#50 What a life
Well, this is not what I planned.
This almost 2 month break, this art, this life.
Like I said in my previous post, I wanted my 50th post to be something BIG. Bigger than anything I have done before.
But working on that project was so hard, I just could not get myself to do it. I felt so much pressure: "It's for the anniversary, it must be the best thing I ever created"
At the end, I was promising to myself that, I'll work on it tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow... I think you get the drill.
Now, after two months, I think I understand why: I was not part of my goal. I always wanted to do things for others, to show them my gratitude, not to make great arts just for the sake of being great.
This art was purely for fun, and because I was really missing pixels. It's funny, a year ago I would have never thought about working on a project like this. Now, a year has passed, and I don't even think about quitting.
I have no idea where this will bring me, how it will end, if any successes are even front of me, how many failures I will have to go through. But I'm willing to try.
Pixeling after such a long break like this is a nightmare. I felt like I forgot everything and just stop at all. But it's like swimming, when you are in the water, you discover the body knows what to do.
I find this method of doing hair most reliable. Complicated shading and smooth transitions looks amazing, but just outlining is looking good enough (even, great if you mastered it... I didn't).
I had some problems with the eye, always trying to make them symmetrical, but it's not the right way. But making the inner part a little bigger and lighter looks much better.
Some simple facial features to get the placement right.
Lesson: the light reflection on the hair is the most important part. If hair you made doesn't look properly, you most likely forgot about it (or at least I do).
At this point, I was just adding more strands of hair and deleting any that weren't fitting.
Yea, the face is a terribly asymmetrical. I should have discovered it earlier, but the left hair strand disturbed proportions so much that I didn't realize until now.
Rest of the light reflection and some shading. They make all the difference.
The ears have no interest in looking soooooo great! But they do (after some polishing later). Generally, this thick shadow in the left ear carries this whole art on it's back.
This time I tried to spend more time on polishing than usually. I might not be able to pixel giant beautiful arts, but I can work on better polishing, and getting there step by step. My final advice, that was ruining this art for the longest time: Don't make wide eyes!!! (or eye in this example)
Anyway, thank you for not giving up! We fall, make mistakes, fuck up, but we try again and again! I believe in both of us!
