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6 years ago
Hey guys
Firstly I want to apologize my commissioners for all delays. I had quite a lot on my mind in last two weeks and when comes to work pretty nothing went the way I wanted (I also felt a bit burned out). In between I came to the family for Christmas and there was a lot to do, so I didn't had too much time for drawing - I needed to help my family with Christmas preparations. I also just got ill (just day after I decided to back to systematic workouts and did some simple exercises, thank you, my body xD) and currently I'm not feeling too well, a sore throad began, but I hope to feel a bit better tomorrow because you know, Christmas.
Btw, I have question to you guys. Do you mostly digital art or traditional art person? If you work digitally in a daily basis, do you ever miss process of creating traditional art? I work only digitally for a pretty long time, and I started to really miss feeling of traditional art. I hate the fact that to start work traditionally you need to prepare a place, papers, paints, brushes - everything, but I also miss a lot this vibe of traditional medias, when everything is already prepared for work and you can just paint. One day I would love to have special desk dedicated to traditional media, where everything will be always prepared to work and I would only need to sit down and start creating. Ahh, dreams!
Firstly I want to apologize my commissioners for all delays. I had quite a lot on my mind in last two weeks and when comes to work pretty nothing went the way I wanted (I also felt a bit burned out). In between I came to the family for Christmas and there was a lot to do, so I didn't had too much time for drawing - I needed to help my family with Christmas preparations. I also just got ill (just day after I decided to back to systematic workouts and did some simple exercises, thank you, my body xD) and currently I'm not feeling too well, a sore throad began, but I hope to feel a bit better tomorrow because you know, Christmas.
Btw, I have question to you guys. Do you mostly digital art or traditional art person? If you work digitally in a daily basis, do you ever miss process of creating traditional art? I work only digitally for a pretty long time, and I started to really miss feeling of traditional art. I hate the fact that to start work traditionally you need to prepare a place, papers, paints, brushes - everything, but I also miss a lot this vibe of traditional medias, when everything is already prepared for work and you can just paint. One day I would love to have special desk dedicated to traditional media, where everything will be always prepared to work and I would only need to sit down and start creating. Ahh, dreams!
When I try complicares stuff, my hand just won't move as it did years ago... I would advise not letting go of your traditional slikks and having at least 20 minutes to paint a day or something.
Just take a weekend or whatever, a few hours to set everything up in a room / space you can use and leave it like that, use for a bit each day x'D
I work tradigitally; pretty much everything I do is partially on paper, partially in pixel. Typically, I pencil and ink on paper, then spot blacks and letter digitally ("spotting blacks" as in: filling areas of solid black. It saves on ink, and means I don't have to use expensive, heavy, absorptive paper for routine work).
I used to colour digitally, before coming to the conclusion that I just don't like working with colour, digital or manual. Not because I was bad at it, or because it was too much work, I just... didn't enjoy doing it. So, now I just work in B/W/grays, and I love it. I could draw and ink all day long, and my process cuts down on digital post-production as much as possible.
Admittedly, I learned to draw from life when I was 15, so I'm somewhat biased towards working on paper.
Regardless: I do find working manually to be more satisfying, more tactile, while digital is more... tedious. If it weren't for online publishing/distribution, I'd probably do everything on paper.
At least, that's how it is for me. Everyone has their own way.
PS: I hardly ever get the reflex to hit ctrl+Z when working on paper, but I have caught myself reflexively going for ctrl+F when I need to find one implement or another (where is my hawk-quill nib? Where did I leave my kneaded eraser? etc). X3