05-22-2016, 11:02 AM
D1:3H
5h behind
I feel like I have fallen out of the habit of working, today it seems I was in my lowest point in weeks. Its not that the work I did felt particularly hard or frustrating, it was just lazyness. Im not sure what the main cause was, perhaps my different sleep schedule, perhaps taking 2 days off instead of 1. Maybe even the fact that the end of may is nearing and I always seem to take a long break during this time. I suppose its brought on by the summer vacation from school being ingrained in my mind.
If it wasnt for past experiences I would have lied that I was sick.
I have felt regret over my actions many times, even today I regretted taking additional day off and breaking a few rules I set myself. But I know that If I were to lie and go to a longer vacation I would lose the remainder of my discipline and a lot of faith in myself. Another thing I would lose is time, a week of it at, maybe even a month(by this I mean I would still do art, but only 1-2hrs a day), before I grew frustrated at myself and got back to a serious amount of work.
I wont work on this version of the crucible, since it looks really bad, the colorwork and the way its composed and balanced is atrocious.
When adding colours and values and intensity to hues in a painting, you have to achieve a harmony. Too much of one and it is ruined. It is not just making the colors look realistic, but making every color/shape/value etc work with eachother. When I looked for this harmony I saw that some digital works by proffessionals, albeit well done are lacking this harmony.
I gained a lot more appreciation for some artworks of masters today, that seemed to strike a good balance, I even tried to use them as a base, for at first I saw a nice color scheme, but quickly messed up the balance and by extension the composition.
I started another sketch after another and came to a method where I glaze the colors in carefully, starting out from tinted grays. Though it is easier to control, I feel like this method hides the mistakes in sublety.
5h behind
I feel like I have fallen out of the habit of working, today it seems I was in my lowest point in weeks. Its not that the work I did felt particularly hard or frustrating, it was just lazyness. Im not sure what the main cause was, perhaps my different sleep schedule, perhaps taking 2 days off instead of 1. Maybe even the fact that the end of may is nearing and I always seem to take a long break during this time. I suppose its brought on by the summer vacation from school being ingrained in my mind.
If it wasnt for past experiences I would have lied that I was sick.
I have felt regret over my actions many times, even today I regretted taking additional day off and breaking a few rules I set myself. But I know that If I were to lie and go to a longer vacation I would lose the remainder of my discipline and a lot of faith in myself. Another thing I would lose is time, a week of it at, maybe even a month(by this I mean I would still do art, but only 1-2hrs a day), before I grew frustrated at myself and got back to a serious amount of work.
I wont work on this version of the crucible, since it looks really bad, the colorwork and the way its composed and balanced is atrocious.
When adding colours and values and intensity to hues in a painting, you have to achieve a harmony. Too much of one and it is ruined. It is not just making the colors look realistic, but making every color/shape/value etc work with eachother. When I looked for this harmony I saw that some digital works by proffessionals, albeit well done are lacking this harmony.
I gained a lot more appreciation for some artworks of masters today, that seemed to strike a good balance, I even tried to use them as a base, for at first I saw a nice color scheme, but quickly messed up the balance and by extension the composition.
I started another sketch after another and came to a method where I glaze the colors in carefully, starting out from tinted grays. Though it is easier to control, I feel like this method hides the mistakes in sublety.