Have had major art block lately, but Robert Valley inspired me to try again
Jamie Hewlett's work has also been a giant source of inspiration as well. I took the photo at this angle because I wanted it to appear like she's leaning on a wall and sort of outstretched? I dont know how to describe it but if you've seen Robert Valley's work, I think you'll get a pretty good idea of the kind of perspective I was going for. I also challenged myself to move quickly, using only a pen, I'm trying to learn how to be decisive with my strokes and just roll with any mistakes made. I try to make notes for corrections when I decide to translate this over to a digital canvas. This probably looks awful so I'm anxious to share but I'm also open to critique or tips to improve. I had a problem before with trying to "render" everything even if my intent was to get cleaner shapes and solid shadows. I'm trying to focus less on soft shading where it isnt needed because it just muddies things up. Often the sentiment that less is more applies well, but sometimes it feels like if I dont add more, there's not enough to look at, or somethings missing. I also apologize because I'm not good at articulating what I mean, so I hope I made some sense. I used to only do anime, and that's quite easy for me still. But I just really want to move on to different things, I enjoy looking at comic art more now than I used to because theres just so much more for me to explore. Anyways, I want to have more fun doing art, failure kills my motivation. At least, what I perceive as failure, like feeling like my skills arent actually developing at all I guess? I'm trying to be more forgiving with myself, I think I preemptively tear myself down so harshly that it keeps me from just picking up the pen and trying again. But, I love art and I dont want to give up.
Also ignore the figure in the background, that was an older failed sketch lmao