Here we are in Chattanooga. Still struggling to stay focused, keep motivated to sketch and observe. Drawing is easy when it's subject matter that you're good at, when it's an image that you've drawn before and like drawing. Drawing other stuff, like a bunch of bricks in a wall, is significantly more difficult. There's a story in "
The DC Comics Guide to Inking Comics" where Klaus Janson recalls another inker who preferred to go through the job, inking their most preferred subject matter first, leaving all the most boring inking for last. He warns against this, rightly, because who could stand to look at 20 plus pages of inking buildings? Other than someone who loves inking buildings, I suppose.
So part of the struggle, then is finding something to appreciate in subject matter that isn't what you prefer. Observing something even when you're already bored of it, already trying to find shortcuts to avoid drawing it. A toxic combination of boredom and fear of drawing poorly, I find, is what makes me run away from the blank pages of my sketchbook.
Instead, read this - and see how beautiful it is, for someone who finds the beauty in the boring things.
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