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An Interesting turn of events
7 years ago
As a Certified Art Goblin, I am unable to sit still, and not drawing has made me go nuts a bit.
So I decided to try my hand at painting digitally with my left hand! (I am right handed)
Now... I know how this sounds. "That's silly, you can't draw with your left hand if you're right handed, it'll look a mess!" Yeah, well, that's only partially true.
While most people easily get frustrated with drawing or writing with their non-dominant arm, I tried to look at it in a different way.
I have the mentality that my art can't look like that of a 5 year old, why? Because I'm a god-dang 23 year old who has gone to UNIVERSITY FOR ART. I HAVE DEDICATED ALMOST EVERY DAY OF THE LAST 6 YEARS OF MY LIFE TO MY CRAFT.
And as such, I already have the knowledge of colour, and anatomy, and posing, and composition. These are things that I don't have to learn any more, so my starting point is not so bad!
The ONLY thing I need to learn is how to control my left hand. It's mobile, and fully functional, it's just not very good at holding a pencil for more than 30 minutes, but that's ok! I understand that it will maybe take months for my left hand to get the level of control that my right hand has, but at this point, ya gotta work baby steps, and any improvement is good! And uhhhm yeah I started the journey yesterday, and so far?? It's actually been decent! Now... most of you will know me for my illustrated work, but I've been trying my hand at digital painting this year and there are several distinctions between these styles, and that is that... Illustration is usually super tight, and painting is much more relaxed and messy. Knowing this, I knew that I would only get frustrated at the lack of control of my left hand for any illustrated work, and I've decided instead to pursue painting!
And here are some things I've cranked out!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvhDZ1MXgAEOLI4.jpg A portrait of my friend's D&D tiefling fighter. Not the most impressive thing, but the planes of his face are really nice.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvgzBWoWkAAJ9Id.jpg A landscape thing?? idk, organic backgrounds are so nice to work on with this method!
I'm also currently working on a portrait of my half-elf bard and it's still in a very ugly stage.
What I want to say to y'all is that if my hand needs some extensive recuperation, then I might open.... kinda shitty left-handed digital painting commissions?? I'll need to draw my fursona as an example but yEAH THIS IS A THING.
TL;DR
I'm trying to become ambidextrous for drawing and so far my paintings don;t suck ass and I'm legit considering making them a commission option while my actual drawing hand recovers.
So I decided to try my hand at painting digitally with my left hand! (I am right handed)
Now... I know how this sounds. "That's silly, you can't draw with your left hand if you're right handed, it'll look a mess!" Yeah, well, that's only partially true.
While most people easily get frustrated with drawing or writing with their non-dominant arm, I tried to look at it in a different way.
I have the mentality that my art can't look like that of a 5 year old, why? Because I'm a god-dang 23 year old who has gone to UNIVERSITY FOR ART. I HAVE DEDICATED ALMOST EVERY DAY OF THE LAST 6 YEARS OF MY LIFE TO MY CRAFT.
And as such, I already have the knowledge of colour, and anatomy, and posing, and composition. These are things that I don't have to learn any more, so my starting point is not so bad!
The ONLY thing I need to learn is how to control my left hand. It's mobile, and fully functional, it's just not very good at holding a pencil for more than 30 minutes, but that's ok! I understand that it will maybe take months for my left hand to get the level of control that my right hand has, but at this point, ya gotta work baby steps, and any improvement is good! And uhhhm yeah I started the journey yesterday, and so far?? It's actually been decent! Now... most of you will know me for my illustrated work, but I've been trying my hand at digital painting this year and there are several distinctions between these styles, and that is that... Illustration is usually super tight, and painting is much more relaxed and messy. Knowing this, I knew that I would only get frustrated at the lack of control of my left hand for any illustrated work, and I've decided instead to pursue painting!
And here are some things I've cranked out!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvhDZ1MXgAEOLI4.jpg A portrait of my friend's D&D tiefling fighter. Not the most impressive thing, but the planes of his face are really nice.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvgzBWoWkAAJ9Id.jpg A landscape thing?? idk, organic backgrounds are so nice to work on with this method!
I'm also currently working on a portrait of my half-elf bard and it's still in a very ugly stage.
What I want to say to y'all is that if my hand needs some extensive recuperation, then I might open.... kinda shitty left-handed digital painting commissions?? I'll need to draw my fursona as an example but yEAH THIS IS A THING.
TL;DR
I'm trying to become ambidextrous for drawing and so far my paintings don;t suck ass and I'm legit considering making them a commission option while my actual drawing hand recovers.
Lycanthris
~lycanthris
Those are pretty impressive! :3
CatsDesire
~catsdesire
OP
Thank you! It's impressive what you can get done with an iron will and patience, and I have to admit, the results came out much better than I anticipated!
