Instead, let me know what you want to see me draw more of, and/or what you like best in my art. (whoops did I say I was ‘going to’ post a self-indulgent meme?)
The odds of the suggestions I get ending up in my drawing-a-day are pretty high :D
Just to keep my rampant ego (ahaha) in check, and to give everyone a look at a bit of the sausage-making process, here’s the progress of my second version of the female barbarian from my Holding the Pass drawing.
(Why yes, this mess is how I tend to sketch. I also didn’t use good enough reference: it’s really difficult to take self-ref with Photo Booth, and I wound up with chopped off legs in the one photo that had a pose I liked - which is why it’s completely unsurprising that everything below the arms is terrible. Sigh.)
I got to this point, stepped back, and after bouncing it off of Steen and Carissa realized that it was a completely static and uninteresting pose. So I’m starting the figure a third time, from scratch, and I can’t even be too upset about it because it’ll make for a better drawing.
I can, however, sigh in frustration.
I got asked a few times via askbox and once through reblog why I don’t like that picture with the dead guy and all the flowers, and I’m lazy enough that I only want to reply once, ha ha. (an aside: I don’t know why it is that it’s always the work we don’t care for that gets popular, but it’s a recurring thing with pretty much every artist I know and I hope someone smarter than me comes up with a theory for why that happens.) Also while writing this - which was very short at first - it turned a little bit into thoughts on art in general? IDK. So I put it under a cut.
My good friend Gillian has some excellent thinky thoughts about artmaking.
What she says about attitude is 100% true, by the way: I’ve seen it in my own art too many times to discount it. Going into a piece with joy and excitement and determination has a really good chance of resulting in a product that’s satisfying on some level, even if it’s not quite all there. Going into a piece with gritted teeth or despair or anger or apathy will likely result in bad work, no matter how much polish you try and put on it.
The best example I can dig up on no notice is from my junior year at SVA, which is emerging as having been a true crucible for me in a lot of different ways.
Here’s a painting I did with a good attitude:
And here’s a painting I did at around the same time, from one of the worst mental/emotional places I’ve been in to date:
On the surface, the technical level of painting is around the same; but the latter piece is so tortured, so overwrought and false and hollow, whereas the former painting is something I still love so much that I intend to redo it, now that I have two more years of learning under my belt.
Attitude, man.
"There's more honor in over-reaching and failing with ambition, than in limited success. And if we measure our goals by the best of the best, at least we're unlikely to run out of challenges."
-Elizabeth Bear
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