Going back to basics...I'm taking a digital art break.
What. Craziness.
This doesn't mean a total *art* break, however! I still intend to keep drawing. The thing is...
1) I'm working on a netbook, for Mickey's sake. It has a 10 inch screen - my tablet is *bigger*. It's a good one, not one of your tiny-hard-drive jobs, it'll run Photoshop (well, GIMP) just fine... but it starts to creak when filters or Painter are involved, and the screen is Just Not Big Enough to do detailed work as I'd like. Suffice it to say, until I get the iMac I've been saving up for (<3), I do not have the computer to do what I'd like to.
2) I need to get back into practice with traditional tools. What I've done lately? Has proved that since the old days... I've lost touch. I need to learn new things again. Or old things. You know.
3) Learning new traditional techniques might teach me new things for use in digital.
4) Damn it, I *do* actually like hands-on work!
There's a whole different feel to it than digital. I just tend to be more confident about my 'shop work... but I miss painting, miss ink drawing, pastels and clay and just everything... So there you go. Unfortunately, this means that I'm going to have to put the keyblade tutorial on hold, but let's see if I can paint a couple of the things instead.
I'm likely to still do stuff like last-minute touchups/colour tweaks and image compilations on the computer, but I'm going to try and stretch myself. ...I have no idea how long this'll last, though, given my natural slacker nature.
Let's set a target: end of July. See how much traditional art I can do by then.
... I think I've just bitten off more than I can chew, but what the hell! I'm in a good mood!
Eager
All your art is goodm in fact, but those keyblades! Wow!
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Even before seeing yours, I've been trying to draw one of my own. (Oh the joys! Tattered sketch pages galore!) Trying to base one off Atlas Shrugged/Objectivism, with no luck. Any tips?
Oh, and another quicky: saw something about a request season in your blog. When's that, if it's not too much of a bother to ask?
Atlas Shrugged... I'm really not familiar with all that business, I'm afraid, so I can't really give many tips. That seems quite an abstract thing to try and do a 'blade on ... good luck with it, though. Are there any visual themes that come up in the book? Any symbols?
And on the requests - damn. Sorry, but it's not going to be for a while, at least. I'm not sure when I'm taking the next lot at all... There will be a journal entry when I do, though.
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You haven't read it? You really should, it's really good. But, as for the art mentioned in it: A large part of the story is focused on the bluish green alloy one of the character's invented called Rearden Metal, and there's a lot of mention of the sign of the dollar in the book. I'm figuring the sign of the dollar could be the keychain, or maybe the letter A (for the phrase A is A). As for the keyblade's actual design, I'm thinking something modern. Nothing too frilly or elegant, but something that's to the point. Kind of like your UNSC keyblade in the sense that it doesn't have anything that would make it less than what it is: a Keyblade.
No requests for a while? That's okay, I understand. I'm going to be watching ike a hawk for that blog entry though.
*hee* Fair enough. Can't promise anything as far as when it'll show up goes, though.
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