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14 years ago
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I need to do a lot of scanning.
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Who am I kidding, I need to do a lot of things x.x
There are a lot of projects and a few owed pieces that i still need to finish, if not start.. Bee_dog, for one, I have my side of our trade started, but not scanned. I wanna digitise and make it look pretty.
I have that industrial cow i started. I have a whole plethora of images to colour, it's so not funny... I need to find my Muse again. I used to have skill almost on demand, but I've recently let it slide way down hill. So far that it's hard to find again.
I think it's because I lost faith in my ability to pick colours apart.. A more recent revealing to me of my own colour sight has set off a very deep doubt in my mind. A doubt that had always been there, admittedly, but was never strong or determined enough to really do anything.
Now, this time it has Facts to latch on to, and it's not letting go. It makes it _so_ hard to trust in my own skills to colour anymore...
Not really sure... But once it becomes solid, proven knowledge that you cannot actually see the colour green, or any of it's constituents (your brain just 'pretends' it can), you tend to lose some faith. Makes you wonder if -anything- you've coloured actually looks like what you think it looks like, or that any future ones ever will.
I've made too many extraordinarily dumb mistakes in the past, makes me want to just completely avoid the chance of it happening again.
So, i just don't colour anymore. Hmh... Might just leave that up to someone else, if they want to take over that part.
Any volunteers?
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Who am I kidding, I need to do a lot of things x.x
There are a lot of projects and a few owed pieces that i still need to finish, if not start.. Bee_dog, for one, I have my side of our trade started, but not scanned. I wanna digitise and make it look pretty.
I have that industrial cow i started. I have a whole plethora of images to colour, it's so not funny... I need to find my Muse again. I used to have skill almost on demand, but I've recently let it slide way down hill. So far that it's hard to find again.
I think it's because I lost faith in my ability to pick colours apart.. A more recent revealing to me of my own colour sight has set off a very deep doubt in my mind. A doubt that had always been there, admittedly, but was never strong or determined enough to really do anything.
Now, this time it has Facts to latch on to, and it's not letting go. It makes it _so_ hard to trust in my own skills to colour anymore...
Not really sure... But once it becomes solid, proven knowledge that you cannot actually see the colour green, or any of it's constituents (your brain just 'pretends' it can), you tend to lose some faith. Makes you wonder if -anything- you've coloured actually looks like what you think it looks like, or that any future ones ever will.
I've made too many extraordinarily dumb mistakes in the past, makes me want to just completely avoid the chance of it happening again.
So, i just don't colour anymore. Hmh... Might just leave that up to someone else, if they want to take over that part.
Any volunteers?
I think all your art is fantastic in any case but if you want I can do colouring for you (I know I'm not great and all but yeah)
*squishy hugs*
as for the person taking over your coloring? /jealous
XD
The colouring job you did on that one was bloody awesome. Yes, I know there's no green, but do you remember how hard you worked on it?
Don't give up. You can create amazing things!
And if you really think your colouring isn't up to snuff (which is isn't!), there's always sidestepping the whole colour issue with finishing in greytone / lineart instead of colour...
But consider the artist Monet:
Monet had cataracts. While nobody can say for sure if the condition was responsible for the blurred look that initially made his paintings so influential, we do know that as his condition worsened with age, his paintings became blurrier. And since cataracts affect your ability to perceive colour, what began as paintings of green lilies...
...became lilies tinged slightly pink and brown and then, eventually, red lilies.
The art world assumed he was intentionally using the wrong colours and blurring images more than ever. If anything, this later work encouraged other impressionist painters to take more risks with colours and style. Everything Monet produced, including his red lilies, was considered invaluable...