You know, if I planned today’s image from the start and spent a lot of time researching shadows, ship design, and maybe looked over the actual Death Star from Star Wars, then maybe I could actually paint a really high quality picture. That all being said, I’m quite happy with how this is turning out, when you consider the fact that I kind of just jumped into it with zero planning.
Just like the majority of my drawings, the vision for what this was going to become changed dramatically a couple times. Usually I start out with a vague idea of what I want to draw, then it kind of shifts into something else entirely as I go along. This was literally supposed to be a moon…
Hello! I’ve been having a lot of fun doing these daily scenery drawings, and there are a few things I really like about what I drew today; such as the sky and those ship silhouettes. That snowy fog-like mist looks pretty awesome as well. However, I’m not a huge fan of those funny looking alien trees, or those mountains. And I think I probably should of left out that black outline.
For the most part, I enjoy putting these simple scenes together. Although, it can get a little frustrating when I need to hold myself back from adding too much detail. I had to stop myself – on more than one occasion – from spending way too much time on one single part of this picture. The purpose of these types of pictures is to familiarize myself with themes. I’m really trying not to overdue it when it comes to minor details and over-complicated drawings.
I left myself a note about a week ago, and I kind of forgot about it. (See, I tend to remind myself to do things by writing myself emails occasionally. Usually late at night before I sleep) It’s been sitting in my inbox and I’ve just ignored it. I thought I had already did everything I needed to do, or in this case, write everything I needed to write about. However, I went to delete the message today and I noticed there actually was something I hadn’t talked about yet.
When I started this picture, I thought it was going to end up pretty dark and maybe a little deranged. But now it seems I went fully dark and deranged. This sort of reminds me of when I would visit my local movie rental place when I was a kid, and a good portion of the scary movies had really messed up artwork on the cover of the VHS tapes.
So far today I’ve spent about an hour working on the picture I started yesterday. I feel that it might not look a whole lot different from what I posted yesterday, as I was mostly just adding some yellow (as you can see clearly in the top left portion of the image) to highlight some areas. I also added some (and much better defined) faces!
