A reflection on abandoned art.
7 years ago
Every time I open my art folder to start drawing something new, I see tons of old art that I haven't posted here; things that I half-finished drawing and then lost interest in or forgot about, or things that I finished coloring and shading but never uploaded because I never quite finished touching up the details to an extent that I was satisfied with.
Now, your first impression might be that I should just upload all of these images that are practically done, but a lot of them are older work that I don't like anymore because the anatomy and shading is noticeably worse than what I'm capable of drawing today, so if I uploaded them then they would look a lot more "off" compared to the rest of my recent work.
Now, there are a few things I've drawn that I like the idea of enough that, when I have the time, I might be willing to just re-draw most of it from the ground up and start over, but that would be time consuming, and I'm not interested in doing that for all of my old unpublished art.
So, what do you think I should do with all of my abandoned work that I've never published? Should I just ignore it, upload it anyway, redraw it, or what? If you're an artist like me, have you had a similar problem with old work that you wish you'd finished but time has passed now and you're just not in the same place as you were back then, and enough distance has passed that you feel like the time to have shared it is already long gone?
One more possibility: Should I perhaps take some of my better unfinished works, touch up the lineart a bit, and release just the lineart alone as a blank that some other artist can then color in and shade if they'd like to?
Now, your first impression might be that I should just upload all of these images that are practically done, but a lot of them are older work that I don't like anymore because the anatomy and shading is noticeably worse than what I'm capable of drawing today, so if I uploaded them then they would look a lot more "off" compared to the rest of my recent work.
Now, there are a few things I've drawn that I like the idea of enough that, when I have the time, I might be willing to just re-draw most of it from the ground up and start over, but that would be time consuming, and I'm not interested in doing that for all of my old unpublished art.
So, what do you think I should do with all of my abandoned work that I've never published? Should I just ignore it, upload it anyway, redraw it, or what? If you're an artist like me, have you had a similar problem with old work that you wish you'd finished but time has passed now and you're just not in the same place as you were back then, and enough distance has passed that you feel like the time to have shared it is already long gone?
One more possibility: Should I perhaps take some of my better unfinished works, touch up the lineart a bit, and release just the lineart alone as a blank that some other artist can then color in and shade if they'd like to?
FursterMan
~fursterman
Meh, just ignore it.
SomeRando
~foxintheanthill
Go for it.
Chris Kit
~tails230
I would say upload them into your scraps or put them in a Google Drive folder to share.
Skinth
~skinth
I’d say either upload them into scraps under the title of “ye olde ideas,” or put them in a Dropbox folder and share ‘em that way~!
DL_Draco_Rex
~dldracorex
This is what scraps is for.
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