01-02-2022, 07:14 AM
Heyo, Belated Merry Christmas and Happy new year for everyone.
I have been busy. Usually that's nothing new but this time I did catch a bad cough and although it wasn't Covid it was brutal and knocked me out for a week of my Holidays, right before starting at my new job. After the Christmas breakup though, I still have another week to finish a few things.
I got most of the Harp commission done, and getting going on the next pieces. I experimented with Vector layers for the linework, thinking it's an awesome idea to use and scale work up indefinitely. But, I was working on sections in layers, and when I merged them I didn't realise erasing would also register as a vector path, and it would erase sections that I was merging. Converting raster to vector isn't great for my very non-clean, very non-anime amount of detail. I will have to either do a detailed sketch then go over using a vector, or see if I can cut instead of erase, or just stick to raster.
I definitely painted a lot more directly onto one layer this time around - usually I do washes upon washes. I still did a bit of that here, but with a lot of elements there were a lot of subfolders anyway so I reached 86 layers :| For the next piece I'm aiming to work on even less.
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I participated in another Art secret santa. I was given a username and we had to repaint their work in our style. I was given the artist Leo Val: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/RYRAAX
![[Image: NightmareFairy_for_Leo_Val.jpg]](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/854132422164873236/923164211088080936/NightmareFairy_for_Leo_Val.jpg)
The Secret Santa turned into a secret art exchange because we were paired up and he did one of my paintings in return.
My illness hit right when I was meant to paint this so I had to crop it and rush it at the finish. Definitely could have done more, but he's happy I'm ecstatic because he painted this:
![[Image: Rotten_v003.jpg]](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/475289248422166538/926585585206956072/Rotten_v003.jpg)
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I haven't done as much as others, but I think I've accomplished a lot this year.
![[Image: CollageMaker_20211231_035143093.jpg]](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/910293035324153916/926178923740561478/CollageMaker_20211231_035143093.jpg)
![[Image: CollageMaker_20211231_035407166.jpg]](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/910293035324153916/926178924751355934/CollageMaker_20211231_035407166.jpg)
There's definitely improvement in gesture, form, value and colour saturation. Also, variety, process and speed, and bringing things to the final stages. I've posted my long 2021 recap elsewhere and I won't copy and paste, but I did stop drawing for a long time last dry-spell and I think this was a good year to re-adjust and get back into some semblance of flow.
I have been busy. Usually that's nothing new but this time I did catch a bad cough and although it wasn't Covid it was brutal and knocked me out for a week of my Holidays, right before starting at my new job. After the Christmas breakup though, I still have another week to finish a few things.
I got most of the Harp commission done, and getting going on the next pieces. I experimented with Vector layers for the linework, thinking it's an awesome idea to use and scale work up indefinitely. But, I was working on sections in layers, and when I merged them I didn't realise erasing would also register as a vector path, and it would erase sections that I was merging. Converting raster to vector isn't great for my very non-clean, very non-anime amount of detail. I will have to either do a detailed sketch then go over using a vector, or see if I can cut instead of erase, or just stick to raster.
I definitely painted a lot more directly onto one layer this time around - usually I do washes upon washes. I still did a bit of that here, but with a lot of elements there were a lot of subfolders anyway so I reached 86 layers :| For the next piece I'm aiming to work on even less.
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I participated in another Art secret santa. I was given a username and we had to repaint their work in our style. I was given the artist Leo Val: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/RYRAAX
The Secret Santa turned into a secret art exchange because we were paired up and he did one of my paintings in return.
My illness hit right when I was meant to paint this so I had to crop it and rush it at the finish. Definitely could have done more, but he's happy I'm ecstatic because he painted this:
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I haven't done as much as others, but I think I've accomplished a lot this year.
There's definitely improvement in gesture, form, value and colour saturation. Also, variety, process and speed, and bringing things to the final stages. I've posted my long 2021 recap elsewhere and I won't copy and paste, but I did stop drawing for a long time last dry-spell and I think this was a good year to re-adjust and get back into some semblance of flow.