GIG's Art and Music Potpourri

[bigpotato]

Random doodles are a great way to let out some creativity. I'm currently trying to get more doodles on paper than on my notes. But what do you mean by "thinking in three dimensions?" Do you mean making my art look more 3D than 2D?

Art tries to represent things. Things exist in 3d. Most (though not all) art tries to look at least sort of like what it's supposed to be. So it's often helpful to think of how the thing you're drawing would look in real life.

Take all those noses for example. I can't really picture how they'd look on an actual face. If I had to guess, I'd say you know that noses kinda bump at the top and stick out at the bottom (At least, I hope so. If you didn't I would be concerned), so you draw them that way. If you were to have a fancy arteest draw a nose, however, even a cartoony one, they'd be thinking about how it's made of spheres and boxes and which parts overlap the other parts and where it's going to cast the most shadow. Stuff like that.

At least, that's what I imagine other artists do. 'Fraid I can be of too much help there. I'm still more often than not putting lines together because "that's what it looks like".