In the beginning…

So, the LP video-making process is going slowly.  I promised them in my last post and they will be coming once I find the time to actually do the commentary for the ones I have recorded.  But that’s not why I’m making that post tonight.

Recently, I made the decision that I would like to enter the field of Information Technology… after spending six years getting a degree in a different field.  Not my best achievement, but at least I can say I graduated from college, so that’s something I guess.  While I was making this decision, I realized that there would be a series of skills that I would have to develop to at least a halfway decent state; one of them being drawing.  If I end up doing anything web related, I would most likely have to create a great deal of my own content.

I have no clue really where to start in learning to draw other than to just practice doing it repetitively.  While in high school and college, I would doodle when bored in class.  It was there that ran into the problem that I couldn’t think of things to draw.  So I came up the idea of “Blind draw.”

“Blind draw” is when I either close my eyes or look anywhere but the paper and let the pencil do what it wanted for a couple seconds then see if I make that into something, with mixed results.  I plan on using that method as it is one that I’m familiar with and, well, I’m running pretty much blind.  I don’t plan on getting any major aid from the much better artists around me on the Fort beyond initial advice unless I am totally stumped or decide I want to do a shared project or something.  Nothing against them, it’s just I’m trying to make this interesting for myself and the viewing audience with schadenfreudic tendencies.

On that note, I am also adding to the challenge a bit more, *ahem*, interesting.  I’m going to limit myself to only about 2 minutes for each drawing.  I do this for a few other reasons: 1) if I didn’t have a time limit, the drawing would never be finished, and 2) this allows me to do these drawings just about anywhere at anytime.

tl;dr:

LP videos up eventually.  Starting to document my learning to draw for you’re viewing enjoyment and my ability to look back at my progression.

“Too Minutes” is born.