Fedodika the Koala

[Fedodika]

Jaktraytr: hey thanks for the critique man;

Since my last post i decided to ditch a lot of my old habits and well, i'll try to explain why without a novel, but the short end of it is.

I hate drawing fantasy commercial art. 

All my favorite artists are pinup artists; bouguereau, malcolm liepke, serge birault, paul richards, you know you know.. So i decided recently to just focus on that; none of my favoriteartists are fantasy illustrators, or even caricature artists. Though, there is an element of caricature in their work, its 90% pinup.

yea man, it's been quite freeing, like going to bed each night and saying, "hey that was fun today"
drawing hotties... And i feel like its the easy way out but it really isn't.

I didn't do fantasy because i initially wanted to, i did it because it was the only thing i knew. We are on a site founded by a fantasy artist, who, apparently doesn't even want to be a fantasy artist anymore. So i thought you know if he hates doing it less than a decade later, and i don't even like doing it now, why not just do what i want to do? 

All my favorite pictures are of beautiful women, mostly photos; i have a folder filled with my favorite pictures, and only about 4 of the 200 of them are paintings. And instead of ignoring that i'm just going to embrace it and do that. It's gotten to where i roll my eyes when i see a lot of fantasy work on FB especially stuff that's geared to a certain company. The pieces i did that were pinup on my DA i felt much more satisfied with people's reactions to, because i know it was a lot more genuine on my part. hell every platform i put those pieces on got a great reaction,
as opposed to my more recent stuff.

I feel like a very sophisticated pervert, as in i have a way to see the fantasy in my head on paper now. 

And i appreciate your critic jakt, it will take a matter of time for me to patch the remaining holes up in anatomy, and all that stuff i find a hard time caring about tbh, but i suppose i should. Only thing i recommend to the new artist is to not be afraid of what you truly want to do. Even if it is kind of naughty, do what makes you happy the most, and hey good for you if it's rpg stuff cuz as we can see from pnate and rafa z, there's definitely still places to
break in in that market.