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How long can one person be sick?! Also, color stuff.
10 years ago
Guess who still has mono, nearly four months later? It even seems to have relapsed, which is fun. I sure did miss feeling pain in my spleen.
Art output has obviously been close to nil. I am eager for that to change, once I have the energy.
Because this fab tutorial got posted in my Twitter feed recently and it covers a subject that I'd been doing a lot of thinking about recently. My painterly shading style is a bit... off, a bit un-dimensional to my eyes, and I think working on working more colors into the shadows and highlights may be what I'm missing.
I think the thing that'd get me caught up with that is -- what about characters with a lot of stripes and spots? Admittedly, most of my painting experience is with actual paint, where layers aren't an option.
It's really a very interesting area (well, for me, haha) and it really makes me wish I had the energy for much experimentation lately.
Mono sucks. Don't share drinks, kids.
Art output has obviously been close to nil. I am eager for that to change, once I have the energy.
Because this fab tutorial got posted in my Twitter feed recently and it covers a subject that I'd been doing a lot of thinking about recently. My painterly shading style is a bit... off, a bit un-dimensional to my eyes, and I think working on working more colors into the shadows and highlights may be what I'm missing.
I think the thing that'd get me caught up with that is -- what about characters with a lot of stripes and spots? Admittedly, most of my painting experience is with actual paint, where layers aren't an option.
It's really a very interesting area (well, for me, haha) and it really makes me wish I had the energy for much experimentation lately.
Mono sucks. Don't share drinks, kids.
get well soon!
and yay for spots&stripes. :)
I am tryin'! I have so many drawing and character ideas and I wanna have the energy for art again. ;_;
I really hope you can get your energy back so you can get back to art! That tutorial looks really good. It's always fun to play with cold and warm balances in color. Opens up a whole new world of possibilities and ways to give a piece more depth and in some ways more flowing colors that can make a piece more eye catching and appealing. Really fun stuff to experiment with and I might just have to use that tutorial and do some experimenting myself.
Augh right?! I'm not entirely sure how to integrate that into my workflow (like, I don't think multiply layers would be good for that, maybe I could paint the figure a base color and do my shading on that and add any spotty/stripey bits as an overlay layer?) but I'm keen to try. Seeing that chart was a pretty clear lightbulb moment for me.