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You like how I spurn my design document to ramble here? I’m having trouble getting my prose-motor running this morning - I’m hoping if I babble a bit about insubstantial things it’ll get the words rolling.
So it’s pretty much unanimous, White Mage’s grass is going. Tonight I have to finish Sora’s second keyblade and clean up his detail work… if I pull that off in less than two hours I’ll have time to re-work White Mage’s grass into something pretty and not shitty-looking. Otherwise, she’ll just be floating in space.
In other news, I just discovered that the button down shirt I’m wearing is long and stretchy enough that I can pull it down my hands then slip my thumbs out behind the buttons. <3!!
While I was unwinding from art last night with a stroll through the misty evening, I compiled a list of goals for arting between now and Momo-con (which is in march, so about 6 months).
1) Work on Backgrounds
2) Work on Composition
The first one is a pretty big “duh.” I tried to do some backgroundly stuff when I got my first wind on AWA and I just failed miserably. Luckily, I used to fail miserably at bodies, too, and now I’m pretty damn good at them, so I just need some references and practice practice practice. Hand in hand with backgrounds is the concept of composition… which I entirely lack at this point. All my pictures are a person floating in space, or sometimes doing something… or a face with some suggestions of stuff going on around it. This is boring and unprofessional. I don’t need to show the entire body posed to get the point of the image across. Backgrounds will help out with this, but unless I start keeping it in mind when I’m drawing rather than tossing it behind the character when it’s done, I’ll keep having the problem of characters sitting in front of backgrounds, rather than being engaged in a full piece.
Oh, and number 3 would be not procrastinating (hah). I always manage to convince myself that I don’t enjoy painting… but I do. Then when I decide that I absolutely have to go to a con, I end up killing myself like this. My damnable hand has one from aching after I’ve been drawing for 3 hours to aching… constantly. Here’s to hoping that goes away after a few days tablet-free.
Oof, that got out of hand. I’ll be ruminating sometime in the near future on the relative benefits of hand drawn line art used as a line art layer when I paint digitally, versus re-drawing my line art in painter using the original as a guide.
Okay, I’m feeling more wordly-inclined now. Time to really get going on design doc number 2!
So it’s pretty much unanimous, White Mage’s grass is going. Tonight I have to finish Sora’s second keyblade and clean up his detail work… if I pull that off in less than two hours I’ll have time to re-work White Mage’s grass into something pretty and not shitty-looking. Otherwise, she’ll just be floating in space.
In other news, I just discovered that the button down shirt I’m wearing is long and stretchy enough that I can pull it down my hands then slip my thumbs out behind the buttons. <3!!
While I was unwinding from art last night with a stroll through the misty evening, I compiled a list of goals for arting between now and Momo-con (which is in march, so about 6 months).
1) Work on Backgrounds
2) Work on Composition
The first one is a pretty big “duh.” I tried to do some backgroundly stuff when I got my first wind on AWA and I just failed miserably. Luckily, I used to fail miserably at bodies, too, and now I’m pretty damn good at them, so I just need some references and practice practice practice. Hand in hand with backgrounds is the concept of composition… which I entirely lack at this point. All my pictures are a person floating in space, or sometimes doing something… or a face with some suggestions of stuff going on around it. This is boring and unprofessional. I don’t need to show the entire body posed to get the point of the image across. Backgrounds will help out with this, but unless I start keeping it in mind when I’m drawing rather than tossing it behind the character when it’s done, I’ll keep having the problem of characters sitting in front of backgrounds, rather than being engaged in a full piece.
Oh, and number 3 would be not procrastinating (hah). I always manage to convince myself that I don’t enjoy painting… but I do. Then when I decide that I absolutely have to go to a con, I end up killing myself like this. My damnable hand has one from aching after I’ve been drawing for 3 hours to aching… constantly. Here’s to hoping that goes away after a few days tablet-free.
Oof, that got out of hand. I’ll be ruminating sometime in the near future on the relative benefits of hand drawn line art used as a line art layer when I paint digitally, versus re-drawing my line art in painter using the original as a guide.
Okay, I’m feeling more wordly-inclined now. Time to really get going on design doc number 2!