Tada! I drew this picture some time last week, and I finally got a chance to colour it this weekend.I started work a couple of weeks ago, and I was so excited to be working at Trafalgar, being my own campus and with my own kind of people. You know, fellow artists?
Turns out it was probably the most depressing thing to happen to me all summer (Yeah, that whole two weeks of it). I'm having a lot of problems lately just feeling generally confident in my art.
I'm confused, because I like what I draw, I like how it looks, and I'm not being a cocky brat in saying it looks nice and interesting and generally on the whole, it looks accurate. So why, can't anybody ever say anything about it?
I feel like when people ask to see my sketch book, and they look, they're like.. disappointed or something, and I get the courtesy, "Oh, oh yeah, nice," and I feel like I'm being regarded as a child who's proudly trying to show off scribbles.
I mean, when people look at my friends art, All they can do is go on and on about how amazing their particular style is, or how cute their particular style is, or how well they draw this, or how well they draw that, and then they look at mine.. and what's the best comment I can get...? "You got to be careful with anime."
Talk about a kick to the face.
Well anyways, for feeling literally ashamed when I draw pictures now, I did my best to ignore all of that and really work on painting for this one.
After seven hours and up of just painting curtains, I've gotten really tired of curtains.
I took a lot of screen shots while I was working on this one, so you can take a look at the screen shot reel here; it's pretty small, but you get the idea. I finally got up the courage to ask one of my art idols on DA what his process was, and even though I didn't really get the look I was going to try for, I had a lot of fun painting it and from his brief run down of his working process, this is what I wound up with. I thought it looked pretty spiffy.
I used about three layers, the background was all on one, and the character colours were all on one, and the lines were on their own.
I cheated a couple of times, used Photoshops brightness/contrast option to help me get a bit of an edge on things; but hey, that's what it's there for. I have one other picture I'd like to paint, possibly tomorrow, but past that, I'm all idea'd out, and the way things are going, I don't know when I'll get any more creative urges.
Annie
11:40
I love the work you did on this one, checked it out the second I got home. My favorite part are the drapes and the legs.. You did really well with the shades and tones.
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ReplyDeleteI love you, really, but I'm going to be honest with you.
Just because one person says that you 'gotta be careful with anime' doesn't mean everyone else thinks that way. Ever since I've met you I've always loved how you've drawn people, I love your characters and that Alan and Suka tree piece that you did always inspires me. I've told you this over and over again but it doesn't seem like it's getting through to you. Is it because I'm just one person? Does a group of people have to tell you that your art is amazing before you understand?
Your art is amazing.
Your art is amazing
Your art is amazing!
I'll continue telling you this until you get it. True, I understand artists have their ups and downs (believe me I know) but don't let this ruin what you think of yourself as an artist. You haven't been in animation class to understand how much it'll improve you. You're only 20, and look at that Tina picture. There's an atmosphere to it that I only wish I could have in my drawings. Curtains? The detail is superb! I'm hoping you feel better with this picture by now, cause being upset with it is stupid, I'm sorry. What's there to not like?
With art you get critiques. Some harsher then others but you get them. It's all about how you deal with it. Wrong way, is to compare yourself to others like the way you wrote here. There's always going to be someone better then you, always. What you should do is look at the persons art and learn from it. What are they doing to make their art work? How can you do the same with your stuff? It's like you teaching me about line art! I learned from you on how to line art better traditionally and I'm so grateful. I've improved because of you. Don't get depressed thinking that you'll never be able to do that, when you can! It just takes practice. Artists can't control the comments they get on their art, so there's no point at being mad at them for it. Do you expect them to be unhappy that they're getting praised for something they drew? Sometimes when you get into moods like this it's hard to talk to you..cause I kinda feel like shit when I talk about something good that's happened to me art wise and it's like I'm getting kicked in the face for it. It's made me not want to talk to you about anything, art wise, because you kinda go into this lock down mode...
I'm only saying this because I care about you..and I don't like seeing you unhappy with something I think you should be proud of. So please don't think I'm attacking you in anyway because I'm not. I'm only trying to help
Revisit.. I fucking love this picture. It actually kinda reminded me of the "death" card you drew me a loooong time ago. I miss that one.
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