Friday, November 20, 2015

Bizarre Friday Post (and News about Future Updates)

Hi! It's our first anniversary Sunday, so we'll be gone this weekend. I thought I'd get these things uploaded before we head out this afternoon.

Here's a work in progress guy based on a sketch I did. I was going to show the sketch to you, too, but it's pretty ugly.


A western bandit, a pig man, a guy with an armored arm, a guy with two pistols, and a robot guy about to do some gongfu (also, according to the definition in that link, gongfu is "...any study, learning, or practice that requires patience, energy, and time to complete..." meaning that I, as an artist, am a practitioner of gongfu).


Here we have a crazy guy with a sword, a spaceman, a small guy with a sword, and an evil demon creature. He's upset.


This last one I kept mainly for the hand in the bottom right hand corner. I think it turned out super spiffy!


Okay, on to the news.
When I first started this blog, I posted every day. Then, I realized I didn't have to post everything I did and only started posting the sketches I like. I've kinda stuck to that mindset for a while with various degrees of post frequency.
I had a chat with a friend yesterday and we chatted about art and stuff. During the course of our conversation I realized how much time I was spending preparing sketches to be uploaded. I'd say these took me like 3-4[?] hours to get all scanned, cut out, placed, and selected. Sometimes it takes longer. That's a lot of time to spend on a sketch! 
I think that to learn what I need to I need to start pushing pieces further, and so I'll be taking one sketch at a time and working with that, spending the time I'd previously have spent preparing sketches to take it to a finished state. I love updating the blog, but I'd like to have some really professional stuff to show.
So I'll be taking on one thing at a time and really nailing it before moving on to the next one. As I finish things, I'll upload and do a post. Once I have a larger body of (finished) work, I may go back to posting sketches like I've been doing for the last couple years. 

So there ya go! I'm off for the weekend. Hopefully I'll be posting again soon! Between the colored work in progress at the top of this post and the weird fish man from the last post, I have a couple things that should be getting finished.

Thanks for stopping by!

2 comments:

  1. I love this new art/blog plan of yours, I'm completely behind you on it. I think you'll make tremendous progress that way.

    I think the guy in the first picture is cool! I like his colors and his pose. But his right leg (our left) is a bit wonky. I don't get what's happening.

    We're going to plaaaaaaaay all weekend!

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    1. Yeah, you're definitely right about that leg. His foot is kinda twisted. I'll look into that when I open it back up.

      And yes! To play! We're going to play "How many entrees is too many?" My favorite game.

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