Here and there as of late I’ve been letting folks know that I was soon going to be “coming back” in terms of drawing, and I’m happy to announce that time has finally come. Skipping over some details that need not be shared quite so publicly, and thanks to a good bit of foresight on my part, I have been able to quit my job, and will be able to spend the next few months growing bored with sitting on my ass. At some point, probably about a week, if even that long, I’ll turn once again to fending off this boredom by scribbling out all the fap material that everyone seems to have come to enjoy.
It’ll be just like old times, but without any of the latent teenage angst :D
As anyone that has contacted me in the past is aware, I’m not very good at being social. I never realized that I was actually having a genuine problem of any kind until recently when a good friend pointed out the fact that I was vastly more withdrawn than usual, which was already pretty deep. He made me sit and have a proper conversation, during which I finally saw how bad it had gotten.
This is something that I want to change, and will do my best to work on as time goes by.
I appreciate the thought, but I do not. There are, however, numerous artists on Patreon who do, and would be far more appreciative of them than I.
I no longer take either commissions, nor direct requests.
Indeed there will be more, though not necessarily of that same variety. Character drawings, concept art of the locations, stuff like that to help flesh out the world a bit better are on the way– well, they will be anyway, once I actually sit down and put everything into text, so there’s actually a world to flesh out.
It’s always kind of funny, and sometimes a little depressing, while browsing newly posted artwork across the internet. Every once in a while, someone will send me a note, or an email, with an idea about a commission. Then sometime later, be it days, or maybe a week or two, I’ll see an image by someone else matching the idea that’d been sent to me. I just find it interesting to sit back and say “That could have been one of mine”. I take a few moments to really analyze the piece, and more often than not, I can happily say that it worked out for the better in the end.
Time, that’s all. A good pop requires at least a two-part image sequence, and a great pop requires far more buildup. I do intend to knock out more popping sequences eventually, but at the moment these little sketches are all that I’ve got time for.
Rarely, and never directly (i.e. listening to ‘Pump it Up’ has never made me want to draw inflation, whereas the Digitalism Remix of 'Technologic’ has). The type of music that I listen to while working on a drawing does, however, greatly influence the tone of the piece.
I realized one the way home that people don’t necessarily mean to be creepy, it just sort of happens.
For example:
I was walking home from work tonight, as a storm was forecast to roll in so I hadn’t ridden my bike as usual (easier to hold an umbrella while walking). A good portion of the walk is through commercial areas, and through the town football field, or at least its ‘parking lot’. Seeing as I’d had an hours walk ahead of me, I set my tablet to play some Dr. Steel from my bag as I went on my way.
That’s when it hit me.
I was walking through a moonlit parking lot, still in my black work clothes, a black sword shaped umbrella in hand, as storm clouds and lightning began to take over and flash overhead, and all the while 'Bogeyman Boogie’ is echoing out from my little side bag.
And all the while I’m all :D
Nope; couldn’t think of anything to play around with this year.
Who’s us?
Nope, I don’t mind at all ^.^
TL:DR - It’s gone, and it’s highly unlikely that I’ll ever add any more to it.
Indeed I’ve been drawing quite a lot, but it’s all just been fapkin art and practice sketches, nothing worth saving or posting.
Indeed I have, though I’ve since retired from doing so after more than a couple scares, and a few health issues that may be the result of having done so x_x;
Of course, though it is fairly rare, because drawing proper muscle growth up to the sizes where they would explode is a good bit more difficult than just drawing a belly getting bigger and rounder.
Finally fully finished a nice, new picture, made it all nice ‘n shiny, and posted it to FA. I rather dig how well it came out, even though I restarted the shading on it about three times… anyway, if there’s one big thing that bugs me about it, it’s that because it’s only cell shaded, there’s no reason I shouldn’t have animated it. Alright, maybe not that picture in particular, because there’s not a whole lot I could have done with it due to the pose, but for the most part, I’m always kinda’ disappointed these days after “completing” a cell shaded picture. The technique for converting an image to an animation isn’t hard, and it doesn’t even take that long, adding maybe an hour or two more to the process if it adds time at all. I’m trying to learn more realistic shading to avoid all that nonsense, but when I feel like being lazy, I revert to cell, and then I get sad.
I know a number of people at this point are probably wondering “If it’s really so easy, why isn’t that Renamon animation done yet?” and the answer is that I don’t know what to do with it. Add in breast expansion, maybe change to a full body inflation, or hourglass, should I make it manual, or just click and watch; I’m still deciding on that stuff, but that’s besides the point. The main thing is that, barring a few little non-creation related hiccups, the total work time of that animation will be barely longer than the image I’d just posted.
So what does this mean for everyone else? What’s the point of making yet another whiny ass post? Well, there isn’t one, really. I guess just take from it the knowledge that, in the future, if ever you see me post something that is just cell shaded, you can feel warm and fuzzy being 'in the know’ about the fact that I was probably just being a lazy. Also, assuming I can actually build up the willpower for it, I’m also kinda’ saying that I have every intention to begin spewing forth far more animations in the future than have ever been seen before.
At the moment, nowhere, it’s just an idea I’d had. If I do indeed decide to roll with it, I’ll probably make an announcement on FA, or just do streams, or something like that.
Another thing, unrelated to the thing I posted five minutes ago, that I’ve been thinking about. A lot of artists that I see all over the internets have the opposite issue as me, in terms of R & D. I hardly produce anything anymore, yes I’m fully aware of that fact. I spend most of my creating time trying to figure out new ways to draw things, better ways to draw it, or just learning new things altogether (as in the fact that I can actually draw human faces now, and not just animu style either). I’ve noticed, though, that a good chunk of other artists haven’t improved in any noticeable way in years: Still making the same anatomical mistakes, still shite with line weight or quality, still can’t color worth a damn, etc. The thing is, though, that they still churn out images near daily, and it pisses me off sometimes. I want to do that. I want to knock out drawing after drawing, day after day. It’s hard for me to switch gears though. It’s hard for me to look at a drawing, even if I’ve spent hours on it, and honestly say “Yes, this looks as good as I can make it.” Even if it’s true, I know I can make their face, or a specific body part look better, more realistic, if I just spent more time trying different things. That Doggy picture two posts ago? I completely redrew that exact image, same pose and everything, four times before drawing that one. Each time I changed things a little bit; the style of his head, his eyes, expression, position, body language, even changing up the size and shape of his entire figure. Despite that, though, it honestly still bugs the shit out of me. What I’ve come to at this point is that I just get fed up with trying to figure it out, and post what I’ve finished. I’m really kinda’ curious if any other artists actually go through that, or if everyone else is capable of just drawing something once and calling it good, without even a second thought about how it could look better.
Damn that became long…