art log

November 6, 2024

(preview image lol lmao. what a load of wonk! it'll be fixed before the final upload.)

umm. what a day, huh? that pretty much sums up how i felt throughout this entire process. as in, i had no idea what i was doing or what was going on

veryy much the complete opposite of the previous piece, which helps in seeing the why. most of it has to do with the fact that i was going completely off of my imagination, instead of working with an already existing thing. i also wanted to be "neat" and that meant using layers, more than i've gotten used to (the bliss of only using 1-3 layers...)

i used to be really neat with my art (you can see this with the art i have on the site), mostly because i was afraid of something not turning out right. and now that i'm completely out of practice, it shows. it's incredibly embarrassing how wonky the lines look. i think it's because i'm not used to working with pen pressure . maybe i should have turned on the stabilizer..?

as for the imagination part: lol. the problem with working without constraints is that you have a lot of options. admittedly this is a non-problem because even with a lot of ideas, you'll know which one you like the best. i guess my specific issue here is that i feel like i could have done something better? probably. but that's OK, there will always be more opportunities to improve on this specific idea later

and OH YEAH, how could i forget. BACKGROUNDS. i'm already uncomfortable with them and with the whole layers thing? not very fun. how do people do this??? that being said, i don't hate it, which is honestly a big win in my books!

so, overall, a strange process where things a lot differently than how i'm used to. if nothing, it's a step towards being able to make more cinematic art. 👍

November 3, 2024

(preview image. full will be posted in a fewwwwww)

it's been so long since i've been this excited for a piece!! very much based on and inspired by Casino Royale's opening, "You Know My Name". thank you james bond movie intros for existing

a weird amount of coincidence led me here. out of the blue, i assigned card suits to the characters shown here, just for fun... a few days later, the song got recommended to me. a fucking banger of a song, so of course i put it on repeat. and then i watch the video and ohhh wow

it just all came together, really. a little too perfectly?

working on it was a nice mix of everything i've learned before (lineless silouhettes) and something new (working with patterns).

the patterns are, uhmm, not pixel perfect because i laid them out myself and manually adjusted it if it wasn't looking right. it doesn't look shabby though, so i can make peace with it

in general with my art i've noticed that i've been a lot more relaxed, with both ideating and executing. i probably wouldn't have even considered making something like this if it wasn't for doing something like the dailies, where i worked with the lasso tool a lot

(i've come to love the lasso tool in the past few months. it just makes everything so much easier, man)

i've also learned to be more okay with the ugly stage of art. i nearly considered omitting the second third because it wasn't looking right. instead, i ended up moving on to the next part and when i came back to it, it was just... smoother

yaup, a whole lotta fun came with this, it was great!