04-22-2021, 01:27 PM
I made it back. I have two actual pictures and a two page essay. Verbosity is my talent.
I pulled out a few old pieces to take in for the next intake at the art gallery. (I pay a membership to basically be in an artist's guild. So not a fancy gallery. They're actually located at the mall. But I prefer that over the gentrifying bullshit the actual art center of my town has become).
So with this in mind I decided to tackle a few pet portraits as they're pretty marketable in gallery and whoring for commissions setting.
But of COURSE I asked my work wife for a photo of her beloved shih tzu. I swear they naturally have this odd, slanted look. And so much hair. Hair obscuring EVERYTHING. And I realized that I should have planned more. I should have known the gravitational force on the hair needed deliberate planning to emphasize that the head was tilted and this wasn't a cross-eyed Cousin It.
And so the struggle continues.
The other thing I've struggled with is this pixel barf.
I was enthusiastic about this because it was the first real *artsy* thing I'd managed to make on a computer. For some reason, I decided to try a digital grisaille. There are also a million layers and I only know what five do. And I didn't exactly plan for a background, so I tried to force one in. The edge is too close to the top of the frame, but at some point I made a layer mask with no actual idea how masks work and I can't fix it. And I think the proportions are off.
I might leave this one behind and move out of town.
(personal note in case my computer dies and I forget what I'm using, the brushes are CH Gouache and Noa's PS Chalk Brushes).
I pulled out a few old pieces to take in for the next intake at the art gallery. (I pay a membership to basically be in an artist's guild. So not a fancy gallery. They're actually located at the mall. But I prefer that over the gentrifying bullshit the actual art center of my town has become).
So with this in mind I decided to tackle a few pet portraits as they're pretty marketable in gallery and whoring for commissions setting.
But of COURSE I asked my work wife for a photo of her beloved shih tzu. I swear they naturally have this odd, slanted look. And so much hair. Hair obscuring EVERYTHING. And I realized that I should have planned more. I should have known the gravitational force on the hair needed deliberate planning to emphasize that the head was tilted and this wasn't a cross-eyed Cousin It.
And so the struggle continues.
The other thing I've struggled with is this pixel barf.
I was enthusiastic about this because it was the first real *artsy* thing I'd managed to make on a computer. For some reason, I decided to try a digital grisaille. There are also a million layers and I only know what five do. And I didn't exactly plan for a background, so I tried to force one in. The edge is too close to the top of the frame, but at some point I made a layer mask with no actual idea how masks work and I can't fix it. And I think the proportions are off.
I might leave this one behind and move out of town.
(personal note in case my computer dies and I forget what I'm using, the brushes are CH Gouache and Noa's PS Chalk Brushes).