Unlocking Passion (Part 4)

Welcome to Part 4 of Unlocking Passion. This is a deep exercise to help people discover their Passions and take the reigns of it no matter where they are in life. If you are brand new to this segment you should start in the first segment and work your way up to the latest. I am not a professional just a common person like you wishing to help you along the way. Unlocking Passion parts 1, 2, and 3. Alright beautiful people lets take a step back and see what we have explored about our current passion of choice.

First to answer the question that is coming to mind: “Why take so long to make the next part?” Well first it is to clarify a few points. 1. When you are exploring your passion one key you have to keep in mind is Time. Patience is a very important aspect because nothing is instant. Now forgive me but if you were sitting at your computer and itching to get more information week after week then you really weren’t trying to explore your passion like you should have. Another key element is work. Yes it is a lot of hard work. Some of your passion you run through your supplies like water. For others your time doesn’t exist as your time but as someone else as you make things for them. If hard work and dedication really aren’t your things then you should take the time to answer your own question of why do this when other instant things are out there for you.

Now that we are clear that Passions take Patience and Dedication then we can begin our segment for Part 4! Now unfortunately I can not post a character design on here because I need to have the creative tag on it. But I did work on a sheet of one of my characters. So please keep this in mind as we explore our personal thoughts.

Alright you should have the evidence of the Passion you were working on the past month or so by you. I want you to take the time out to look through your works. How did you feel when you worked on them? Did you do research on your passion? Did you get a chance to talk to someone about their passion? Did you go anywhere to explore your options? What you did is very important and the knowledge you gained is just as vital. Now remember I did a positive and negative chart in out last Part? You will be doing this now for yourself.

As an artist I tend to go through emotions when I draw. Reasons vary but the main keys is: being in the image I wish to convey to the world, capture the attitude of a character and portray them correctly, and the aide I use affects me. What do I mean by aide? Well that also is a range of things and you can find them in my first post called the Art of a Blank Wall. I will use:

Sable for my Lycan Goji. Again I am not releasing much information about my characters but follow my other sites and you will meet him. The aura and beat of this song helped me draw his lycan form of “Unleashing the Beast” from within at his breaking point. To me it was a rush of dominance and power which I wanted to portray with Goji from every angle. I had to do a lot of research about wolves and more on the fit human body. My creativity spurts were random at best and I was up at random hours of the night working. I am a night owl so sleeping is rare in my case. But I felt progress was being made and I was enjoying it. After I finished however my wrists were hurting a bit but that is a small price to pay for my character sheets I developed for him.

Positive: I have a feel good factor and a can do attitude. I am learning new ways to create characters. Knowledge of everything related to this is a plus for any field.

Negative: Want to visually revise my character constantly. Random spurts of energy at random hours. Physical pain and mental fatigue.

Now all this doesn’t mean I will stop because I am in pain. This is a passion I wish to follow. This is why I do what I do and enjoy doing it because I am doing it to make my clients happy and get myself into the world of art differently. Now look at your own list. Is this something you want to continue doing? If not repeat the former step and choose a different passion until you find the nitch. Next Segment we will discuss the Key and you will have the finale of the piece!