11-28-2016, 01:48 PM
@Cracked He Lives! Good to hear from you man. Thanks a bunch. I'm more focused lately so even if there isn't much new stuff I'm definitely planning stuff.
Hokay, so I went and splurged this past week. Bought a lightbox, seeing as it used to be something I'd do to have a more polished result but since my mock-up one made for me had broken, everything I've drawn has just been random, scrawling about the page trying to figure out what to make of it. I'm shit at thumbnails, see, probably because I can't see everything and it's not always clear to me when all I see are shapes. I'm also terrible with references, mainly because I'm picky. Everything available is so dramatic or overemphasized. People have made comments on my odd poses but those are normally conscious decisions. I wouldn't do the stereotypical hand-on-hip gesture, but I would curl or tense fingers like I do when in motion. Digital art I've come to accept is disposable, and that's not a bad thing. It lets me do things to it that I'm too precious about in traditional medium.
And so, the plan is to start more planned pieces, actively using references as an indirect resource to make mock-up pieces I can then use as a base to trace from, keeping artwork well constructed, clean, and best of all faster without compromising my artwork's integrity.
Base of an idea that would have been my Tale Of Two Contrasts Entry, were I to have actually done it in time.
Hokay, so I went and splurged this past week. Bought a lightbox, seeing as it used to be something I'd do to have a more polished result but since my mock-up one made for me had broken, everything I've drawn has just been random, scrawling about the page trying to figure out what to make of it. I'm shit at thumbnails, see, probably because I can't see everything and it's not always clear to me when all I see are shapes. I'm also terrible with references, mainly because I'm picky. Everything available is so dramatic or overemphasized. People have made comments on my odd poses but those are normally conscious decisions. I wouldn't do the stereotypical hand-on-hip gesture, but I would curl or tense fingers like I do when in motion. Digital art I've come to accept is disposable, and that's not a bad thing. It lets me do things to it that I'm too precious about in traditional medium.
And so, the plan is to start more planned pieces, actively using references as an indirect resource to make mock-up pieces I can then use as a base to trace from, keeping artwork well constructed, clean, and best of all faster without compromising my artwork's integrity.
Base of an idea that would have been my Tale Of Two Contrasts Entry, were I to have actually done it in time.
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