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GabrielleBrickey — Charcoal Drawing Process
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For anyone who finds drawing progress pictures interesting.
I thought I'd post this, because so often I want to give up on drawings when they are stuck in the phase like you see in the first picture. I want to give up too quickly and just throw the drawing away and start a new one! But lately I've had to remind myself, often portraits need to go through "the ugly door", as my art teachers have said, before they get better. So just as encouragement to anyone else like myself who sometimes struggles with the urge to quit!
Thanks for looking and happy arting. 
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I also run into that "ugly" feeling early in the process, but I manage to trudge through to the finished product. And I, too, like to snap pictures showing the progress. It's sort of fun to look back and see what you went through to get the finished piece. I do that with my charcoal drawings and my paintings.
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Oh my, I know way too well that itching feeling of surrendering before you're barely begun. It usually always does pay to persevere though! Art is such a mysterious (and more often than not frustrating!!) thing
Great work, by the way!
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thanks a lot! Yes, my urge also comes with ripping the drawing up! (never good lol)
Usually I find if I walk away for a little bit and come back I'm like, its not that bad! Then I continue working and it gets better. XD
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I would agree. (: Sometimes when you take a break, you also can see mistakes you didn't see before, and that's always a good thing (providing you can fix them!)
There's always something satisfying about actually finishing a piece you've worked hard on, though. Though Leonardo da Vinci once said that 'art is never really finished, only abandoned'. I suppose the plus side is that we never really stop learning and improving.
P.S. Thank you very much for the favourite <3 (;
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welcome
Yes, finishing a piece or whatever you call it is always very satisfying
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You're welcome! Keep up the fantastic work!
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this! I do the exact same thing, I have so many unfinished drawings in my sketchbooks, more often than not I'm stalling and cursing myself out and all that. I love progression pictures, I like seeing how people work out their different methods. 
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Thanks a lot! So sometimes I stop working because the drawing looks bad. But sometimes I'll even stop in the early stages bc the drawing looks good and I don't want to ruin it! hah so I will sometimes leave my works in a "good" stage. But even then, I must remember to push for better, even though I have a fear of ruining it. One of my teachers once told me, if you did it good once, you can do it well again! So never fear! (easier said then done lol)
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Same here, with the "good" stage, well the getting stuck part.
I like that saying. (yes, definitely easier said then done, hehe)
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Lovely! Thanks for sharing the process. I completely agree with the "ugly door" phase. I like it when my drawing are horrible at begining maybe it because I'm less scare of "ruin it"
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Thanks a lot! I like that too. It's when you get about 5 hours in that the ugly door really stinks! hah. But even then I think it's possible to push through
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