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I just realized, having finished my first paying commission, that I don't have anything else lined up immediately for projects. Weird. I've been so absorbed in that work that I let other projects sit on the back burner so long, they've gone cool. I wonder what I'll think to do next... HM.
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private drawings such as sketches, portraits and various handmade drawings. Due to the fact that it is not possible to hide folders, I decided to use this form of collecting my works
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Who needs consistency?
My gallery is all higgledy-piggledy. Whatever I happen to be working on is what ends up here. My long-term projects get intermixed with quick sketches and ideas that strike me, and I jot them down before they get away. One day it's Victorian Cthulhu, the next day it's a RPG art, or a doodle, or fan art... It's like getting your peanut butter mixed in with chocolate, and butterscotch and celery, and...
This is where someone points out that I could put each thing in different galleries. But which to feature and which to squirrel away? Decisions, decisions.
a Christmas post!
Since I've been home with my parents for most of December (my dad was in the hospital for 2 weeks), I've been cranking out pen illustrations/sketches for the Brooklyn Museum Sketchbook Project (link here). It's a brilliant idea and there are some wickedly cool things that people have done with the sketchbooks. Definitely pushing the envelope.
Me, I'm being pretty traditional. I have the theme of "[your name here]" which has led to interesting drawings. You'd think, given that I had it since the end of October, I could do lots more with it. That does not account for a lot of rumination and procrastination. Once you factor those into it,
Busier and busier, said phodyr
It seems like I haven't done anything of note lately, but I'm busy busy busy. I'm working on a guest comic strip for the webcomic Clockworks (don't want to post anything until it goes live), and I have the basking mermaid painting that I've been working on for ages that lies in a folder, waiting to be finished. So close!
So if you're wondering, that's what's up.
Less Expectations
My drawings never end up as they start out. For the longest time, that used to drive me up the wall. The picture I had in my head was so CLEAR, and this... this... THING I had just drawn looks only kinda sorta somewhat like it! Why can't I draw what I imagine?!?
But then I figured it out: what I end up with is the end product of a variety of things. The idea is my head is the starting place, but it has to through my head, get filtered through my mood, be translated by my skills, and rendered within the bounds of the medium using whatever tool works best. Too many forces between the idea and the end result. Besides which, the idea has
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