Sketches or finished pieces?

[Colleen♡Callie]

So I'm more one of those artist that will often use up the entire page with many different rough sketches, many times overlapping each other.  I love these pages and sketches.  They are when I seem the most free and seem to bring the most gesture and personality into the sketches.  It also makes it a lot of fun to back and look at old sketch books, and rediscover neat little doodles and sketches you've forgotten about.

My weakness however is working towards a finished polished piece.  I'm slowly learning to keep and get that freedom I have when randomly doodling and sketching into finished pieces, but it's a huge uphill battle.

So which is your strength?  Random unpolished sketches?  Or finished pieces?  Or are you one of the lucky ones that do both with equal ease?

[Lauren5]

I get you on the issues with finishing pieces, projects in general. Probably something to do with ADHD, or perhaps loving to create, not necessarily complete, or a combination of both.

The rough sketch is definitely my strength. In art class junior year of high school, my final drafts of drawings were actually worse than the sketches, even if I had traced them onto the final paper.

[Colleen♡Callie]

The rough sketch is definitely my strength. In art class junior year of high school, my final drafts of drawings were actually worse than the sketches, even if I had traced them onto the final paper.

This.  I'm very slowly getting better, but yeah.  The second I even turn the same sketch into a finished pieced it loses its gesture and personality and becomes strangely rigid, even if all I did was darken the lines to clean it up.