I keep finishing things
Added 2019-01-21 06:51:00 +0000 UTCWhich is a problem in the sense of both not having a lot of stuff to show for WIP and also because there are some projects outside of commissions I feel like I should spend as much time on as I do those.
There is a lot of stuff I would change if I took another swing at the commission sheet. Or WILL change the next time I make one. Ultimately this was a first attempt at using my approach to comic pages to organize a commission sheet and I got a lot of stuff wrong, omitted a lot of information that people would have preferred I had included and so on. Learning experience.
Also I got dinged about boob shapes on the final version which is a thing I get upset at myself over (lines, shapes, anatomy, faces - these are things I get really irritated about in my own work and attributes a lot of my discontent with my style). Ultimately this is also why I have been trying to get back into doing more art studies. While most of them are in my sketchbooks for now, I need to use them to build up some skill on the tablet also (at which point I will be able to share them more).
This picture is tormenting me: see above whining about anatomy and shapes. I keep making small adjustments because I like the pose and framing a lot but I feel like I am not drawing the figures well. The hair, in particular, doesn't work well for me and I will probably be giving it another pass.
I start in on the commissions tomorrow. This weekend was supposed to be for art study - and I used a chunk of it for other things.
Comments
"Perfect" is the enemy of "finished", as they say. I wouldn't get hung up on small adjustments because there will *always* be mistakes. Get them down to a tolerable level and move on. When I was at university, I took a compulsory module that could be summed up as "Nothing you do will ever be completely finished and will always suck in some way so you might as well get used to knowing when to stop." Learning to do that was considered important enough to be taught as part of our professional qualification, so that should put its importance into perspective.
aabsurdity
2019-01-21 07:23:33 +0000 UTC
