Just for crazy people (24h-o-art)

[Alzorath]

I was thinking of something, in my thinking spot (porcelain throne ;)), and thought of something to help build my endurance and speed while drawing (sorta jumped off of a memory of some comic book thing - where people spent 24 hours drawing a comic). Basically, I plan to set aside certain nights where I have the time to stay up for 24 hours, then crash, to just draw (start when I wake up, continue until I sleep). Aiming for 1 or more sketch-pages per hour (later on changing to 1 rough composition per hour, then 1 concept per hour, and keep moving up like that).

Was just curious how many people would be interested in maybe making it also a thunderdome kinda thing if I ever get the free time to pull a 24 hour stretch? (or if anyone else wanted to start one, it'd be cool :P).

Basically it'd be announced a couple weeks in advance (2 or so) so people would have time to prepare, and every hour for 24 hours a new topic would be listed - all entries would be due at the end of that 24 hours, then people would vote on the group of 24 they thought was best (ala - standard thunderdome).

Could be a running theme (ie different topics all geared towards 1 world, each just a different aspect of it) - or widely varied themes...

Anywho...yea, rambling...tired atm...just thought I'd see if anyone else thought it'd be a good idea - or if it's just the caffine and orange juice talking ;).

[Dile_]

I dunno, but If you really got the motivation and will to draw for 24 hours, why arent you drawing now ? I mean, if you had that motivation you would improve like hell, although Im afraid that those pages are just "I did em because I just had to" > quantity > instead of understanding em, what ever its studies, or concepts, it doesnt matter, you'll still have to spend more time on your pages then one hour, at least thats what Ithink.
Oh well, this isnt stopping anyone from testing.

~Dile

[Alzorath]

Little bit of irony - I was actually sitting here at the computer drawing when you posted that (was working on sketch #60 from about 2:50-3:45pm, your post was at 3:05 pm :D), went to eat, then hopped online just now (around 6:00pm) - sketch #59 was done immediately before #60 :). (sketch #s in reference to my sketchbook). Although I went to sleep not too long after posting (did a few 'throwout sketches' during that)

The Thunderdome idea would basically be a competition type thing. Not "forcing" people to do the entire thing, it's more of an endurance challenge than anything.

As for me doing it personally, I've only made it to about 16 hours solid before, never 24 - but I'm willing to try :). (it's not about quantity when doing personal practice - some pages only take 30 minutes, others take 2 hours...)

1 hour is more than enough to fill a 9"x12" page with referenced "studies" (not fully rendered images, but sufficiently rendered to depict mass/form as percieved). Especially if I switch to charcoal instead of graphite for my media :) (2 hours in charcoal for me is akin to 4 hours in graphite for me).

Anywho...was just prodding for interest...apparently there's not enough interest for a thunderdome project :) - so I'll just stick to planning them for myself occassionally.

[Magic Man]

I honestly don't think thats going to do much for you. But good luck anyhow.

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[black_fish]

Sounds plain stupid to me.

[Tack]

I think it sounds kinda fun, maybe it would be cool to also change your location as well as what you were working on, like go outside and work for a few hours etc.

[ah.heng]

i feel that while still at a learning stage, forcing yourself to draw for long hours will only induce burnout. from my experience, drawing any longer than 3 hours non-stop exhausts my mind so much that i find it hard to continue drawing anything productive, they usually end off with silly doodles, the kind of stuff non-artists do, flowers, cats, cute faces.

i've found it more effective to set aside slots of time throughout the day to draw. wake up and draw for 2-3 hours, go to school/work, come home and draw another 2-3 hours, rest, cook dinner, do some relaxational sketching for another 1-2 hours then rest.

[CGMonkey]

I did a similiar thing with a friend.. Forced ourself to do alot of studies on a long period of time. It was mad, we almost poked eachother's eyes out with the wacom pen.. but it was the most rewarding experience in my creative life thus far.