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Lack of productivity / Art Style Direction
🕑 Added 2020-09-26 18:29:20 +0000 UTCSome of y'all may notice I've been quite unproductive lately, more so than before. At least here.
Yes, the Army life has been leaving me tired and slightly unmotivated, but despite this, I actually have been doodling quite a bit in my off time, but the problem is finding the drive to actually complete them (and I have this personal policy about ONLY uploading when I've actually progressed past what I've uploaded or plan to upload). It's at this point, I may be changing my strategy when it comes to finishing them.
It's started as of Page 2 for North Rising, 4 months ago. I've been using a 'new style' for linework, where I use vector lines in place of raster lines, hence why the linework is -stupid- clean and 'perfect', with no inconsistent 'pinches' in thickness in them. Something I feel is ideal, given the synthetic nature of aeromorphs.
For those that don't know, and to try and put it simply, but vector graphics retain their crispness and clarity, regardless of the resolution the image is at, so you can scale it up from 512x512 to 8K and the image will still be crisp and clear. Try that with raster graphics, and it will turn out blurry, pixelated and perhaps unrecognizable. Basically, it'd look like garbage.
As a result, I could scale the image up to stupid-high resolutions for real high-quality prints.
I couldn't be more satisfied with the final product.
But there's something I overlooked in all this; I already draw at stupid-high resolutions, even before relying on vectors, so this is a bit overkill.
Plus, as I began to experiment back and forth on these, I find that working with vectors is a little more on the time-consuming side, and to that extent, I find myself intimidated, especially when it comes to comics, which are -huge- images, and therefore, just back off and do up a new sketch.
Basically, to sum it all up...
In my obsession with 'perfection', that ALL my works had to be held to this standard, all drawn in this advanced style, I then got intimidated and lost sight of the bigger picture(s). So, for the sake of simplicity and productivity, I'm gonna be changing this.
I'll still do images with the vector style, but I'm gonna be doing more images with my older style (or do a mix of the two), and try something new as well to actually get some of my unfinished sketches out there, for the sake of not letting them accumulate on my hard drive and fade into obscurity.
You'll be seeing a few soon! The MiG-31 pic will be in my older style.
I also have been dabbling in 3D a little more lately too. You'll probably be seeing some of that in the near future too!
Comments
gunstar_1
Sounds a little like this is also a matter of you reworking your "time management" scheme you currently operate under. It's a hard thing to work out as only you really can be the one to determine if what you've worked out is a good "balance" for you.
RenTheDragon
I guess another little way to sum it up is - What I wanted, I was -working- for it, not making it work for -me.-
