If I really focus, I can get some decent line work and shading in. But I’m trying to work on a style I enjoy and can replicate. So while these sketches aren’t half-bad, I’m trying to take this a bit further.
Like if I really focus, I can attend to the linework and shading and have something cool, but like I also want to have something me.
For example, this project I’ve been working on for my family. I want to draw everyone as children doing children activities to welcome the new baby my sister in law is pregnant with.
Using references I can get the poses, even making some adjustments for the ages, and I can use references for faces too. But sometimes they just don’t quite go together, so it becomes this effect of some looking great and others looking a little smushed. And I’m not quite able to identify and replicate a defining feature for each person, so that’s not a solution(yet).
I like the artists, the scientists, the ballerinas, and the gamers. The makeup girls are cute but something still feels missing about the left one(possibly because that one’s my wife who I see daily). The Clarinet player cane out alright aside from her fingers being a little… long. The football players and chefs, though, I’m at a loss. I like the bigger chef, and I like the little chef, but something feels off. I can’t put my finger on it!
(We’ll ignore the American Football players for now, since they’re likely going to be drawn into new poses).
Anyway. I see this in a lot of my work, where it just doesn’t quite feel right. Something will work, and then something just won’t. Is this just normal?
Like on this one, all the green checks signify the ones that I like. Came out fine. Red exes are the ones I’m a little embarrassed to look at. Blue OK are the ones I’m not sure I like or not. but like I just. Couldn’t fix them?
I know drawing takes practice and I know I’ve only improved as much as I have through exactly that… but why does it feel like magic or something when I manage to produce something I like??
Is there something wrong with me? Is it my attention span? I can never retain information for very long or simultaneously with trying to use it. Not without a loooot of practice anyway.
But I guess I still feel like I’m just missing some essential something.
At least I’m at a point where I’m more likely to like my work than want to tear it to pieces.
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