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I think I have it figured out
4 years ago
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So I was in kind of a slump the past few days, as some of you might figure from the last journal. Taking a break the last few days to experiment around, I finally understand why.
You know how they say, you can't really spot the cellphone tower hidden among the trees until it is pointed to you. When you do see it, you can no longer unsee it will start to spot it in plain sight. The same can be say about art. The more I learn, the more I pay attention to the tiny details and I always tackle them when I draw a new piece.
Recently though, I have been working on pieces I have left hanging around for weeks or even months. While I may not notice them right away, the actual sketch and the foundation of the piece is no longer as strong anymore. When I start refining the piece and clearing up the stuff, the blatant mistake start to stand out and the whole thing is like a spaghetti coding where I try to fix one obvious bugs and suddenly the next 10 appear out of nowhere. In the end, the piece comes out feeling like it takes way more effort than it should for less than stellar quality.
Working on stuff recently though, I try to redraw pieces from zero again instead and it helps me realize where I have been going wrong especially with how I have been working on commission where I sometime work on too many pieces at once in a set with a bunch of sketches handed out. I work best when I actually try to finish stuff right away instead of leaving them hanging around and that's how I should go back to approaching my art.
And that's how I will work now. I won't just send updates to 5-6 people at once anymore and instead try to finish people piece as they come and go like a more active artist I should have been and if it's clear than redrawing the whole thing from scratch is going to be the better for the piece, then I should do it.
I will have the date for my commission session extended to cover for the days I take to tackle this issue and if I reply back with a sketch a bit slowly, it's because I try to finish piece from person to person now. I will also try to have the queue order be more accurate when I update it.
You know how they say, you can't really spot the cellphone tower hidden among the trees until it is pointed to you. When you do see it, you can no longer unsee it will start to spot it in plain sight. The same can be say about art. The more I learn, the more I pay attention to the tiny details and I always tackle them when I draw a new piece.
Recently though, I have been working on pieces I have left hanging around for weeks or even months. While I may not notice them right away, the actual sketch and the foundation of the piece is no longer as strong anymore. When I start refining the piece and clearing up the stuff, the blatant mistake start to stand out and the whole thing is like a spaghetti coding where I try to fix one obvious bugs and suddenly the next 10 appear out of nowhere. In the end, the piece comes out feeling like it takes way more effort than it should for less than stellar quality.
Working on stuff recently though, I try to redraw pieces from zero again instead and it helps me realize where I have been going wrong especially with how I have been working on commission where I sometime work on too many pieces at once in a set with a bunch of sketches handed out. I work best when I actually try to finish stuff right away instead of leaving them hanging around and that's how I should go back to approaching my art.
And that's how I will work now. I won't just send updates to 5-6 people at once anymore and instead try to finish people piece as they come and go like a more active artist I should have been and if it's clear than redrawing the whole thing from scratch is going to be the better for the piece, then I should do it.
I will have the date for my commission session extended to cover for the days I take to tackle this issue and if I reply back with a sketch a bit slowly, it's because I try to finish piece from person to person now. I will also try to have the queue order be more accurate when I update it.
Just get the rough sketch approved and that's that.