Geez. Nine months ago, the only thing I had to say was "This is what I did for the last three years. Here are three things I'm working on"?
I'm so lame.
The main art-related things I've done in the last year are drawing cards for people for Christmas/birthdays/New Year and a couple of little crochet projects. Nothing worth talking about, at least. xD
But it seems that getting back into Harry Potter roleplay is starting to get my creative juices flowing, and I'm finally--
finally-- starting to make baby-steps away from anime-style art. 8D
Er. Not that there's anything wrong with anime-style art, of course; even if I don't watch it anymore, I adore the art style. *_* Well, manga art, at least~ But for years now, it just doesn't... feel right for
me. B| Like, I draw something, then stare at it and go "
I did that? Hm. That's nothing like I expected." o___o And as the closest thing I had to an art style was absolutely and totally anime-based... OTL It's fun for chibis but I don't like it being the only thing I can ever produce. =X
Yeah, no. XD
What it boils down to is that I'm basically so so so inflexible. I absolutely love versatile artists and versatility is... not something I can manage myself. XD Or consistency. (
D'oh!) So I'm working on a picture of Draco with no lines~ :3 I figure that's the first step to getting away from anime art-- learning to break away from black-and-white lines guiding my everything. XD With the lines, it's way too tempting to fall back to what's tried and true. It's a bit of a shame, I guess, since I
love inking lineart, but I haven't done any proper inking in ages now anyway. It also resulted in my being lazy as hell at colouring...
I never did learn to colour, really-- just fill in the space between the lines, then run the highlight and burn tools over everything. XD I figure forcing myself to not use lines might-- keeping my fingers crossed-- force me to kindasortamaybe learn to colour properly as well.
So far, the picture is sorta fail, but we'll see how the end result turns out. xD He looks
creepyyyy at the moment. ;_;
Oh. And
Happy New Year~ 새해 복 많이 받으세요!! あけましておめでとう、みんな~
Thank Salazar 2011 is over.