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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
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