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[lookingland]

i continue to struggle with color envy. i want oooo shiny colors like on Phoenix Requiem, but i am utterly incapable of working with a palette, it seems. i dunno. maybe this coming weekend i could try some things, but i feel like every time i start messing with digital coloring, i just get up crick without a paddle. monotones are safer.



it's sort of weird telling the story this way. i am developing some anxiety about the structure, but i'll try to keep that hound at bay as long as i can. i have a lot of thumbnails worked out in a general sense, but there are still holes here and there that i need to work on and i am sort of itchy at how much work this is (have i mentioned that i am lazy?). but really, it's not the degree of work that's frustrating so as much as it is just the slowness of it: i put in a lot of hours on the weekend and even though i did a lot, it ain't moving fast enough.

and the semester is starting to creep, school-wise, so pretty soon midterms are going to be biting in me in b-hind. but once turkey day is here, it's all over (yay!), though i am not looking forward to the whole job-hunting/moving process.

anyway...not much to say lately, i guess. busy in my head, i s'pose. and that's not necessarily a bad thing.

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Comments

[dsch.livejournal.com]

I personally have always thought your monotones are really classy and mood-setting. Fallback from color envy or not (and that link you posted is just wow on the colors - I think most people would envy that!), I like how you're coloring these period pieces. It's like you've tapped into the photography of the era through more than just looking at how people dressed.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

first of all, your avatar made me laugh outloud ~ i love it!

thank you for your comments ~ !

it is hard sometimes to see what amazing things other people do and thinking: yeah, i want mine to look just like that! i've mostly gotten over my dylan meconis (http://dylanmeconis.com/) envy, so i think this too shall pass.

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[nextian.livejournal.com]

I haven't commented yet re: the comic, but I really ought to, seeing as I'm enjoying it already. ^^ The hand-misadjusting-the-painting is v. cool.

But hell yes, I feel you on the how-much-time-it-takes. Every time I sit down to draw I have to tell myself that it takes ten hours to do a page for some artists. I get pissy when it takes more than ten minutes. I think this is a large contributor to the (lack of) quality in my art, and to why I can't be arsed to start one of my own.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thank you ~ !

it was a big revelation to me to sit next to steve hamaker (http://www.steve-hamaker.com/) at ComicCon and here him talk about how it takes him 2 to 4 hours to do a fairly simple color job on a single page (just coloring ~ no drawing or inking). i can do a page start to finish in the same four hours, so clearly i just don't have patience!

on the other hand, i kinda feel like if so many other people can find the four hours to color a page, then surely i can too! i really want to push myself to be committed on this thing since i waffle so much on everything else. even if the art itself is not "astonishingly amazing", it would be "astonishingly amazing" enough for me, just to see it through.

and: i would love to see more of your work!

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[cathellisen.livejournal.com]

Oh I dunno. I think the monotone sepia look gives it a period feel.

Sometimes striking is the way to go.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

i agree with you, though i think you can do things with muted tones to keep the old-timey effect and still get a deeper/richer feel.

mostly, i think i just suffer from chronic grass-is-always-greener syndrome.

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[bachsoprano.livejournal.com]

I rather like the gray tones, myself....they're rather atmospheric. I took a peek at the Phoenix Requiem link and it is lovely, but it seems rather candy-coated to me (which might be right for that story, so I don't mean that in a critical way....)

Dear midterms, please leave B's b-hind alone....ouches!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thankie, Cat!

i sorta agree about candy-coated, but i salivate at the sight of bright shiny like most other magpies. i tend to think i don't have very good judgment about these things.

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