Saturday, March 26, 2005

   patience? me?
I was going to rant about how I can't draw fan art too well because it never looks like the person, like my recent attempt at Yohji, but I saw the comment from joe2587 and had to comment because I know so many people who would laugh at you for putting me and patience in the same sentence.

It's true that I nitpick my drawings a lot. I'm just never satisfied with the end result...and I'm like that with EVERYTHING. I drive my best friend nuts I think. haha!

Seriously though, if I was patient, when I decided to try to start drawing, I would take my time and expect that I would be that good at first. As it is, I picked up a pencil to go at it for the first time about four or five months ago, and now I own something like ten or more books on art and I buy a new one almost every time I go to the bookstore. It's sick, I tell you, sick! But I still feel like, 'this isn't good enough' or, 'I want to be a lot better than this'. And I DO throw out a lot of my drawings too, usually before I've even really got them started. I have such issues with anatomy! *cries* I read and read and read, and then there's drawing and drawing and drawing some more, but I still can't get it quite right and that irritates me to no end! Lol. Maybe I should get a skeleton model so I can get to know the body really well, or something, but I'm not sure even that would make me learn it fast enough to satisfy me. So when I read that I seem patient, it made me laugh, because actually it's quite the opposite. I just become all consumed with something until I can't think about anything else and it takes over my brain until I'm satisfied is all. This can't be healthy! But I still want to keep pushing forward and become much better at this whole "art" thing.
Patient. Hehe, that made my morning, but thanks for saying so anyway!
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Tuesday, March 22, 2005

   Chic 2
Well, it seems my latest project is drawing "Sexy Anime Girls". Heh. Who'd have ever thought a female would be asked to do that sort of thing. Lol. I guess it can't be helped. I can't seem to draw guys that look male anyway.

Yesterday I drew my first attempt at it, "Chic"...and decided I hated it. The foot was too flat and the line of the back was weird...if a person actually had a spine like that...well, ow!
So today I ended up redrawing it. I kept the face the same, or so I thought, but the first one had this sort of elegant, "are you looking at me?" expression on, and in the revamp it looks more like "I have a sword and I know how to use it." The hair also seems a little more wild. I wonder why. I think I used a thicker outline, or something. All in all though, I think this one is better. It doesn't look like she has a broken spine and a crushed foot, though I'm still unsure about the right foot...I think it's correct, but that angle is throwing me off. Hmm... Her left arm still seems odd though, too thin, or something.

Well, I suppose it works though, for the most part. If I keep picking it apart I'll be redrawing the same picture for the next ten years. I hope the next one leaves me feeling more satisfied though.
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