07-11-2013, 08:02 AM
Dude, I could hug you right now.
Maybe I'm just not ready to wholeheartedly embrace a higher lesson at the moment, but fixing this petty image even a tiny bit, a tiny tiny patch, feels to me a lot more educative than ONLY replacing it altogether with one that's way better.
It may be that what I "need" is to accept/understand what an illustration is supposed to be (it's not that I'm against it; I just don't want that to be the only benefit I get from the crit). So right now, maybe only till I get it out of my system, what I'm trying to understand, is how to better an existing image.
I may be wrong, but I feel that building a little on the good of a bad image is more useful than just scraping it all because of the bad in it. It won't save the illustration, but the method used in the building can be used to better effect on the next image.
A sincere bunch of thanks dude! I know that bettering this image without major changes feels to you like beating on a dead horse but to me this is truly helpful.
Maybe I'm just not ready to wholeheartedly embrace a higher lesson at the moment, but fixing this petty image even a tiny bit, a tiny tiny patch, feels to me a lot more educative than ONLY replacing it altogether with one that's way better.
It may be that what I "need" is to accept/understand what an illustration is supposed to be (it's not that I'm against it; I just don't want that to be the only benefit I get from the crit). So right now, maybe only till I get it out of my system, what I'm trying to understand, is how to better an existing image.
I may be wrong, but I feel that building a little on the good of a bad image is more useful than just scraping it all because of the bad in it. It won't save the illustration, but the method used in the building can be used to better effect on the next image.
A sincere bunch of thanks dude! I know that bettering this image without major changes feels to you like beating on a dead horse but to me this is truly helpful.