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Texas Furry Fiesta's theme was a little difficult this year...I boiled it down to "things that don't go together chronologically"...so, things that don't make any damned sense. What makes less sense than a deinonychus in Aztec clothing using an Ipad?
This illustrates well why I hate traditional mediums. I can try as hard or as little as I want, plan as much or as little as I want...but whether or not something turns out well seems completely random to me. Every time I think I find a medium that works well for me, it stops working well...its almost a guarantee that if I switch to a medium I haven't done in a while, it'll go well, and if I succeed and then later try to replicate that process...it fails. Its incredibly frustrating. With digital, I plan, I go through certain steps, and the end result is a direct result of how much effort, planning, and care I put in. Its a process that I am in control of.
So I switched to gouache for this one only because when I work with gouache I get to sit in my chair instead of the floor, and my back was still hurting from figure drawing yesterday.
Original is 5x18".
This illustrates well why I hate traditional mediums. I can try as hard or as little as I want, plan as much or as little as I want...but whether or not something turns out well seems completely random to me. Every time I think I find a medium that works well for me, it stops working well...its almost a guarantee that if I switch to a medium I haven't done in a while, it'll go well, and if I succeed and then later try to replicate that process...it fails. Its incredibly frustrating. With digital, I plan, I go through certain steps, and the end result is a direct result of how much effort, planning, and care I put in. Its a process that I am in control of.
So I switched to gouache for this one only because when I work with gouache I get to sit in my chair instead of the floor, and my back was still hurting from figure drawing yesterday.
Original is 5x18".
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I use a lot of traditional media and am just getting cooking on digital.
First of all, Gouache is a bitch. :P It is nota friendly media and you go from lovely to mud in 10 seconds flat. Don't even try and beat yourself up for that.. the true masters of it were those illio guys in the early part of the 20th century who could just blast it out. Or Alex Ross. Remember that they did not use a lot of layers but just sorta splashed color around mixed off the board. The chalky effect is really nice, but I think most people use acrylic or oil if they can stand it. :> So, you did amazingly well for a medium that sucks to work with anyways.
That being said, I think there is a certain measure of traditional art that makes one be sorta Zen with the unexpected. I learned this lesson when I was casting bronze... you don't have a lot of revision there if things cast funny. You make the best of it and move on. I find that digital slows me down terribly because I *do* have the ability to undo, so I tend to worry bits and pieces when it would probably have been fine if I had been watercoloring. I think letting go and letting the art do what it wants is a hard thing sometimes, but much like trying to train a cat, it will do what it wants anyways. :) And there's something beautiful and random about that.
First of all, Gouache is a bitch. :P It is nota friendly media and you go from lovely to mud in 10 seconds flat. Don't even try and beat yourself up for that.. the true masters of it were those illio guys in the early part of the 20th century who could just blast it out. Or Alex Ross. Remember that they did not use a lot of layers but just sorta splashed color around mixed off the board. The chalky effect is really nice, but I think most people use acrylic or oil if they can stand it. :> So, you did amazingly well for a medium that sucks to work with anyways.
That being said, I think there is a certain measure of traditional art that makes one be sorta Zen with the unexpected. I learned this lesson when I was casting bronze... you don't have a lot of revision there if things cast funny. You make the best of it and move on. I find that digital slows me down terribly because I *do* have the ability to undo, so I tend to worry bits and pieces when it would probably have been fine if I had been watercoloring. I think letting go and letting the art do what it wants is a hard thing sometimes, but much like trying to train a cat, it will do what it wants anyways. :) And there's something beautiful and random about that.
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