02-19-2023, 04:57 AM
Jephyr: Thanks so much for all your comments. I haven't painted over any of my pencil sketches so far; I just don't feel like I have the digital painting chops to actually improve them.
Artloader: Thank you, and I hope you're keeping well too. Sometimes I wonder what you're up to.
RottenPocket: Thanks. Yeah, I was always trying to avoid having any obvious digital brush-strokes visible, but that mostly resulted in everything looking more plasticky and blurry than it needed to. If I feel like doing digital painting again at some point, I'll definitely have a different approach. But I'll always side with traditional too.
Leo Ki: Hey, thread necromancy is the highest form of flattery, so thank you very much. In fact, I was so touched by your thread necro that I took 6 new pictures for you (the first drawing is the last one that I bothered photographing and posting anywhere).
After doing an entire 3 commissions I lost all desire to become a professional artist. My clients were perfectly nice people, I just don't seem to like drawing very much unless I'm just doodling aimlessly whenever I happen to feel like it. It seemed inevitable that trying to become a full-time professional artist would quickly drain all of my enjoyment of the activity.
So I got my first job out in meatspace, and I'm generally feeling happier and enjoying drawing more than I used to. I'm an almost completely unambitious person, so I'm probably gonna live and die without venturing outside of about a 50 mile radius.
I also care even less about making things look correct than I used to, so these might hurt your eyeballs a little bit.
Artloader: Thank you, and I hope you're keeping well too. Sometimes I wonder what you're up to.
RottenPocket: Thanks. Yeah, I was always trying to avoid having any obvious digital brush-strokes visible, but that mostly resulted in everything looking more plasticky and blurry than it needed to. If I feel like doing digital painting again at some point, I'll definitely have a different approach. But I'll always side with traditional too.
Leo Ki: Hey, thread necromancy is the highest form of flattery, so thank you very much. In fact, I was so touched by your thread necro that I took 6 new pictures for you (the first drawing is the last one that I bothered photographing and posting anywhere).
After doing an entire 3 commissions I lost all desire to become a professional artist. My clients were perfectly nice people, I just don't seem to like drawing very much unless I'm just doodling aimlessly whenever I happen to feel like it. It seemed inevitable that trying to become a full-time professional artist would quickly drain all of my enjoyment of the activity.
So I got my first job out in meatspace, and I'm generally feeling happier and enjoying drawing more than I used to. I'm an almost completely unambitious person, so I'm probably gonna live and die without venturing outside of about a 50 mile radius.
I also care even less about making things look correct than I used to, so these might hurt your eyeballs a little bit.