whining
When I read the epilogue of bethbethbeth's story In From the Cold, I really liked that image of Snape. So I wanted to draw that, and it was supposed to be this quick funny thing, you know, Snape in shorts and a parrot shirt?
Only once I had my preliminary rough sketch of Snape I decided that it would be cooler if you'd see a bit of the porch he's sitting on, and I forgot to consider that I suck at backgrounds. I mean, there's a reason I often avoid them altogether and just draw the characters. Anyway, I didn't bother with a proper two point perspective construction, seeing how I just wanted to show this little bit of porch, and really perspective construction is a pain anyway, especially if the vanishing points are well outside your paper (and you have to do a smaller sketch just for perspective construction and enlarge the relevant part or other bothersome stuff). So I tried to fudge the perspective. And of course now it looks all wonky, because I am crap at fudging perspective.
The proper thing would be to just start over and do it right, construct the background properly, then redraw Snape into it, but I'm not feeling really motivated to do that, because I'm lazy, and not all that interested in the felling porch. I just wanted Snape in a parrot shirt, you know? Of course I could ignore that it looks all wrong and just finish with the details, which would be more fun, but not bothering to fix stuff when you know it's wrong feels kind of like posting without spellcheck because fixing typos is tedious or something like that. *headdesk*
Maybe I'll just read some fanfic instead...
Only once I had my preliminary rough sketch of Snape I decided that it would be cooler if you'd see a bit of the porch he's sitting on, and I forgot to consider that I suck at backgrounds. I mean, there's a reason I often avoid them altogether and just draw the characters. Anyway, I didn't bother with a proper two point perspective construction, seeing how I just wanted to show this little bit of porch, and really perspective construction is a pain anyway, especially if the vanishing points are well outside your paper (and you have to do a smaller sketch just for perspective construction and enlarge the relevant part or other bothersome stuff). So I tried to fudge the perspective. And of course now it looks all wonky, because I am crap at fudging perspective.
The proper thing would be to just start over and do it right, construct the background properly, then redraw Snape into it, but I'm not feeling really motivated to do that, because I'm lazy, and not all that interested in the felling porch. I just wanted Snape in a parrot shirt, you know? Of course I could ignore that it looks all wrong and just finish with the details, which would be more fun, but not bothering to fix stuff when you know it's wrong feels kind of like posting without spellcheck because fixing typos is tedious or something like that. *headdesk*
Maybe I'll just read some fanfic instead...