u rly should upload more thanks

You first!

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HEY the lighting does a lot for depth here, I like the soft and hard edged blending, I find that balance is so important to readability. And a reserved palette, very nice.

So many ideas, I know how you feel. I get frustrated by my unwillingness to REALLY polish and finish a lot of things, but in reality, I have been in a period of pretty rapid artistic growth(I think you are too). I've read and listened to art educators and veterans discussing the concept that, at these points of growth, ideas and exploration are of higher priority than working yourself to death finalizing pieces.

I can see the logic there, because in my case, i've tried several times to "save" a poorly structured idea with rendering, or with affectations, or visual FX, when what I was doing was just covering for the fundamental flaws. In the end, its just a tremendous amount of time spinning my wheels and I end up hating the piece anyway.

There are other schools of thought, some people believe starting and finishing small, manageable projects is more important than broad ideation. I suppose its all relative to your goals, personality and affinity with the medium.

Sorry, babble babble... I just think about this stuff all the time.

I agree. Personally I think the one big thing keeping me from finishing anything EVER is the fact that I rush myself. I don't sketch for long enough or I get to detail oriented way to quickly. As soon as I like it I want to call it finished and start something else, sometimes I'm afraid to work on it more because I don't want to "mess it up" or something like that... Being part of an artist community I feel more or less obligated to make something "good" to show people because attention and then maybe, just maybe, people would want to pay me for it. At the same time I'm afraid of people and the more attention you get the more weirdos start trying to talk to you and be your friend not because they like YOU but because they want ART.

Sometimes I think I should take a break from the internet but then I wake up and realize that I'm terribly addicted to it and there isn't really a way to cut the cord XD That and I would miss communicating with people who are actually interested in sharing the journey to becoming better artists. I only know like one person in real life who draws and we hardly ever have time to critique let alone learn anything from each other so yeah.

I agree. We are both improving and the path towards it will be paved with many an unfinished painting along the way. But in the end. Watch out world.
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fucking love this. seeing your sketches is always so nice, I like that your concepts are so well thought out, even though your characters sometimes look soft and fuzzy or spooky in a still lovable way, they almost always have a deeper, more subtle underside. Not necessarily evil or anything that....idk, that's too simple for what it is.

Watching your world develop from the glimpses these wips provide is so amazing to me. I always want to know more.

Sometimes I like my sketches more than the finished product. I would post more of them here and on DA but I don't know. I sort of turn in circles about everything I do and end up finishing hardly anything. Is it good enough or should I keep going? Am I over working this? Should I scrap it and start over? Bla bla bla, derp derp derp.

I read something that said with every image you create you should try and tell a story. It's really cool that my work entices you to learn more because honestly a lot more goes into my development than I ever feel motivated enough to explain c:

Ok gotta squeal to you about this. This is so very incredible! I love what you said about darkness not judging you like light does, it makes perfect sense and has been a concept I have used in the relationships between some of my characters and myself.That said, back to YOU! This character is beautiful. She/he is beautiful, frightening, intriguing, appalling all at once. You can't help but stare and look closely to see the intricacies of his/her design. My favorite part has to be the chest and torso. You did a wonderful job portraying the ribcage, the sternum and the collar bones. Being a nurse I can really appreciate the details put into anatomy and structure (even if I struggle with it myself in my own art :P ) The face with those bloody empty eyes draws the viewer in immediately… and is the mouth stitched shut? I think it looks that way. Regardless the face in itself is enough to give you an idea of what this character represents. The rest of the body is wonderful, I'm a huge fan of lanky monstery like characters. I love the clawed hands and feet, and damn those legs are just so amazingly done! And now don't get me started on the floof and the hair! Dude you fucking rock at drawing/shading hair and those fluffy ears and tail. For serious. All your coloring is amazing but that especially drew me in. Ok I'll shut up now. This piece is incredible, and you should be super proud of it. And it's still a WIP? PFFT this picture is so incredible as it is, but I understand wanting to do more to an image. So yeah. This rocks.

Wow where do I begin, firstly and forever Thank You!!! Thank you for even looking at it at all. I am in shock really, very happy you like this piece. I don't know what I was doing exactly because anatomy confuses and terrifies me but I'm very happy to hear it looks accurate! Your amazing comment is empowering. I have been in such a rut for so long, it really feels so super good to get this sort of response, especially on an older piece. It is crazy that you could pick up the mouth stitches even on this quality submission... FA always messed with my resolution and things end up more fuzzy than they should be. Hair has long been an obsession, very glad you like it and all the floofypoof cuz those are my favorite things besides horns to illustrate. I believe that this piece was the first one where I decided to play with complimentary colors, since then I never really looked back. X3

Seriously from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much. Your comment brightened my entire life.