Study TudorxRose by ~SamhainStar
Another practice to ease out of my crippling art block thing lol Its starting to come back a bit now. I probably should have worked some more contrast into the right side.
It has more of a poofy feel than the original photo XD I was trying to work some red into the shadows a bit to make the green stand out.
Even when I try new techniques for trees and stuff I always find myself relying on doing dots like I did in school the first time I saw some impressionism. A girl’s got to learn to shake it up at some point lol
Study Yellow Rose by ~SamhainStar
Well, the last few weeks have been pretty horrific art wise. I don’t think words could properly express lol
It wasn’t even really a case of art block, it’s like I’ve had no life in me lately. I tried relaxing, doing doodles, forcing myself to draw and none of it was working.
I’m happy in the sense that the study evoked the level of concentration I’ve been dying for lately, but I know its not a great observation from the original photo. I won’t be too hard on myself, right now I’m really just glad I did anything at all lol
I hope tomorrow will be better, cause being like a lifeless zombie lately has been hell. I had already got permission from my doctor to up my meds so decided to go ahead and do that.
a haiku about tablet pens
where the fuck are you
you were just sitting right here
jesus not again
I spent the morning un-following a bunch of very talented people on Tumblr.
That feels like a really weird thing to say. And it is.
It was nearly a dozen different artists in all, and they were all extremely talented. Part of what moved me to Follow them in the first place was their skill. In…
I agree with this so much. I watch many different people of varying skill level and focus, but the defining thread is that they produce original work and have original stories in their heads. I like young artists a lot for this reason; sometimes the stories aren’t the best but the feeling and brain power behind them is there.
Fanartists can do incredible work too, but as a consumer of art it’s as significant as the difference between eating a meal and eating someone else’s vomit.
I have a huge problem with this.
How do you know they aren’t doing their own work? Believe it or not, about 40% of what I draw is my own original stuff. And only about 10% of that makes it onto my online accounts. Why? Because I’m constantly changing and improving things. Because maybe I feel like I want it to be the very best it can be before I show it to the world. It’s a lot less nerve-wracking to showcase fanart even if you just did it for the sake of practice. And even then….what’s wrong with using your fanart to improve? You can learn a LOT from drawing fanart, then when you’re ready, you can start doing your own things. This elitist “I draw my own things, therefor I’m a better artist” idea is bullshit.
The fact that you’re doing your own original work and not posting it is fair, but isn’t it also fair that I don’t know that? Am I supposed to assume that every person that I watch who posts nothing but fanart is someone with deep amazing story ideas and I should just wade through the stuff I hate to get to it a few years from now when they get around to showing it off?
Nor did I say that one shouldn’t draw fanart to improve. Lots of people do. I did. I drew a fuckton of AtLA fanart back when the show was going, and I learned most of the basics of dynamic drawing in the process. What I didn’t do after that was continue to draw fanart constantly to the exclusion of developing my own work.
I don’t think I’m being elitist. I’m not saying that fanart is bad. I love drawing fanart for things that inspire me (I just posted one a few days ago in fact). But, as I said pretty clearly, as a consumer of the art of others, constant unceasing fanart doesn’t inspire me to anything but annoyance. All my favorite artists draw fanart from time to time, but they also all have incredible worlds in their heads that I never want to stop hearing about.
Last, if you’re reading some kind of personal insult into it, then that might be your own guilt speaking. If you want people to recognize you for your original work, then perhaps you should stop worrying about what I do and keep pushing to make that happen.
I know this is going to be unpopular opinion central, but this is one of the big things that wears me down with MGDMT. It’s a pop culture gag comic and I try my hardest to keep things satirical (as opposed to just “hey it’s that character you recognize, pat me on the back now”) and I try to avoid gags that have been done to death (Or at least try to do them in my own way), but this venture into pop-culture-gag-comic-storyline just feels a lot like “Oh, so now I spend twelve hours a week working on fanfiction.”
Whenever I talk to other artists I admire it’s almost embarrassing to be like “Yeah…. I have a… uh… video game webcomic…”
I know the obvious answer is “stop making MGDMT and just work on original stuff” but I am, I’m trying to force myself to write a chapter a week on top of all the other crap I have going on. MGDMT may take away from the time I have for that, but at least it forces me to keep drawing (and finishing something) outside of work.
In the meantime I almost feel guilty about posting disconnected drawings of these characters around, because I feel like I’m forcing them on people without giving them any context or reason to care about them.
At least 55% of what makes MMDMT awesome is the injection of her own characters into the world of gaming. I don’t think you could subtract Commander Badass or Jared out of it any more (for example, his relation with mr fish!), but this comic would be much less bright without them.
Still waiting on that Serious Bisons shirt she said she was going to make!
Updates :D
So I’m working on this watercolour - its been a very long time since I did (well except this one bookmark however long ago that was). It’s not amazeballs but its not bad considering, but I still have a figure to paint and I will be VERY VERY MAD if I mess it up.
Anyway even if it was, guaranteed my scanner will do a great job of uglying it up.
Best family ever. #sailormoon #serina #darium #sailorminimoon #sailorchibi #anime #family (Taken with instagram)
lolz Beautiful and unrealistic. Chibiusa’s feet would be in sailor moon’s face and she would only have the tiniest edge of the bed left. I’m sure families with cats have their own parent torture rituals too lol He’d prolly be the one left without any covers lol
Design 2 by ~SamhainStar
I suppose I should resubmit for AWA now? I dunno : / lol
Cute Style Design1 by ~SamhainStar
I know it looks pretty plain, but that’s because of the rest of the design is pretty busy and I don’t want to over load it. Although I put a really faint pink in the back I may leave it white when I go to print it.
Was waiting for hubby to come home so I messed around with Photoshop. Like an hour and a half, the anatomy is horrid but I’m going through a really dry spell at the moment. I thought when I got my drivers permit and was free and happy the ideas (and right now more, more importantly) the motivation would just flow.
Not so lol
Honestly its so bad, I’m not even expecting my rare foray into Michaels to help. I have no idea what’s up. Also being sick sucks. Am really friggin’ tired lol
Doh :(
Spend ages playing, testing out new art program.
Play doodle that just had like 2 hours put into it finally starts to look half decent.
Program crashes.
Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!! O:
