Don’t get discouraged, it’s looking pretty cool. :DI want to see it finished!
John Darksoul (excellent work, op. I love the demon’s wing structure and pose)
I used too much white for the ball, so it blends in, but they are actually playing fetch
Oh! I love that! I thought it was a magic spell
OP this is gorgeous, just because your technical expression isn’t applied as you desired doesn’t mean your art is somehow less
Not OP, but I’ve never been exposed to those words in that order and I can’t tell you how lovely they are. I’ve definitely needed them before. Thanks for spreading kind words!
Okay sorry, Ive had a bad day and it turned into a rant, tho I still want to say it
Look, Im OP and I don’t like this attitude of denying people the right to fail. The important thing is to be proud of your failed projects, as unintuitive as that sounds. What is probably my best painting on a technical level is actually quite garbage, I will not share it again I don’t even remember it most of the time. What got the most likes out of everything that Ive posted on DeviantArt was actually made because I couldn’t draw an actual necromancer in the pose I wanted, and I turned the whole thing into a skull golem. My favorite concept I came up with - “the beast to devour the sun” don’t remember if it was 2 or 3 attempts, both ruined by my lack of experience with the medium Ive used - it taught me how to not do things and I still think both iterations were one of my very best original designs. Lack of failures is synonymous with staying in your comfort zone, with stagnation
These are the designs
Look, this is the one sheet out of 10 that I painted on today and it isn’t a failure. But you know what? Failing is fun and slowly gets you back into the rhythm. It’s just real damn shame it was watercolor paper, that crap is expensive af
Careful, I felt that way a few years ago and decided to paint at least once a day and now I make excuses to do it instead of hang out with friends (occasionally).
Due to what people consider disorders I am a creature of impulses, trying to keep a routine literally broke my brain before, so that’s 100% not something I would need to worry about
I’m normally the way too, but figuring out how to harness hyperfocus (I’m ADHD) and systems theory (mostly Atomic Habits style stuff) and SMART goals I’m now pretty good at getting me to do stuff.
Not so much ~30+ years ago.
