I ranted about it to Jo and Debs today, so I'm pretty sure they're not gonna appreciate me *complaining* about it.
Late last year when I picked up art seriously again, my goal was to get my backgrounds and colouring really up to standard. I think I forgot and went a bit beyond. I getting more confident, and I developed a technique that allowed me to paint fast, jumping from rough sketch to colour...because I merged the two in the early stages...scribble and blobs indicated figure instead of lines.
Now that's cool if you're photo-referencing closely (where I picked it up from) or if you actually have any trace of a rough sketch/lineart beforehand...but for the sake of speed, accuracy was lost (I hate how maths gets into art, "don't skip steps" my maths teacher says)
Now that's cool if you're photo-referencing closely (where I picked it up from) or if you actually have any trace of a rough sketch/lineart beforehand...but for the sake of speed, accuracy was lost (I hate how maths gets into art, "don't skip steps" my maths teacher says)
Time to take a break from it all I guess. What annoys me the most is because I know what I'm doing wrong, and how to fix it. I'm half-expecting my old art teacher John to leap out of the closet to say "I told you!" I realised this formally when I got a kind nudge from another artist...hahaha. I was so pleased with the picture, I posted it straight away, only to return half an hour later ready to tear my hair out...in such a short time, I could already point out the mistakes clearly. The (editted) picture is at the bottom.
More studies for me.Even back to drawing fruit if I have to. And actually doing lineart, which I haven't done properly in almost two years. It's the last picture of this phase (hopefully). hehe
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