Hello! I am Kavel, or Kav, and I draw from time to time.
Why Kavel Babble?
I created this website to be a little cove to post my art and salient thoughts about art and art philosophy, and maybe life stuff from time to time. I chose to create a website instead of using conventional platforms (Twitter, Instagram, Artstation) because I am not looking for discoverability or engagement. It’s not that these things are bad; they can just be a burden when my sole focus is to draw.
In her YouTube short about how much she makes as an artist, Pikat comments on how YouTube is a full-time job, which leaves you with very little extra time to actually be a freelance artist. I don’t want to spend my time being a social media manager; I want to spend my time drawing.
Why Drawing?
I originally wanted to pick up drawing because I wanted a hobby that I sucked at. This sounds weird and kind of egotistical, but it’s true. I decided I had grown too comfortable in my existing hobbies (gaming, calisthenics, and video making) at the end of Freshman year of college, so I started looking for another hobby. While on the toilet for an inordinate amount of time scrolling through Instagram reels, I saw a video about Drawabox. Later that summer, I picked up Drawabox, and the rest is history.
As I began to draw more and more (warming up to the 50% rule), I started to realize how easily I could express myself. Each line was dictated by my intent (and a healthy amount of human error), which completely changed the substance of a piece. Rather quickly, my pursuit of a difficult hobby turned into a love of expression.
This is generally where I am at now- I draw because it helps me express myself. The act of drawing is meditative and provides me with a break from the world. The things I create, whether “ugly” or “nice”, are pieces of me at a time.
Drawing has introduced me to some amazing communities, people, philosophies, and whatever other plural noun I can stuff here. It undeniably improved my life, and I am excited to see what is to come.
What Drawing?
My favorite areas of drawing are Character Design, Creature Design, Comics, and Animation. I don’t really have any big aspirational goals for any of these categories- I just hope to make some cool stuff for each of these someday.
How Drawing?
I originally attempted to learn to draw when I was about 12-ish years old. This “attempt” composed following character drawing tutorials, drawing the same furry head repeatedly until I got too frustrated to continue, and copying a Udemy “eye drawing” art tutorial. I would not consider this a legitimate attempt.
Throughout the rest of middle and high school, most of my drawing experience would be relocated to engineering drawing and sketches.
I would consider my “true” start to drawing mid June of 2023 when I first started Drawabox. Ideally, I’ll complete Drawabox Lessons 1-7 (including the challenges) and continue to NMA or Proko.
Who Drawing?
I’ll make a blog post about art parents some time, but here are some of my favorite artists that I draw inspiration from (shortened):
Conclusion
Thanks for reading this all, I’m not the most concise person. I hope to be good about posting and updating here, but we’ll see. At least I set the domain to auto-renew, so you can stare at this page until something else happens. Bye for now!