I Got the Glow
Mar. 21st, 2010 12:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanticoGuys, my life is so hard--- I have all this art and can't post it because it's not yet published. Woe is me, actually working in the field I want. Woe.
Okay, it is sad that I haven't got a whit of art done for myself, but I'm trying. Once again I'm not going to have enough to carry off a con booth, though seeing as I could never afford one at GenCon anyway (2000$ dollars, what), and Origins is naught but two weeks before my wedding, I'm not sweating it too much. it's not for lack of ideas, either--- I'm totally backed up on art I want to do, both in inks and digital painting. I am also hearing, from across the ocean of possibility, the siren call of comics once again. I'm thinking of stretching my legs with some five panel one shots, probably for the Exalted game, because other than art that is the only thinkg I am thinking about anymore.
Once in a very great while, when the clouds part and the gods smile upon me, I get some time to paint for myself. This is a preview of what I'm currently working on:
for long sufering Ben O., who was promised this picture so very long ago in exchange for his mad massage skills. ACtually, orginally it was just a character sketch, but since it has been owed to him for FOUR YEARS, I decided a painting was the least I could do.
Man, I waffle on where I want to be taking my style. At this point, I have two very distinct ways of painting-- full digital paint, like this, and paint laid under inks, which is a lot of the work I'm doing now for, you know, real work. They both have their merits and their markets. The inks are definitely more distinct and unique, but the digital painting is more universally acceptable (by the stands set by WotC, at least, who have specifically advised me for the past three years to move more toward this style). I fear that by splitting myself between them both, I'm watering down an artistic trademark, but on the other hand, I like being this versatile, because certain pictures call for one style more than the other. But, ehhhhh . . . when I think of hanging a show, I'm not so sure it will look united.
It doesn't help that, for another new project, I'm trying an *entirely* different method.
Pfffts.
For the time being, I will let Sho'nuff soothe my soul.
Who's bad?
Sho'nuff.
Okay, it is sad that I haven't got a whit of art done for myself, but I'm trying. Once again I'm not going to have enough to carry off a con booth, though seeing as I could never afford one at GenCon anyway (2000$ dollars, what), and Origins is naught but two weeks before my wedding, I'm not sweating it too much. it's not for lack of ideas, either--- I'm totally backed up on art I want to do, both in inks and digital painting. I am also hearing, from across the ocean of possibility, the siren call of comics once again. I'm thinking of stretching my legs with some five panel one shots, probably for the Exalted game, because other than art that is the only thinkg I am thinking about anymore.
Once in a very great while, when the clouds part and the gods smile upon me, I get some time to paint for myself. This is a preview of what I'm currently working on:
for long sufering Ben O., who was promised this picture so very long ago in exchange for his mad massage skills. ACtually, orginally it was just a character sketch, but since it has been owed to him for FOUR YEARS, I decided a painting was the least I could do.
Man, I waffle on where I want to be taking my style. At this point, I have two very distinct ways of painting-- full digital paint, like this, and paint laid under inks, which is a lot of the work I'm doing now for, you know, real work. They both have their merits and their markets. The inks are definitely more distinct and unique, but the digital painting is more universally acceptable (by the stands set by WotC, at least, who have specifically advised me for the past three years to move more toward this style). I fear that by splitting myself between them both, I'm watering down an artistic trademark, but on the other hand, I like being this versatile, because certain pictures call for one style more than the other. But, ehhhhh . . . when I think of hanging a show, I'm not so sure it will look united.
It doesn't help that, for another new project, I'm trying an *entirely* different method.
Pfffts.
For the time being, I will let Sho'nuff soothe my soul.
Who's bad?
Sho'nuff.
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