Jolly Rotten’s Skizzenblog

Am knitting vigorously on my jumper the last few days.

Winter may come!

Noyron indeed. The medicine I have to take, which helps me a lot with my illness btw., is responsible for my loss of phantasy! Damn!

The dialogue went literally like this:

Doctor: “How are you doing?”

Me: “Fine.”

*hesitates*

Me: “…except that I lost my phantasy. I have no ideas since over half a year.”

Doctor: ” Well that’s the price you pay when you take those pills, it’s one of the main side-effects. They alter your thoughts and so your creativity.”

Scary!

And why haven’t I noticed? Since over half a year I have to take this medicine, d’oh! And why haven’t I talked this over with a doctor before?

Now I can’t wait to discontinue the pills. But at least I got the reason for all this shit now.

Exams are over and I’m free!

Well, not exactly free thinking of my stupid art-block. That’s why I set up my own therapy a few days ago.

It works like this:

I bought a good sketchbook (Usually I’m not a sketchbook user) and will sketch at least one double page per day in there. And I have to do it! No excuses! But since I have no own ideas, I take something as a reference. Could be anything: a song, something from a book, an illustration, a photography, something I saw, anything. Having that, I try to build the world around it. And it works quite well I must say! And basically that’s how phantasy usually goes, only that I can’t do it automatically and need some help. It’s really still more a progress of constructing something than creating something, but I hope it will change through continious practise.

Now I’d like to share two double pages I came up with, one of them was intentionally Metal themed, because I will start working on my Wacken Comic the next days.

Just returned from my college presentation. All in all it went well, but on the other hand it made me quite sad, because you can see that I haven’t worked on my skills for over half a year now and I’m so sad that I still have lost my phantasie, that I have this neverending artblock. I became one of the people I never wanted to be, people with no phantasie. If I had a wish, I would wish this to end.

And luckily nobody asked for more photos, so I can end this entry.

Bye

Today I had to do a classic photomanipulation in Photoshop: Madonna. Pretty ugly.

And I finally finished my book! A lot of things went wrong while binding it, so it lost a lot from it’s original size and I stitched instead of glued the endpaper etc. But I think it will be good enough for my presentation on monday. I’ve only took a quick shot of it, If there’ll be requests to see more from the inside, I can take some more shots for my next blogpost (when I can tell how my presentation went.).

Having this off my list, I can start learning for another exam.