033 // ~ Wow! It’s Made! No.2: “A Tree In 2,023 Steps!”
I captured this from the redo stack of a tree I drew recently as a technique study, and I thought that I might also post a capture of the creation of it. I hope you find this kind of thing as mesmerizing as I do.
Start to finish, it took maybe three hours to do. Slow, but I am becoming better at it, I think.
As if you had missed it, the name is a reference to the plentiful and very useful, if slightly frustrating, tutorial images available online that offer you a lesson on drawing something in six or eight steps, which tend to leave out some critical leap or structure that tells you exactly how to get the details the way you need them (it tends to be around the fourth or fifth). Instead of that, I would like to offer you the complete process, directly from my edit history, from vacant workspace to signed product. Confounding step? Miss something? Need a bit of interpolation? Go back to the exact moment where it happened and study the result in this fun, 108-second animated image, uncluttered by explanations, descriptions, or frame numbers! Tell your friends!
The tree has ten colours, plus a transparency value. 1,971 of the GIF's 2,023 frames are of its construction, and the remainder are just me being fancy, plus a bit of LICEcap being a nuisance at the end.
Anyway, this has been a good week for neither my game nor my health, so I am afraid there is not much to see here. Hopefully, there will be more to see next time.
Until then!