Time pressure and art quality
7d
Christopher Corbell
A challenge I have with art, maybe partly due to where my skills are at, is that if I do something in a rush it really doesn't look very good. Even when I practice getting faster, like with timed gesture drawings, I need to take about twice the time that I see accomplished artists take, e.g. I need about 3 minutes to do what I see more experienced artists doing in 90 seconds. This is true for any project though, and it's fine when I have plenty of time to not rush, and I can see that translate to better drawings. It's part of learning any craft. But sometimes it's hard to have that open-ended time to draw between work and other obligations and daily time needs.
I think this is a universal challenge - how do you approach it? When you have limited time, do you limit the scope of what you try to draw? Do you stretch a project out through several short sessions instead of trying to finishing it in one? Or do you work on skills to intentionally make yourself faster? How's your relationship with your limited free time and your art?