I was feeling strangely self-conscious about color choices tonight, as if I had to know all the colors that things are in real life so that I could convincingly attempt to paint them, which was naturally very frustrating as a smallish voice in my head kept trying to correct me about what I was doing, although the voice didn’t really know any better than the rest of me.
I started with a sketch, and while I was doing that, I was preparing a long rambling statement about my thought process as I work, but lost it when I transferred to the coloring part:
Then I wrestled with the Paintbrush tool for probably close to 10 minuted before realizing that it had been set to Multiply, which made the colors interact in highly unexpected ways, and starting over. Then, for some reason, I had the above-mentioned self-doubt issues, and started nagging myself about needing to create convincing shadows with colors, although I wasn’t sure what colors I needed to use (for some reason, I got hung up on needing to find “the right brown” for the horns, and stayed there longer than I had any right to), and ended up with this:
Despite my wanting to get away from my line work, I haven’t really been able to (part of the rambling I had originally intended to post) so really, I ended up with this. When things (eventually) calm down a bit, I really need to look into some sort of painting class, because not knowing how to create a convincing edge is annoying the hell out of me:
And that’s where I’m at. Now I am going to go have a sammich. G’night all.
