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5 years ago
So I'm just making up an excuse to post a journal. I'm not inactive here because I don't come here, but more that my art takes me such a long time I dont know how to fill up the inbetween. I'm very slow at art, I think for as much skill I am lacking, I try to make up for it in tenacity. Just spending all the time necessary messing with a problem area until by statistical probability I chance into something looking good enough.
I've started a youtube channel which is largely aimless, I've been throwing up beat saber gameplay but my long term focus is using it for art stuff. I've made two timelapse videos of my pieces and I think thats something I want to go along with my larger sized commissions, an additional video that documents the process which is in the last case, a very long process. I doubt people are going to sit through an 1hr and 30min of me messing around with wrinkles in a pair of pants. I'd love it if I were the kind of artist who throws down a line and its just exactly the right thing but my brain doesn't seem to work that way and I have to start out with the equivalent of crayon fridge art and slowly work it into something better. These timelapses have actually had a bit of a negative effect on my art, because I've been having to consider it while I'm drawing, thinking about how all of these pauses or breaks I'm taking need to be edited out, it puts pressure on me that I didn't use to have and I've found it unhelpful...Though recently I've kind of pushed myself to just let it run and let future me worry about the editing process.
What else is, my art is actually very contingent upon me mackin and snacc'in. Like I need to be face first into a bowl of cronchy chocolate smackums to do it and I've actually been doing p90x3 for over a month now, which means I have to eat more sensibly.
What else is there to bring up?...
Thinking about doing more human feet for my characters instead of the traditional 4 toe paws. I don't actually like human feet better, but I think I've had trouble getting the right aesthetics with it and wonder if 5 toe style with a large pad sole would be better.
uhh...My brain is a haze right now. Journal over, I'm gonna go grab another handful of twix which i put in the kitchen hoping it would detour me from eating too much but it hasn't.
COMMISSIONS WORK LIST
SPOT 1:
MahaloCheetah
SPOT 2:
Sheparoo
SPOT 3: OPEN
SPOT 4: OPEN
SPOT 5: OPEN
I've started a youtube channel which is largely aimless, I've been throwing up beat saber gameplay but my long term focus is using it for art stuff. I've made two timelapse videos of my pieces and I think thats something I want to go along with my larger sized commissions, an additional video that documents the process which is in the last case, a very long process. I doubt people are going to sit through an 1hr and 30min of me messing around with wrinkles in a pair of pants. I'd love it if I were the kind of artist who throws down a line and its just exactly the right thing but my brain doesn't seem to work that way and I have to start out with the equivalent of crayon fridge art and slowly work it into something better. These timelapses have actually had a bit of a negative effect on my art, because I've been having to consider it while I'm drawing, thinking about how all of these pauses or breaks I'm taking need to be edited out, it puts pressure on me that I didn't use to have and I've found it unhelpful...Though recently I've kind of pushed myself to just let it run and let future me worry about the editing process.
What else is, my art is actually very contingent upon me mackin and snacc'in. Like I need to be face first into a bowl of cronchy chocolate smackums to do it and I've actually been doing p90x3 for over a month now, which means I have to eat more sensibly.
What else is there to bring up?...
Thinking about doing more human feet for my characters instead of the traditional 4 toe paws. I don't actually like human feet better, but I think I've had trouble getting the right aesthetics with it and wonder if 5 toe style with a large pad sole would be better.
uhh...My brain is a haze right now. Journal over, I'm gonna go grab another handful of twix which i put in the kitchen hoping it would detour me from eating too much but it hasn't.
COMMISSIONS WORK LIST
SPOT 1:
MahaloCheetahSPOT 2:
SheparooSPOT 3: OPEN
SPOT 4: OPEN
SPOT 5: OPEN
Who knows, maybe the Twix corporation will realize I'm their biggest fan and ask me to create their twix-sona and I'll be a millionaire! A TWIX MILLIONAIRE!
But I get you about not posting stuff as regularly as you'd like. Some artists out there will make a rough sketch and post it and get lots off attention from that. I'm sure as time goes on you will get better at placing those lines so you don't have to keep redoing them, and the creative process will take less and less time.
If you want to post more often why don't you try posting Work in Progress pics after you've finished each stage? It will make your channel more visible and you'll probably get a few more watchers as furs come to check out the rest of your gallery out of curiosity. I've noticed on my own page you tend to get more people follow you when they see you post regular updates, which is why I think as
worseless talented artists get a lot of attention; because they just pump out artwork at insane speed and don't take the time and care that you do.I definitely don't want to shift over to quantity over quality but, well I don't know what I can do. Partially I started my YouTube channel because there isn't a lot of extra stuff I have to do to get the extra content for videos. I just need to record my painting, then I can post the painting and then the timelapse and thats almost free extra content.
I kind of wish FA had a twitter-like function so I could just post my every stupid thought or even little bits of content that dont warrant a full upload slot in my gallery.
Well what if you made an alt account where you could put your lower quality content so that it doesn't ruin you're own opinion of this account, and with a link leading to this one where you can display your best works.
Its only kind of a bad thing for the entertainment of my livestream, the timelapses and productivity but I suppose its a good thing for being more thorough and detail oriented which is what I like to do. I sometimes see people posting just huge volumes of art, like, how you do that?! I'm over here slumped in my chair to the point I basically laying down spending 5 hours trying to make some small part not look terrible. WHAT A SCENE! I shouldn't complain though.
Like I'm feeling like just stopping and going to lay down, then someone joins and I'm like, OOF!...Gotta keep going. But I do have very loyal and regular viewers who stick with me! I appreciate that.
Dab haters
About your art, every person have a different development and yours as you says.
Takes time, but they are really good, you're more a sculpting person, that's all. Sure we wish to be able to put the correct line directly it would save a ton of time, me too.
But sometimes it's not our thing.
About editing, if working on pressure is not for you, then, don't work on pressure, and for the stream poses, you can stop/pause the recording when you do the pause too, just don't forget to take it back on when you back and your future self won't have to worry too much about editing either :p.
Even less productive than you I know the feel, for the YT channel too.
Do you work some sketches to stretches about things you don't like/do often ? Like those human feets ?
I ate too many twix by the way, this week isn't going to be a whole lot with the weight loss I'm afraid.
I pretty much do most things I don't do often as commissions kind of force me into doing things I otherwise wouldn't. Like I don't really do digitigrade legs but if the person requests those I have to do them well. Or if I'm a fan of smaller feet, the commissioner might say, make them bigger.
I am trying out the more human feet, I currently do a kind of hybrid, which is almost like digitigrade but its human foot length. So a traditional 4 toed paw where the ball of your foot would be and then a heel that can either rest on the floor or up like the inverted knee of a digiitgrade leg. Right now I'm thinking it might look better for the whole sole of the feet and hands to be like a paw pad...I'm also really big into adding those pink spots like you see on some animals.
I struggle with poses the most, nothing ever feels dynamic and interesting enough to warrent my full effort and even if initially it looks dynamic, an hour later it might not and I make changes, possibly to its detriment. Its hard to know. Its amazing how something can look right but a little while later and its WAY wrong.
Haha ! don't tell me xD Wayyyyyy too often !
You want weight loss ? But those poor twix will be alone ! :(
And do you sketch, do some experiments out of commissions range and submissions range ?
Hybrid feets paws etc... are verry interesting things.
And for shoes, I find recently an artist on twitter. (read the date : way, it was recent in my head) who did a job really speaking to me and what I would like to do on my digitigrade char (most of them)
https://twitter.com/_kunaru/status/.....827009537?s=20
Maybe for dynamic, (even bad artist as I am) it helps sometimes to do the shadow of what you want, and then try to stick and correct the character in that shadow.
I don't really do anything outside of what pictures you see uploaded. I've never actually worked on practice pictures, really theres nothing I've done that isn't ultimately uploaded, so its really a complete timeline of my art. The most experimenting I've done recently is I was commissioned to do a few more stylized pictures. You'll see them in my gallery, the two for Lurker and the cat opening the portal. Those 3 were all experimental.
Yeah in that link there, those were the kind of feet I did, for the most part. I thought they were a good inbetween and I still like them even if I might try another style for now. I'll give your shadow idea a try, I know theres methods called searching where you basically just put stuff down and your brain things out of the randomness and you can basically find your art hidden in the shapes.
Am I right ?
I saw and commented those experiments :p
Experiments are great ! They probably can drive you on unexpected ways :D
...............I'm hungry.
Do you want something to eat ? Like a cookie ?
It must be accompanied, and progressive on both ways, when you start and when you stop.
If you feel better after those intermittent fasting why not, but if it's just a constraint, be wise :3
And often, yes trying to get in shape is no fun.
That's a part why I wish to have my house one day. Always fixing constructing things, and more self pushed to do heavy stuff. I hope. :p
Its exercise lifting all that food, so it counts.
"never eat butterfingers"
But if you invite me, a day who knows, I could be here.
You know there was a time in my early art where I drew 3 toed paws. I have no idea why, did I think paws had 3 toes?
you must draw pictures of twix to draw in more doggos :V
Also don't look at my garbage can....its not filled to the top with twix wrappers or anything.
Maybe streaming would be a good option to fill the inbetween time. There probably are some perfectionists maniacs who wouldn't mind the slow tempo of your creating.
Also you can also try to paint humanesque feet but with our toes. Sorta like Herro does.
I think what people do who watch me is they'll leave my stream open and periodically click back into the tab to see whats changed.
I think my advice about your video style is the same that I offer to any artist about their art itself: Do what feels right for you and your audience will find you. Also, you'll figure it out as you gain experience with the medium, I think—time lapsing in some places, wholesale editing out in others, and so on. I would not worry about this until after the raw video is made; it's much easier to make editing decisions after the fact.
I do know some art YouTubers who are very skillful at deciding on the spot when to timelapse, but they have been doing such videos for years and I think they've found their groove. Take your time, learn the ropes, and you'll get to a great place.
Also, if snacking is a problem, my best advice is to just not have it in the house at all. I'll let myself get a treat once or twice a week, but that's it; I don't keep chips, pretzel, candy, sugary drinks, etc in the house because it's very hard to ration oneself. Get rid of it and just buy one thing (and only one thing) when you have a craving for it. It's hard to do at first, but the urges really fade within a week or two and your waistline will thank you!
I've been buying a bunch of boneless chicken thighs and then putting them in a bag with home made teriyaki sauce with no sugar. Thats been pretty good but I'm wondering if I'm counting the calories of rice wrong. Been shooting for 1,800 calories a day and trying to avoid stuff, but then bad food keeps finding its way into my life :V
Lets get Soba noodles!