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Since it is indeed Draw a Centaur Day, I felt compelled to actually take part this year because I quite like centaurs. Honestly I shouldn't be doing this since I'm so damn busy but I wanted to at least get some kind of loose sketch done. So have a picture of my wood nymph Dhoquis having a frolic in some Vernal wildflowers.
Done in the moleskine sketchbook with a mechanical pencil, blending stump and a Col-Erase pencil. Only took me about 30 minutes this time! I'm starting to get faster.
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Goodness, thank you! I try to make even my chaotic messy sketches look interesting (seriously, the amount of erasing I had to do to clean this one up is...unreal). I'd actually like to revisit this sometime and make it into a full blown polished piece because I love rendering outdoor scenery...
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Oh, sounds interesting, I wouldn't mind seeing that. :D God, I have such traumatic memories from drawing in a more traditional way so I admire that you are going down that path.. as you said, lots of erasing, and lots of such tinkering.
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Unfortunately being so busy lately with more important artistic obligations will force me to put such a project in the "Eventually - To be Determined" pile, but if an idea is good enough it always sticks with me.
My brain embraces tinkering and fiddling! It's a natural state for me these days. I'm sorry to hear you have some negative feelings regarding such, but it's a great time to be alive in the days of digital art so one way or another you have a creative outlet!
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Oh I apologize for writing more comments than necessary, I just felt tempted to reply to this too. :D Take your time though with your projects, I personally know how it feels to have other things you may need to attend to, even if they are desired or undesired.
And I do know how tinkering can be fun, it is just that I get so nervous about ruining my traditional drawings because if you do too much to them you kind of ruin them, and you have no CTRL+Z option really. xD Which is why I admire your courage when it comes to that. My traditional drawing process is more quick, ferocious, messy, and then I just forget to keep working on it, haha.
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Last I checked, there's no such thing as a comment limit! And if there is, I did not get the memo so if you get caught by the Discourse Police tell them I made you do it.
Aha, I understand completely. The pressure of doing well and not wasting traditional resources for fear of it being unfix-able, yes? I've heard from multiple other artists of this same problem and it usually makes them stagnate if they don't find a way around that line of thinking. These days I think of each of my mistakes as a stepping stone as much as my successes are, so I suppose that is primarily how I'm able to get around the feeling of failure. Digital art is most definitely a special kind of freedom though, I admit.
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Oh, I see.. Hmm, your drawings and comment inspire me though to try and give traditional art a second try! :D And I am glad you don't mind the comments, haha, I am a very.. talkative fellow.
But yes, I can see I am not the only one that struggles with this kind of art then, it seems.. But I shall now try harder! As you said, wasting resources is more or less the main issue. Thank you for the inspiration. :)
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I love the design of her tailfeathers, I think this is much better.
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I really like the flow of the movement in this drawing.. very stylish, atmospheric and beautiful. :)