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diff --git a/site/posts/5-better-art.md b/site/posts/5-better-art.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..346ce3e --- /dev/null +++ b/site/posts/5-better-art.md @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ + + title: "Better Art" + permalink: '5-better-art' + date: {m: 4, d: 20, y: 2017} + thumbnail: 'static/media/05-character.png' + presentArt: true + categories: + - 'art' + - 'text' + +--- + +# Better Art + + + +I drew this character earlier. They're not really of a specific species, nor do +they have a story (or name..), but it's an interesting art piece (to me) for +several reasons.. + +* **It's the first drawing I made using a sketch.** That said, I'm not entirely + sure what counts as a sketch, but I *think* [this][sketch] does? I drew the + sketch using a single basic wet brush at a fixed size, then later (the next + day) drew over (a transparent version of) it with more detail and such. + +* **The body proportions make (more) sense.** I've drawn very few full-body + humanoids, but the general body size seems to be a bit better on this. Maybe + their head is a bit big..? But I think I found that making the head much + smaller just didn't look as good. + +* **It's a relatively detailed drawing.** I tried a few things with this + picture that mostly worked well, I think. Most obvious is the neck fur, + which I definitely *didn't* steal from probably every drawing of this type + of creature, ever. Their head also looks pretty fluffy, which is definitely + what I was going for. There's also some subtle details I probably could have + made a bit more visible - some lighting experimentation, inner-ear coloring, + and the whole shadow-above-nose effect. + +So it's a better piece than most of my previous stuff. Progress feels good? +(Then again, I still don't really do *enough* practice! This was the first +picture I'd drawn in just over a week.) + +I also worked a little bit on the story idea I [had][story]. I wrote out a bit +of plot for a new character (no, this isn't a picture of her). I'm kind of +wondering how many tropes or clichés it's fitting in to, though? That's +probably something every writer gets at some point, but I'm going to try not to +let it get too much in the way of me writing. Practice makes perfect, so I +can't really let myself get discouraged by focusing too much on all the common +story issues I'm falling into! + + [sketch]: static/media/05-sketch.png + [story]: posts/4-wrote-a-thing.html |