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New Sketchbook

New Sketchbook

I just started a new sketchbook a couple of days ago. It always makes me nervous to start a new book. I always feel this weird pressure to make the very first drawing beautiful, like a first impression or something.
I decided to break it in with some drawings of trees. Gosh i love trees... im not a weird tree hugger or anything but i dunno, theres something comforting about them. Where i grew up in Chicago we had tons of trees, and lotsa forrest areas. I loved it, and miss them a lot. Tolkien once called trees "the messangers of all nature to us." I dont really know what that means but it sounds poetic! Sometimes its easy to forget to just draw for fun. Ive always kinda been a guy who draws with purpose... once i got to CalArts i met a lot of people who just drew endlessly. Everything, everyone-- i was amazed at their stamina. and it definately rubbed off. In my younger years i drew quick sketches of humans and animals to get into Disney. Once that all fell apart, i started to actually draw for the sheer joy of it. A VERY healthy thing. Its so good for an artist to just wander in his or her mind creatively on the page. Things dont have to make sense, and often times thats when we do our most fresh work.

Animals fascinate me! I think if i wasnt an animator i might want to work with animals. But, its a far second to being an animators, trust me. I just LOVE getting National Geographics and studying the way the behave, their gestures, their movement, there "thinking". Anyone who knows me well, knows i am a Christian and i can say this with all sincerity, God is my favorite artist. Yeah, i dismiss evolution, how could all this beauty be a random mistake? It takes more faith for me to be an evolutionist than to be a creationist. Think about it: if i through my pencil and sketchbook in the air a million times in a row in hopes that theyd create something unique, chances are i would get nothing that makes sense or is understandable, or even functional. Thats exactly what evolution claims, that everything happened by random chance, not by intention. Not to get one a soap box, i just hate to take away to Glory that is rightfully belonging to the Creator. Gods the most original artist i know of... can you make a new color? I sure cant... one of the reasons i love being an artist is because i feel Gods pleasure of creating when i draw. He gave me this gift, only to Glorify Him, no other reason.

Blogging brings out interesting things in me sometimes, ha! on other news though Ive been keeping up on Curious George movie reviews. Ive only read one bad one out of 10. Not bad, not bad at all. Lets hope it rocks the house this weekend! Until next time enjoy the drawrins

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