Started this one very early on in the year but finally finished it.
Not super great, but I was way out of practice. Still somethings better than nothing aye? Besides, who could hate Mercy with big anime shades?? :D
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Mercy Me
Started this one very early on in the year but finally finished it.
Not super great, but I was way out of practice. Still somethings better than nothing aye? Besides, who could hate Mercy with big anime shades?? :D
Mental Game? The Value? 2017?
It's hard to really say where the time went or where I really went. The entire mental game to this whole thing is much deeper than I think I ever thought it was when I started this blog. I think I've spent a lot of time in my head trying to rearrange these boxes to get this whole thing figured out. It's been such a struggle to put a lot of what I went through/am going through into words. But I suppose this entire blog is a testament that I can do it.
I think one of my biggest takeaways from my time spent in my head is finding the value in my own work. Being able to really understand the impact I CAN make on people. The positive impact I can make on peoples. I think it's important to differentiate the "Can make" from the expectation of that outcome. I found that working in absolutes will lead to disappointments. Living with hard expectations will lead to disappointments. It's better to live knowing I put my best foot forward. To find happiness in the effort rather than the outcome. Like my buddy Mokuu told me "Fall in love with the process - focus on the fun and the story. Quality gets better as you go" ... I suppose the context is a bit different but the same idea applies. Focus on the process. Fall in love with the process. Everything will fall into line.
However, it can be so hard to use this line of thought when dealing with people you really care about. The time, energy, and patience put into helping. It's hard to not want to see that happy outcome for them. It's hard to not want them to share your successes. But it's simply not practical to put your life on hold to fix others problems. That's not to say that you shouldn't try... But it's all about perspective. It's all about how you look at the situation. Put your best foot forward, hope for the best, then if it doesn't play out... continue to put my best foot forward. The reward is that you even helped to begin with.
Maybe I'm speaking outside of the scope of this blog. But there is a lesson to be learned. It's a hard one that I'm still learning my self.
The entire concept of helping others by helping myself. It feels so wrong. But the more I learn about it, the more it's explained to me, it just makes so much sense.
And there's a lot of areas where I feel similar to that. Not confused persay, but... very jarred. Going from believing one thing, to having "reality" show me it wasnt possible. NOW hearing great people I highly admire tell me that I was on the right path to begin with. It's very jarring. I cant think of a better word other than jarring. But I think it's a good kind of jarring. Somewhere along the way I'd fallen off the track, but now I've fallen back on track. It's like unlearning what I learned then relearning what I originally knew.
It's some wild stuff.
But I just want to get this blog back up. I'm on a good path. I have been on a good path!
This was a pretty bloated blog post. But I feel I've only scratched the surface of what I've learned in my time away. But right now, to be honest. I just want to post art again. Which I haven't felt in a while.
Thank you everyone for being so supportive during this whole journey. The details will come in time!
♥
I think one of my biggest takeaways from my time spent in my head is finding the value in my own work. Being able to really understand the impact I CAN make on people. The positive impact I can make on peoples. I think it's important to differentiate the "Can make" from the expectation of that outcome. I found that working in absolutes will lead to disappointments. Living with hard expectations will lead to disappointments. It's better to live knowing I put my best foot forward. To find happiness in the effort rather than the outcome. Like my buddy Mokuu told me "Fall in love with the process - focus on the fun and the story. Quality gets better as you go" ... I suppose the context is a bit different but the same idea applies. Focus on the process. Fall in love with the process. Everything will fall into line.
However, it can be so hard to use this line of thought when dealing with people you really care about. The time, energy, and patience put into helping. It's hard to not want to see that happy outcome for them. It's hard to not want them to share your successes. But it's simply not practical to put your life on hold to fix others problems. That's not to say that you shouldn't try... But it's all about perspective. It's all about how you look at the situation. Put your best foot forward, hope for the best, then if it doesn't play out... continue to put my best foot forward. The reward is that you even helped to begin with.
Maybe I'm speaking outside of the scope of this blog. But there is a lesson to be learned. It's a hard one that I'm still learning my self.
The entire concept of helping others by helping myself. It feels so wrong. But the more I learn about it, the more it's explained to me, it just makes so much sense.
And there's a lot of areas where I feel similar to that. Not confused persay, but... very jarred. Going from believing one thing, to having "reality" show me it wasnt possible. NOW hearing great people I highly admire tell me that I was on the right path to begin with. It's very jarring. I cant think of a better word other than jarring. But I think it's a good kind of jarring. Somewhere along the way I'd fallen off the track, but now I've fallen back on track. It's like unlearning what I learned then relearning what I originally knew.
It's some wild stuff.
But I just want to get this blog back up. I'm on a good path. I have been on a good path!
This was a pretty bloated blog post. But I feel I've only scratched the surface of what I've learned in my time away. But right now, to be honest. I just want to post art again. Which I haven't felt in a while.
Thank you everyone for being so supportive during this whole journey. The details will come in time!
♥
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Art Trade Abbey Pokemon Trainer!!
Finished this art trade a while back
She's Abbey from Monster High as a pokemon trainer! We talked about this trade ages ago (just over a year ago actually xD) and I just finaly got to it. Lots of things happened that year. But it's always better late than never :3
She's Abbey from Monster High as a pokemon trainer! We talked about this trade ages ago (just over a year ago actually xD) and I just finaly got to it. Lots of things happened that year. But it's always better late than never :3
Sunday, April 2, 2017
Skull Girls - Big Band
Just finished Cerebellum but really wanted to do one more... but i wanted something a bit silly so.... Big Band! Big Band giving a thumbs up!
As a silly nice wind down piece I think it turned out ok. I didn't worry too much on this one.
Line Art:
Original Sketch:
And for silly kicks and giggles, here's the color layer. Kinda liked how it turned out haha.
♥
Line Art:
Original Sketch:
And for silly kicks and giggles, here's the color layer. Kinda liked how it turned out haha.
Saturday, April 1, 2017
Skull Girls - Cerebellum
I LOVE THE SKULL GIRLS ART STYLE
I've followed the lead artist for years and have always been a huge fan of it. I noticed that i find myself being drawn more towards more simple art styles. So I figured why not draw one of the characters!?
Had a lot of mixed feelings when making this one. Well into coloring it I just felt that it didn't look right. I was missing something of the style and just felt pretty bad as I slowly finished it off. I took a moment to really look at it and noticed the proportions were all off. It's a strange mix of skull girls and more realistic proportions. and the face just looked bad. I think I was able to salvage some of the face but in the end ehhh.. I think the piece turned out ok. I'm just glad I did something. I'm also thinking that maybe the resolution that I draw on might be a bit to low. I'm not the best with the technical aspect of drawing, but I think that is something that I will need to work out at some time.
Anyway, here's the line work:
And the original sketch:
After I completed the piece, I took a moment to try a new sketch to "fix" the proportions and to really capture that style a bit better than completely missing the mark.
I think it turned out so much better than before!! And all it took was an extra few moments to sort out the sketch. To be fair though, style was probably the last thing on my mind when I was doing the original sketch so i cant be to hard on myself. But hey. Ya live and learn!
I've followed the lead artist for years and have always been a huge fan of it. I noticed that i find myself being drawn more towards more simple art styles. So I figured why not draw one of the characters!?
Anyway, here's the line work:
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
SAMURAI JAAAAAAAACK
Guess what I'm still geeking out over.
Here's a hint. it's in the title.. xD
Rather pleased with how this one turned out. Had a bit of trouble trying to make him look like samurai jack. I noticed that with trying to recreate any style in general. hmm... I need to work on this.
Here's the line work:
Then the sketch:
You can see in the original sketch that he didnt look much like samurai jack at the start. I managed to fool around with it enough when doing the lines to at least help a little. Still, more studies need to be done. Especially with cloth/ proportions/ styles/ etc etc etc! MORE TRAINING!
Here's a hint. it's in the title.. xD
Here's the line work:
You can see in the original sketch that he didnt look much like samurai jack at the start. I managed to fool around with it enough when doing the lines to at least help a little. Still, more studies need to be done. Especially with cloth/ proportions/ styles/ etc etc etc! MORE TRAINING!
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