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Where's my work going?
14 years ago
Working on http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5941087/ got me thinking about where I've been going with my artwork and technique (since it was an update to http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5405731/ created partly to see just how much I've changed). Overall, I think I like where my style is going. Generally speaking, in the last few pictures I've created line art has been developing to become smoother and sharper with better straight lines and cleaner and more even curves, which is where I think it should be. Coloring work has been tending to use larger soft round brushes and trying to use single rather than multiple passes for much smoother color and shadowing and environmental lighting gradients than I usually used to. I've also been getting better, I think, at creating and using a more realistic visual sense of texture where it's called for.
Backgrounds are something I keep going back and forth on. I used to really like to paint full, detailed backgrounds, but right now, I think I'm starting to drift away from doing that. Overall, I just find them not really that fun to do, and actually, on the second one of Tangerine the vixen(http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5911508/), it was pretty frustrating, I ended up tossing it and recoloring the entire image over again from bare line art. Aside from that, it seems like I keep finding that using a simpler and less complicated background of softer shapes and colors ends up being more visually pleasing and often a better compliment to the characters I'm trying to draw because it doesn't contain a panorama of extra complex details to distract viewers with. Some pictures call for fully developed backgrounds by virtue of what the picture is supposed to be, to create the atmosphere or environmental scenario and immersion that creates a context important to the depiction, but drawing them "just because" is something I think I'm aiming to get away from. I really love how the background in this one turned out, and it ended up being super easy compared to almost any other background I've used before.
That also leads to the subject of speed. It typically takes a long time for me to finish a piece of work, and I haven't made much headway on getting any faster the whole time I've been creating digital art. I'm not that worried about it, because all I really care about is achieving quality, but I see certain ways that I could pick up speed and I should probably work on it at some point because being faster would ultimately let me create and finish more of the images I get ideas for.
So that's how things are going for me artistically.
Backgrounds are something I keep going back and forth on. I used to really like to paint full, detailed backgrounds, but right now, I think I'm starting to drift away from doing that. Overall, I just find them not really that fun to do, and actually, on the second one of Tangerine the vixen(http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5911508/), it was pretty frustrating, I ended up tossing it and recoloring the entire image over again from bare line art. Aside from that, it seems like I keep finding that using a simpler and less complicated background of softer shapes and colors ends up being more visually pleasing and often a better compliment to the characters I'm trying to draw because it doesn't contain a panorama of extra complex details to distract viewers with. Some pictures call for fully developed backgrounds by virtue of what the picture is supposed to be, to create the atmosphere or environmental scenario and immersion that creates a context important to the depiction, but drawing them "just because" is something I think I'm aiming to get away from. I really love how the background in this one turned out, and it ended up being super easy compared to almost any other background I've used before.
That also leads to the subject of speed. It typically takes a long time for me to finish a piece of work, and I haven't made much headway on getting any faster the whole time I've been creating digital art. I'm not that worried about it, because all I really care about is achieving quality, but I see certain ways that I could pick up speed and I should probably work on it at some point because being faster would ultimately let me create and finish more of the images I get ideas for.
So that's how things are going for me artistically.
