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Asshole.
Liz is such an instigator.
Also first traditional House Cats comic in a while.
Liz is such an instigator.
Also first traditional House Cats comic in a while.
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Well there's always room for improvement and I think a level of humility is the first step to growing as an artist, to step back and look at what you're making and say "God this sucks.", something so many "artists" on the internet seem to lack (from my experience anyway).
For me, I don't think I am bad but I need someone to tell me what's wrong and how to improve and sadly I don't get that because we live in a safe space, trigger free culture, which is why so much media is pretty mediocre these days and if you dare to criticize something it's because you have a hatred towards a repressed group of people. I don't know, bit of venting.
For me, I don't think I am bad but I need someone to tell me what's wrong and how to improve and sadly I don't get that because we live in a safe space, trigger free culture, which is why so much media is pretty mediocre these days and if you dare to criticize something it's because you have a hatred towards a repressed group of people. I don't know, bit of venting.
I suppose there is that. I don't think I'm that bad either, but without much input to go off of and still being a "small" account, I can only theorize what I'm lacking in and try to improve on that. I feel like it's inefficient though.
With modern media and culture plagued with those problems people will never learn to seperate things in their minds. Which is a really sad thing, because there's always at least more than one side to every thing that there is. Which includes criticism. It doesn't always come from a place of hatred.
Even though sometimes when I do criticize things I feel REALLY STRONGLY about it, though that's usually as a result of what topic I'm dealing with.
So I'm going to give a free coin towards that: Personally I don't see any real issues with the way you do art. The lineart's fine, you do some pretty good anatomy for the most part, (though that comes from someone who has not got much experience with anatomy so take that with a can of salt,) The only thing I can really think of is that the backgrounds are a bit lacking. That's really about all I can say without trying too hard to pick it apart. It's easy to go from realistic to cartoony, but hard to go the other way.
With modern media and culture plagued with those problems people will never learn to seperate things in their minds. Which is a really sad thing, because there's always at least more than one side to every thing that there is. Which includes criticism. It doesn't always come from a place of hatred.
Even though sometimes when I do criticize things I feel REALLY STRONGLY about it, though that's usually as a result of what topic I'm dealing with.
So I'm going to give a free coin towards that: Personally I don't see any real issues with the way you do art. The lineart's fine, you do some pretty good anatomy for the most part, (though that comes from someone who has not got much experience with anatomy so take that with a can of salt,) The only thing I can really think of is that the backgrounds are a bit lacking. That's really about all I can say without trying too hard to pick it apart. It's easy to go from realistic to cartoony, but hard to go the other way.
The thing about backgrounds though, and this always gets me, spool around the internet for a bit and you'll find some art that features characters with no background or the background is just a random color or a shape with one color in it, I don't see why that's accepted but a colorless background isn't unless it's filled with stuff, I find it so weird.
Looking at your work though my only thought is can you do that on paper? Can you do that with your hands and not on a computer? Personal biased incoming but I believe traditional is the ultimate art form, because digital takes away from the actual art of creating, now digital has it's perks, I think digital is great for commercial graphic design and video aesthetics, visual cards in general but my beef with digital is that there is no discipline when it comes to digital media, you mess up a line you can tweak it, drew something on the wrong side you can copy it and flip it, drew something at this angle when you want it at that angle just rotate it, didn't like what you drew period just hit Ctrl+N, instead of taking the risk of wasting paper or materials. I know not everything is going to be a masterpiece or that it needs to be but that level of discipline can go a long way.
Looking at your work though my only thought is can you do that on paper? Can you do that with your hands and not on a computer? Personal biased incoming but I believe traditional is the ultimate art form, because digital takes away from the actual art of creating, now digital has it's perks, I think digital is great for commercial graphic design and video aesthetics, visual cards in general but my beef with digital is that there is no discipline when it comes to digital media, you mess up a line you can tweak it, drew something on the wrong side you can copy it and flip it, drew something at this angle when you want it at that angle just rotate it, didn't like what you drew period just hit Ctrl+N, instead of taking the risk of wasting paper or materials. I know not everything is going to be a masterpiece or that it needs to be but that level of discipline can go a long way.
I suppose that does make a good argument. I won't criticize backgrounds in that case, since it is too a weak point of mine, or so I felt.
Oh dear. Yeah I haven't worked with traditional art that much. I do want to experiment more with it though.
The funny thing is I've heard many a person ask where the undo button is, when it comes to traditional art. That's what makes it tricky: If you make a mistake, tough crap. Do it all over again on a new piece of paper or stick with it until the end.
I have drawn some traditional art before I moved to digital but I've always felt it wasn't that great. But now that I've honed my skills in digital, I should return to it and see what happens. Thanks for that advice.
Oh dear. Yeah I haven't worked with traditional art that much. I do want to experiment more with it though.
The funny thing is I've heard many a person ask where the undo button is, when it comes to traditional art. That's what makes it tricky: If you make a mistake, tough crap. Do it all over again on a new piece of paper or stick with it until the end.
I have drawn some traditional art before I moved to digital but I've always felt it wasn't that great. But now that I've honed my skills in digital, I should return to it and see what happens. Thanks for that advice.
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