free or alternatively accessible educational materials.
Why am I so hard-mouthed about this pursuit of artistic excellence, you ask? I don't want an artistic career. I don't want viral attention. Honestly, I really just do it for the love of the game.
I do have a pretentious paragraph on the importance of art and the aspects of human nature and existence that I'd like to communicate through a more skilled medium, but that's neither here nor there. It's more important that I draw my original characters kissing in HD.
I'm a digital artist, and my art and stories are a foundational reflection of who I am. Getting better at communicating my experiences and perspectives is vital to what draws me to art in the first place. This website is a journal to document and an inspiration to stick to that vision-I started it at 20, and I pick it up and put it down as my priorities wax and wane(I'm an electrical engineering student and a horse enthusiast, so time not spent in school is usually then spent in a barn). The goal is always progression, and ideally consistency-but forward is forward, no matter how fast.
these entries were originally taken from aalidraws.wordpress.com, where they will be until I integrate them into this site.