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I am doodling and animating in spite of my better judgement again
🕑 Added 2024-12-18 18:13:46 +0000 UTCYeah, you can't keep Winton on task for very long, that's for sure. π I have been drawing these things on the periphery of coloring Libby & Holly-- I'm up to page 24/44 which sounds like not very far but there's some color on everything, I'm just doing final pass stuff on most of it.
I'm drawing cute stuff again with thick lines to make it easier and also revisiting character design options for that satyr character I'll need to start drawing soon π€
Check the attachment for this if you want to see the timelapse for these drawings! πΊ
Art Talk
My biggest barrier in creating art is expectation. If I think I should be able to do more than I'm capable of, I'll get discouraged and slow or stop. My successful(complete) projects are the ones where my expectations for it did not wear down my resolve/momentum to complete it before I reached the end.
In that sense, a projects success is determined by my very first choices about my expectations for it. This is why I love limitations so much in my work. Limited palettes, fewer locations, simpler characters, etc. It's not that I couldn't do something elaborate and complicated ie Fitting for a Lady, but that requires me to be at my best, and I'm more creative if I set expectations based on mid-tier Winton's work, not S-Tier Winton's work.
This got me thinking about animation again, I think if I was going to pursue short animation I would have to put some strong restrictions in place at the beginning, like:
1- A soundtrack or audio track to animate to so I don't worry about how I don't know anything about sound design.
2- A style of simple cartoon characters that looks nothing like the way I normally draw so I can have physicality but don't need to think about character model consistency.
3- Not a looping animation where things have to cleanly reconnect motion and fixate on line wiggle.
I love highly technical, beautifully drawn animation characters like from the ero anime character sheets I shared yesterday but I think if I tried to work on something that looks that clean to begin with I would start and stop 1000 times before I ever finished, whereas I could blaze through an animation with a looser style and actually have something to show for it.
The challenge, of course, is accepting the fact that I would like to be able to do something complex, but really should start with something simple and easy. π Thanks for letting me vent.
....Happy Wednesday! π
Winton
Comments
Winton Kidd
It's kinda painful how ubiquitous so many creative struggles are, but maybe that should be more comforting, like we're all just fighting the same spectres. I highly recommend trying some hard limitations, my recipe for success in the past was to keep uncomplicating things by taking away elements until I think "oh, that will be EASY" and then play around with those limitations to see what kinda new things I can come up with!
ValeRipley
OMG so much. this. That first paragraph of your art talk is literally me to a T π I appreciate your philosophy on using limitations when drawing. I feel like it would set at ease the part of my brain that likes to overthink and complicate things according to the distorted logic of βthe more elaborate it is, the betterβ. Always a pleasure to see your doodles! The satyr ones are particularly exquisite to look at, lots of appealing round shapes going on βΊοΈ
Winton Kidd
Thank you friend for reading the ramblings β€οΈ that kind of unsolicited "help" is so annoying, I hear you π
Winton Kidd
Sometimes I wonder if it would be any different if I could convince myself nobody was going to see it, would that make me feel more comfortable making imperfect things?? π€ oh well, struggle on, Richard!β€οΈ
Winton Kidd
Hehehehehhehehee
Zack
If I saw that satyr out in the woods I don't think I'd ever go back indoors π
Richard Tater
I always struggle with wanting my project to be perfect right out the gate. Keep having to remind myself that "perfect is the enemy of good"! Excited to see the animation journey unfold!
θ²ε ¬θ±
As usual, love the art process talk :3 Def gonna digest it myself, cuz the discouragement barrier is absolutely a big part of my own foot dragging with my art projects (Second is unmedicated ADHD of course XD) But yeah, appreciate hearing how you manage it, esp unpacking what making art with limitation means for you :3 Have def gotten that advice before, but never with the one giving the advice unpacking their own process of it, theoretical or actual... and for me it tends to also sound like a mfer is trying to step in as my editor w/o consent >:/ So yeh, thanks for the perspectivesssss :3 ... and eeeee at the doodlessss :3 always love seeing the trans bodies you draw :3
