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Drawing Is Hard
Feb. 16th, 2021 08:33 amI posted a new Demon King comic...
https://rynling.tumblr.com/post/643234184994881536/we-live-in-a-society
...and it looks okay, but it was also an abysmal failure.
This was supposed to be a four-panel comic in which Balthazar's facial expression becomes less "angry" and more "disappointed" as he goes through an extended rant, but then I went overboard on the coloring and details of the first panel and ending up spending more than five hours on it. I decided to change the script so that I could just post the one panel.
I like this style a lot, but I'm going to have to figure out how to simplify it. I'm afraid what's going to need to happen is that the first few longer comics I make with these characters are going to be ugly before I figure out how the style works, and I'm just going to have to commit to that while cringing and crying a little on the inside.
I love drawing, but I have zero artistic talent or innate artistic sensibility. I think this is primarily because I spend all day writing and only work on art a few minutes at a time. I used to draw a lot, though, and when I look back at my sketchbooks from high school (when I was doing a lot of figure drawing and architectural studies), I'm like, Damn son.
Unfortunately, between working three jobs and spending most of August and September living out of my car and missing morning classes because I occasionally got picked up by the police for vagrancy and couldn't get out of jail before 9:00am, I totally failed my first semester of college. I made the decision to quit drawing over winter break, and I didn't so much as pick up a pencil and look at a blank sheet of paper again until the second year of my first longterm full-time job, which was in 2016. I feel like a lot of what I've been doing since then is trying to play catch-up to where I was in high school. Also, the way I draw characters got stuck in a early-2000s anime style that I'm not crazy about, and I've been trying to break out of that as well.
In order to do anything well, you have to do it all the time for years, but I find drawing to be emotionally draining because I can never get anything to look like how I imagine it in my head.
Idk idk idk idk. More on this later, probably.
https://rynling.tumblr.com/post/643234184994881536/we-live-in-a-society
...and it looks okay, but it was also an abysmal failure.
This was supposed to be a four-panel comic in which Balthazar's facial expression becomes less "angry" and more "disappointed" as he goes through an extended rant, but then I went overboard on the coloring and details of the first panel and ending up spending more than five hours on it. I decided to change the script so that I could just post the one panel.
I like this style a lot, but I'm going to have to figure out how to simplify it. I'm afraid what's going to need to happen is that the first few longer comics I make with these characters are going to be ugly before I figure out how the style works, and I'm just going to have to commit to that while cringing and crying a little on the inside.
I love drawing, but I have zero artistic talent or innate artistic sensibility. I think this is primarily because I spend all day writing and only work on art a few minutes at a time. I used to draw a lot, though, and when I look back at my sketchbooks from high school (when I was doing a lot of figure drawing and architectural studies), I'm like, Damn son.
Unfortunately, between working three jobs and spending most of August and September living out of my car and missing morning classes because I occasionally got picked up by the police for vagrancy and couldn't get out of jail before 9:00am, I totally failed my first semester of college. I made the decision to quit drawing over winter break, and I didn't so much as pick up a pencil and look at a blank sheet of paper again until the second year of my first longterm full-time job, which was in 2016. I feel like a lot of what I've been doing since then is trying to play catch-up to where I was in high school. Also, the way I draw characters got stuck in a early-2000s anime style that I'm not crazy about, and I've been trying to break out of that as well.
In order to do anything well, you have to do it all the time for years, but I find drawing to be emotionally draining because I can never get anything to look like how I imagine it in my head.
Idk idk idk idk. More on this later, probably.
