Matt Pierson Art: Week 13 in Pierson Land

Hello Art Believers!!!

As usual my weekly blog contains 7self portraits and 7 digital drawings. For the most part I have been keeping a low profile when it comes to work. This weeks digital work are of Caterpie, another Poke'mon character. I think I might try draw the first 150 by that time I might be half way decent at digital work. I can say I did an absolute awful job drawing Caterpie, since I try to only spend 30 minutes a day on these digital works I failed to really dial in these drawings. Another part that was difficult I was finding the cartoon too be so simple that I was making the image more difficult than necessary. On Saturday I tried approaching the drawing of Caterpie differently, with results that were less to be desired. Overall I think this batch of drawings to be particularly sloppy.

The reason I show everyone these terrible drawings is because of drawing transparency. I think people misjudge how many pieces people work on before they get moderately good at something. these digital drawings are case in point. I have made thousands of bad drawings, but I don't hide them, I show them with a sense of pride. Probably because you may argue on the merits of the drawing but you can't argue the efforts and time put into these drawings. I have read articles about Instagram and how the people on there deceive their followers by posting the "perfect" photo of themselves. I am the opposite showing you the failures and progress. I am not hiding my deficiency as an artist. I am to some degree ashamed of my drawings. I don't like taking credit of bad drawings I have done. But as an artist I have to own up to my work and improve from it. It's marathon not a sprint. Thank you and please enjoy this weeks addition to my blog.

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