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Inking tonight -- some confidence boosting
3 years ago
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Inking tonight at the usual place, http://picarto.tv/rimme at 6:30 PM Eastern. I will be inking the next comic page. There's a lot of figures to draw, which means more time to take to draw it, but there's not that much detail to the backgrounds, so it should go faster. Plus, every night is a chance to push myself a little more, to get more confident with the inking, and to go a little bit faster.
You know that memetic chart that shows confidence as an M-shaped curve over time? It's true. It's an ongoing process of getting confident enough in your own art to fall into a rhythm, to have a style you fall into; then you look at other people's art with fresh eyes, and for the first time you understand what they do differently than you; and you have that moment of crisis where you're not sure your style can stand up to theirs, and wonder in doubt if you should mimic that special technique that makes their art resonate with you, or if your own art somehow has that magic appeal you're craving.
There are so many techniques to learn and practice. Consistency, personality, realism, proportion, anatomy, spatial rotation, framing, character design, graphic design, color theory. and more. Each day, each stage, there's always something to practice. It's one of the things that's held me back from opening commissions until now (which are still open, btw, 1 SLOT LEFT).
Inking is one of those areas, thankfully, where I am feeling somewhat confident in at the moment. I may not have the careful draftsmanship that stickmanwww or ivanfromafar have, or the lively personality that sky3 or gillpanda have, but I do have some control and sense over the line weights, and I think my sketch holds up pretty well on its own, which is always good for inking.
So this turned out to be a long journal. Guess it's one of those days. Feel free to watch tonight, gonna be reliving some oldies~!
You know that memetic chart that shows confidence as an M-shaped curve over time? It's true. It's an ongoing process of getting confident enough in your own art to fall into a rhythm, to have a style you fall into; then you look at other people's art with fresh eyes, and for the first time you understand what they do differently than you; and you have that moment of crisis where you're not sure your style can stand up to theirs, and wonder in doubt if you should mimic that special technique that makes their art resonate with you, or if your own art somehow has that magic appeal you're craving.
There are so many techniques to learn and practice. Consistency, personality, realism, proportion, anatomy, spatial rotation, framing, character design, graphic design, color theory. and more. Each day, each stage, there's always something to practice. It's one of the things that's held me back from opening commissions until now (which are still open, btw, 1 SLOT LEFT).
Inking is one of those areas, thankfully, where I am feeling somewhat confident in at the moment. I may not have the careful draftsmanship that stickmanwww or ivanfromafar have, or the lively personality that sky3 or gillpanda have, but I do have some control and sense over the line weights, and I think my sketch holds up pretty well on its own, which is always good for inking.
So this turned out to be a long journal. Guess it's one of those days. Feel free to watch tonight, gonna be reliving some oldies~!
