Silly Rules, Better Life

# Silly Rules

Hello ^⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠^

I was sitting there about the new article, having no idea what to post... When an illumination came.

As Artists we use rules, less or more conscious about them and they vary person to person.

Let me introduce you to some of mines :

- FINISHING one sketchbook after using/buying a new one

- Using BARELY the eraser while sketching/drawing

- NO LINE ART

- BE HAPPY with the MESSY/UGLY results

- Learning from my OLD drawings, what i would change in the future

- TRYING to use (simple) composition in larger paintings

- Using often bigger brushes, for training SIMPLIFICATION

- Establishing a color palette BEFORE painting (Most of the time)

- Sharpening barely the pencil (the truth is I hate having woodenflakes EVERYWHERE)

- Trusting the process, even when it doesn't look good

- Having a reference or inspiration piece

So let me ask you a question, what are YOUR rules while making art ?

They aren't real *rules*, but the brain interprets them like this, and sometimes you will respect them or break them.

For spotting them, flip through your art pieces, look at them and ask yourself: What I do often, while drawing/sketching/painting ?

Finding answer to these questions will maybe or maybe not improve your art and mostly yourself.

Me not doing line art, is because... It's too stressful... Tapping redo several times for just one line among hundreds ? I can't...

Also trying to use simple composition in larger paintings, it's because of filmmaking. The way how they *tell stories* through composition, is mind-blowing to me.

Being happy with the messy/ugly, it's -don't laugh- because I don't want bothering with "redrawing". I don't have that time either the energy.

So, flip through your sketchbook, note your rules & try to find out why you apply them.

# Fun Facts

- Voyager 1 (what means traveling in french) is the first human object that ever left the solar system and also the most distant human-made object in existence.

# Referral Video

The immortal decay

Cheap but useful