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Finished a commission that has been LONG in the making - if you attended some of my livestreams on Youtube a while ago, you might recognize this one! The commissioner has been SO kind and insanely patient over the rough patches of my life throughout work on this.
I want to share an anecdote about this drawing - I'm quite bad at time management and something of a perfectionist. For anyone who has those two things, it's a bad combo because it means many projects get started and very few get finished, especially in a timely manner ^^; With this drawing, the prompt was so epic and the character (Nala) was actually based off of my own dragonborn paladin design,, so it was a bit like drawing my own character! (plus D&D prompts are the BEST and I rarely get to draw them). All those things together meant I wanted to do the BEST JOB EVARRR but because of that, I got paralyzed and too scared to work on the drawing - because once I put pen to tablet, I might make something bad and worse than what I'd imagined for it. Add in all the big (both good and bad) events that have happened in my life in the past ~2 years and you get a very, unacceptably slow progress on a paid piece.
Recently however I've heard the advice: "Just put in 70% effort, because finished at 70% is better than forever incomplete at 100%."
I've found it extremely helpful - letting my perfectionist self think "It's ok, 70% and average is good enough" whenever I start something has gotten me through a lot more than fretting about everything being right or needing the perfect inspiration has done. When I sat down to finish this, I was like "Just get it done, if it's just OK, that's fine." But what ended up happening is that once I forced myself to draw, I was able to concentrate and actually put out that 100% so in the end the drawing became something I'm really quite happy with. :)
Anyway, just wanted to tell the story in case it can help anyone else out who has that lovely combo of scatterbrained + perfectionist!
Dungeons and Dragons © Wizards of the Coast
Character (Nala, Dragonborn Rogue) owned by Jakobfinney on Instagram, character design © myself (armor based of Guild Wars 2 armor set)
Please do not use this image without Jakobfinney's permission!
I want to share an anecdote about this drawing - I'm quite bad at time management and something of a perfectionist. For anyone who has those two things, it's a bad combo because it means many projects get started and very few get finished, especially in a timely manner ^^; With this drawing, the prompt was so epic and the character (Nala) was actually based off of my own dragonborn paladin design,, so it was a bit like drawing my own character! (plus D&D prompts are the BEST and I rarely get to draw them). All those things together meant I wanted to do the BEST JOB EVARRR but because of that, I got paralyzed and too scared to work on the drawing - because once I put pen to tablet, I might make something bad and worse than what I'd imagined for it. Add in all the big (both good and bad) events that have happened in my life in the past ~2 years and you get a very, unacceptably slow progress on a paid piece.
Recently however I've heard the advice: "Just put in 70% effort, because finished at 70% is better than forever incomplete at 100%."
I've found it extremely helpful - letting my perfectionist self think "It's ok, 70% and average is good enough" whenever I start something has gotten me through a lot more than fretting about everything being right or needing the perfect inspiration has done. When I sat down to finish this, I was like "Just get it done, if it's just OK, that's fine." But what ended up happening is that once I forced myself to draw, I was able to concentrate and actually put out that 100% so in the end the drawing became something I'm really quite happy with. :)
Anyway, just wanted to tell the story in case it can help anyone else out who has that lovely combo of scatterbrained + perfectionist!
Dungeons and Dragons © Wizards of the Coast
Character (Nala, Dragonborn Rogue) owned by Jakobfinney on Instagram, character design © myself (armor based of Guild Wars 2 armor set)
Please do not use this image without Jakobfinney's permission!
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Dragon (Other)
Size 2431 x 1515px
File Size 5.3 MB
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