Illustration #133 and #134 + rewards!

Hey! I've got two paintings for you this time. :) Like you may have noticed, I usually finish one illustration at a time before doing the next. But I can often feel some fatigue towards the end of the process of a painting, so this past month I wanted to work on two illustrations in parallel. I want to reacquaint myself with how that feels and what effect that has, and see if it impacts the fatigue one way or another. It's probably too early to have a concrete opinion on it, but it felt pretty good. I enjoyed the process from start to finish on both of these paintings.

Check out the rewards for both paintings in the attachments! You can also always find them in the rewards collection post, alongside all other past rewards you might have missed!

I didn't want to spend too long getting these posted, so I did keep the complexity of these painting down a little bit for the purpose of this experiment. I often feel like I spend way too much time polishing environments that aren't really the focus of my paintings, so keeping the environments a bit painterly and less complex is probably a good thing. Doing cool environments is fun too obviously and I don't intend to avoid them entirely, but I gotta learn to restrain myself more in the instances where they aren't as important to the composition or where my time is better spent painting more paintings instead of a more detailed painting. This probably also had an impact on avoiding fatigue with these two paintings, so I'll have to do some more paintings to get a sense of what has what effect.

Something I really enjoyed in the process of these two paintings is the part just after I finished the sketches and moved on to do the full painting. For that step of the process, as you can see in the videos, I kind of roughed up the whole sketch, making it look almost blurry with painterly strokes. It created a foundation that felt really good to add details onto. The idea there is to sort of go from blurry and then gradually sharpen things and add details where it matters. I did it a bit more deliberately than I usually do, and I think it was pretty successful!

That's all for now! No doodles this time around, but I hope the two paintings and their rewards make up for it. :) Thanks a bunch for your support!