Fate Hill: working sketch for "A Leap of Fate"
The process who led to the enclosed sketch suggested that I think a little curiosity about other artists process: if they do the way I got to this also, or if its just an individual quirk of mine.
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So: Do any, some, all, none, or other of you avatars out there sit there with G.I.M.P., (or whatever your graphics manipulation program may be) for hours on end obsessively going back and forth from layer to layer to layer, changing from normal to dissolve to burn to overlay to … etc. etc. etc., in the middle of maybe a day long binge of making similarly fiddly tweaks and saving frequent sketch JPGs (or whatever) whenever something looks cool; and then sort through and edit tomorrow or whenever the adrenaline crash sets in? Or am I just nuts?
1) Oh sure, Squirrel, don't worry about it, I don't know an artist who DOESN'T do that … 2) Yeah, i do that too. Isn't it nice to be part of the cool little clique that knows the secret, and WTF are you doing blabbing it all over Tumblr? 3) No, Dan o' Shanter, hate to break it to ya, but yr just plain nuts 4) What did you … Look. Who ever you are, whatever you want. I have not eaten in three weeks. I have not bathed in five months, I had to think for five minutes before I remembered that the sound I was hearing coming, apparently, from your mouth (gotta make a note of that, let;s see, note to self, have brains coming out of mouth in the form of words in Leap of Fate series … hah?) … you still here? anyway, I've got brains coming out of my mouth right now but I am closing in on an abso Flucking Lute Flucking MASTERFluckingPIECE and I think. I. Have. Almost. Got. It. If. I. Don't. Breathe. Too. Hard. And scare it. Away. Come back and talk to me next year sometime, huh? Be a goo hooman?.
POLL THE WAY TUMBLR WANTS ME TO DO IT IN THEIR LITTLE TICKY TACKY SQUARE BOXES FOR FOUR-CORNERED POLYHEDRAL PEGS
Do any, some, all, none, or other of you avatars out there sit there with G.I.M.P., (or whatever your graphics manipulation program may be) for hours on end obsessively going back and forth from layer to layer to layer, changing from normal to dissolve to burn to overlay to … etc. etc. etc., in the middle of maybe a day long binge of making similarly fiddly tweaks and saving frequent sketch JPGs (or whatever) whenever something looks cool; and then sort through and edit tomorrow or whenever the adrenaline crash sets in? Or am I just nuts?
Oh sure, Squirrel, don't worry about it, I don't know an artist who DOESN'T do t
Yes, isn't it nice to be part of the SMALL IN GROUP that knows, and WTFlick are
No, Dan o' Shanter, hate to break it to ya, but yr just plain nuts
4) What did you … Look. Who ever you are, whatever you want. I have not eaten in
(damn, they won't hardly let you put any length at all in your poll answers, how the hell is a guy supposed to get any nuance or humour or even STYLE POINTS around here?! Tumblr scorecard gets a -1.)