There are certain days where my creativity is drier than a desert. But there are also days when it keeps coming, so I gotta ride the train when it happens by. Last night I managed to finish two of my paintings in my folders.
The first is the Kapre I was working on the other day. I started with a dark base layer and wanted to see what I could do with it by adding lighter and darker colors. It eventually shaped up pretty well, especially when I started whipping out the details.
Painting monsters is really one of my most favorite things ever. It's ridiculously calming and I feel like it's the only thing I am actually good at.
I also decided to finish Cissa, who has also been lying around forever. I had wanted to test myself months and months ago if I could actually paint. So I started with Cissa's conceptual sketch and built on that, applying what things I picked up from watching amazing artists livestream. The top right one was my first attempt to paint, which I quickly abandoned when I realized that it wasn't shaping up how I wanted it to. Weeks later, I picked it up again, reshaping the face (and quickly learning that my strengths lay in SAI). I worked on this on and off for a couple of weeks, until I picked it up again yesterday. BAM, Cissa with shoulders! I would have gone on more but that would have exceeded my plans, not to mention gone past the PG-13 area.
Maybe I'll do that at another time!
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