This category is reserved for artwork that is yet unfinished. Usually for artwork I expect to be working on again soon.
Toady I continue with my No Man’s Sky drawings. This one shows a first person view of an alien beach with another planet looming overhead. I’ll no doubt color this for tomorrow’s artwork. Which should prove to be quite fun. I love knowing what work is ahead because then I don’t have to wrack my brains trying to figure out what to do next. It’s already planned out. Good stuff.
Today, I decided to add some ink and color to my airship. It’s not finished yet, but I like the way it’s turning out so far. This airship is from the 6th Final Fantasy game in the long running video game series and is one of my personal favorite airships. It’s basically a mobile casino, which is pretty awesome. Does anyone else remember when Final Fantasy was great?
I originally didn’t have anything written to go along with this post, but I’m laying here in bed at 1:30 in the morning and it’s nagging at me. I think I’m feeling that if I don’t write anything for today’s artwork, it’s a bit of a mini failure. I still produced the art, but I didn’t stick with the routine. The habit. At least, I didn’t stick with it completely.
I guess this creative habit is working. I’ve already noticed a great many benefits already since starting this year long project, but apparently the actual “habit” portion has stuck with me.
I liked the stuff I drew yesterday so I decided to do some more. This is a small piece of a really huge drawing that I’m hoping I’ll be able to finish. I mean, I guess it’s up to me whether I finish it or not. Really though, I just hope I can stick with it and get it done. It’s going to take a long time, I think.
When you look at the full size image it’s a bit hard to tell what it is (and that’s on my 32″ HDTV) but when you zoom in there’s already a whole lot of little details. So far it’s just mostly trees and buildings. I’ve been seeing all these paintings lately with different kinds of art styles. It’s a bit hard to put into words, but I feel that I should change up my style a little bit and try emulating some of the artwork I’ve been seeing.
Honestly, I mainly want to stop the nitpicking. Detail is fine, it’s one of the things I feel I do best, however usually I go overboard, I guess. Again, it’s a little hard to explain. I’m not going to stop adding details, but I’m going to stop worrying that one tiny thing doesn’t look right. More importantly, I’m not going to have too much focus on trying to fix the little things.
I don’t want to lose the ability to spot those problems, but I don’t want to try and get away from focusing on them so much. Anyways, today’s picture is the start of that. I want the overall image to be very detailed, but only when you zoom out and see it in it’s full size are you going to get the full picture. Am I making any sense? Let me know in the comments!
Merry Christmas, everyone. This is my first, and last, Christmas during this year of creative habits project. I mean, I may do another year after I’m finished with this one, but this is my first. I noticed that I pretty much completely stayed away from Christmas/holiday themed artwork up until this point. I find that a little bit surprising. I guess when I went and drew all those Halloween inspired creations it was more up my alley. Creatures and all that makes more sense to me than Santa Claus, Christmas trees, and reindeer. I do love a snowy winter though, so maybe I’ll incorporate that at some point. I haven’t been in the winter spirit yet though. We haven’t really had much snow this winter.
Would anyone out there like to see more holiday themed artwork? Honestly, if there’s any actual demand for it I would gladly do it. I’ve had an image in my head for awhile now. An image related to wintertime. An old forgotten vehicle buried in the snow. Kinda of twilight time of day with a lot of pine trees around. I can’t remember where that image came from, but it was a month or two ago when I started thinking about it. I definitely should get that onto paper. Even if I don’t finish it, because I expect it would take a long time to complete. It would be nice to just get it on “paper”
Today I’ve uploaded the full sized version of this guy so you can see all the little details. Of course, I’m still not finished yet, so a lot of it is just blurry paint heh The eyes look really great though, I think. Overall, I’m not all that excited about this project actually. Despite being satisfied with how he looks so far. I’m not exactly sure what it is, perhaps I’m just tired, but it took an hour or so for me to get interested in continuing with this guy. I did put a good three hours into him tonight though! So I’m satisfied with that, at least.
Anyways, I’ll be right back at it again tomorrow. I’ll squeeze in a little time whenever I can, even though it’ll be Christmas day.
EDIT: I’m mostly adding this edit here as a reminder for myself!
Perhaps remove the “tail” and even the legs entirely. Or put the legs underneath. It’ll work, I promise! So listen to yourself.
I’m not sure exactly where I’m going to go next with this guy, but so far he’s looking really good. I had to try my hardest to ignore my impatience this time, as I just continuously wanted to move on to another part of the picture. It takes so long to do all the little details (details that oftentimes are hard to notice when you’re not looking at it up close) and so sometimes I’m spending upwards of 30 minutes on a tiny little spot. It can get pretty mentally exhausting. Hell! I’ll say physically too since it’s really tough to find a good spot where I can hold my tablet and my keyboard and reach everything fine. My setup kind of sucks since I don’t have a desk or a computer chair. Even when I did have those things they weren’t comfortable enough for drawing.
