I’m working on a big drawing showing the whole Frozen North crew in the final battle vs the Demi-lich Iriolarthus and a bunch of Nothic minions. I want this drawing to be epic and amazing but I got stuck. In laying out that drawing I wanted to draw Mars doing casting Steel Wind Strike and hit a wall. So it was off the the sketch book! From there I got geeked and decided to do a more detailed sketch of just Mars. (The little pencil thumbnail in the top left corner is where I started laying out the idea for the final drawing below). This whole thing highlights the value of a sketchbook but also something cool about creativity – that the work itself is sometimes the thing that generates ideas.
Yes, yes, and yes!