Been a long time...
I haven't done art in so long, I'd forgotten how to do it. Having had surgery and being bed-ridden for 2 weeks (no alcohol for 2 whole weeks!!!), popping pain pills that didn't do the trick and being generally miserable, I turned to art (you can only watch so many wild police video shows before you get bored). Drew this in my ample spare time:
It's not finished yet--in fact, I might just can it and color it all over again from scratch--but it's not bad, considering that coloring is DEFINITELY my weak point. Any pointers for how to improve it? It's the first purely digital background I've ever done, so I'm sure it looks pathetic ('sides the fact it isn't done--I'm going to add highlights to the rocks and probably fade the water color more and add faint rays of light). Also, I think the watery sunlight on the mermaid's body is a little much (I was too lazy to sit and actually calculate the lines). (Mega thanks to NeonDragon for her fabulous tutorials. This looks so much better than it would have, had I not studied her explanations.)
Here's the original (which I'm MUCH happier with):
This is probably the prettiest ink job I've done (well, can't really call it an ink job because I "inked" it on my computer...) although I know as well as anybody that there isn't as much variation in line thickness as there should be.
Definitely nice to be doing art again...not that I have time now that I'm in an intensive Japanese teacher training summer course. Sigh. Oh, well, I get free food.
It's not finished yet--in fact, I might just can it and color it all over again from scratch--but it's not bad, considering that coloring is DEFINITELY my weak point. Any pointers for how to improve it? It's the first purely digital background I've ever done, so I'm sure it looks pathetic ('sides the fact it isn't done--I'm going to add highlights to the rocks and probably fade the water color more and add faint rays of light). Also, I think the watery sunlight on the mermaid's body is a little much (I was too lazy to sit and actually calculate the lines). (Mega thanks to NeonDragon for her fabulous tutorials. This looks so much better than it would have, had I not studied her explanations.)
Here's the original (which I'm MUCH happier with):
This is probably the prettiest ink job I've done (well, can't really call it an ink job because I "inked" it on my computer...) although I know as well as anybody that there isn't as much variation in line thickness as there should be.
Definitely nice to be doing art again...not that I have time now that I'm in an intensive Japanese teacher training summer course. Sigh. Oh, well, I get free food.