11-11-2019, 05:18 AM
Heya! I saw your latest post and I feel I connected a lot with it, also the previous one but it has been a few months since so maybe you have a different view on things now.
I think this is the feeling I find myself coming back over and over to, the wanting to do stuff just because it's fun, to try new things, to make something cool that maybe will make some kid stare in awe! ha. I honestly though, don't like nowadays social media aspect of likes. At all. I dunno if you have come across those "one in a thousand" comments from someone, where you can feel what they are experiencing, whey they tell you they remember, feel and how they connect to something you have done? They pour their soul on the feedback they write.
Now that! is why I keep putting up stuff, to hopefully receive one of those reactions. But with a likes system and the usual "cool", "nice", "good" or two-word responses you get almost constantly, I know I sound like an ungrateful ass-hat ha, but it seriously makes me feel like whatever I do doesn't really matter, I don't even know if there's an actual person leaving that comment or is some digital account just bumping stuff (hello paranoia! How long has it been? ha). So I'm glad for you, don't lose that spark ever! I sometimes have to remember myself about it, but I think that's been the most important aspect to what I do, reconnecting with it, as most as I can.
I also find myself with that feeling of dread about getting hurt when I go downhill some mountain track on my bike and thinking. "I shouldn't be doing this shit!" ha, although I take it quite mild nowadays, I really don't want to end up finding myself on one of those situations you mention, not able to draw anymore. To me that's a signal I have found something I love above all else, and that's why the stakes feel so real? Maybe that's what you mean too? Maybe I misunderstood. If not, then I relate!
From the last sketches you put I really like the girls, the one with the two-finger salute specially, the gesture is very nice overall and the proportions are spot on to me. The guys on the other hand feel like the heads are a tad small and the proportions a bit on the young side, children almost, on purpose? The hands seem to go along with the head effect. From the old post above I'm digging quite a bunch of them, mostly the girl portraits but the spiderverse one has a ton of energy and movement, the portraits some due to color choices (I like your avatar btw!) others for mood and lighting!
I hope we both find what we are looking for!
I think this is the feeling I find myself coming back over and over to, the wanting to do stuff just because it's fun, to try new things, to make something cool that maybe will make some kid stare in awe! ha. I honestly though, don't like nowadays social media aspect of likes. At all. I dunno if you have come across those "one in a thousand" comments from someone, where you can feel what they are experiencing, whey they tell you they remember, feel and how they connect to something you have done? They pour their soul on the feedback they write.
Now that! is why I keep putting up stuff, to hopefully receive one of those reactions. But with a likes system and the usual "cool", "nice", "good" or two-word responses you get almost constantly, I know I sound like an ungrateful ass-hat ha, but it seriously makes me feel like whatever I do doesn't really matter, I don't even know if there's an actual person leaving that comment or is some digital account just bumping stuff (hello paranoia! How long has it been? ha). So I'm glad for you, don't lose that spark ever! I sometimes have to remember myself about it, but I think that's been the most important aspect to what I do, reconnecting with it, as most as I can.
I also find myself with that feeling of dread about getting hurt when I go downhill some mountain track on my bike and thinking. "I shouldn't be doing this shit!" ha, although I take it quite mild nowadays, I really don't want to end up finding myself on one of those situations you mention, not able to draw anymore. To me that's a signal I have found something I love above all else, and that's why the stakes feel so real? Maybe that's what you mean too? Maybe I misunderstood. If not, then I relate!
From the last sketches you put I really like the girls, the one with the two-finger salute specially, the gesture is very nice overall and the proportions are spot on to me. The guys on the other hand feel like the heads are a tad small and the proportions a bit on the young side, children almost, on purpose? The hands seem to go along with the head effect. From the old post above I'm digging quite a bunch of them, mostly the girl portraits but the spiderverse one has a ton of energy and movement, the portraits some due to color choices (I like your avatar btw!) others for mood and lighting!
I hope we both find what we are looking for!