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tenshinoakuma) wrote2011-03-04 12:34 am
tenshinoakuma) wrote2011-03-04 12:34 am
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Art blah blah blah
Urgh working on this picture feels a lot like banging my head against a wall. It's not very often I work with colours (or hell, any kind of shading at all, not counting crosshatching), so to spontaneously decide to colour a picture without any thought for composition is very difficult.
I think it's especially difficult for me because I spent a lot of time developing lineart, and recently, in the rare occasions I do colour, I paint, i.e. minimal (guide)lines, often backgrounds/flowers, not nearly as detailed as my lines. Since the styles of lines vs painting have been developed separately, it's been very difficult to get them to intersect in any kind of cohesive manner. It doesn't help that my lines these days tend to be bold and well defined, while in painting, I prefer to leave things a little more implied. Obviously, the repeated failures to make the two work together have been getting pretty frustrating.
This isn't even getting into colours and how I know the basics of how they work but me never being able to get a united style/mood across a whole picture (usually). I think it worked out once when I did everything on one layer (art rage pictures), but it had an uncomplex background (background being the usual reason for colouring on more than 1 layer now). And even then, some colours turned out not optimal.
I DUNNO maybe I should start doing some speed painting (with linework)? I notice I run into the CANNOT COLOUR issue more readily when I'm drawing people. I don't run into this problem nearly as much when doing flowers.
I think it's especially difficult for me because I spent a lot of time developing lineart, and recently, in the rare occasions I do colour, I paint, i.e. minimal (guide)lines, often backgrounds/flowers, not nearly as detailed as my lines. Since the styles of lines vs painting have been developed separately, it's been very difficult to get them to intersect in any kind of cohesive manner. It doesn't help that my lines these days tend to be bold and well defined, while in painting, I prefer to leave things a little more implied. Obviously, the repeated failures to make the two work together have been getting pretty frustrating.
This isn't even getting into colours and how I know the basics of how they work but me never being able to get a united style/mood across a whole picture (usually). I think it worked out once when I did everything on one layer (art rage pictures), but it had an uncomplex background (background being the usual reason for colouring on more than 1 layer now). And even then, some colours turned out not optimal.
I DUNNO maybe I should start doing some speed painting (with linework)? I notice I run into the CANNOT COLOUR issue more readily when I'm drawing people. I don't run into this problem nearly as much when doing flowers.