Thursday Art Walk

 

In Which I have HAD A DAY....

I have been painting all. freaking. day.

And I failed.

I failed so hard.

What I was trying to do was a wet-on-wet splotch background using all of the paints I currently have.

What I ended up with was a mess because my dumb butt forgot to turn off all my fans, so the "wet" part just... dried up. And puddled.

It was bad. Don't believe me?

An Attempt Was Made

I tried, guys. I really tried. And it almost looks cool, but the hope was to use that as a background, and it's waaaaaaaaaaay too saturated for that.

So I tried again! This time I wanted to paint lines, so I did that... but...

Cue Sad Trombone...

I think the worst part is that it almost looks interesting.

But almost doesn't make the grade, my peeps. It simply does not.

I have been cranky and grumpy and really, really disappointed all day because of this nonsense, and my poor boyfriend has had to hear it allllllllllllll. I probably whined for 40 minutes about how it just wouldn't cooperate.

But as you might have noticed from the doodle up top, not all is lost, because Sharpie and some random fineliners I snagged at one of our local bookstores had my back and I whipped out these lil Dedbert drawings in five minutes flat!

"Fine."; marker on printer paper; 2021

And thus ends the saga of the no-good, very bad, awful crappy art day.

Lol I just noticed that you can see the greeting card I was using to protect my notebook from marker bleedthrough...

Anywho, yeah, sometimes you can work very hard and still not have your project work out. And sometimes walking away and coming back later doesn't help. Sometimes even starting over doesn't work. Sometimes you just need to do something else lol!

So I hope y'all are having an easier time than me, creatively!

Go Enjoy Something!

FC

Thursday Art Walk 230: Sketching is Hard

Welcome to Today's Art Blog

Today has been a long one - I started by trying to sketch out a pair of characters, but I hate how they're coming along, so I'll probably scrap it and start over. These characters are from a set of stories I refer to as the Scarlet Rose stories, though they're technically from the offshoot, Spook Patrol. These two are supposed to be scaredy-cat Spencer Jaziri-Wyrick and Executive Producer Sara Goldstellar. Unfortunately, I cannot draw people worth a damn, so I'm just going to have to work on that... a lot.  Like... a lot a lot.

I refuse to embiggen this.
Yikes. This is very very bad.
It looks like a child drew it :(

On the other hand, I also had some inspiration to draw the worst cat I've ever drawn, so when I finished it, I just had to add some snark.

He's so DERP DERP!

I feel I should also mention that I'm actually kind of looking forward to the new CATS movie. It's not because I think it'll be any good. I hope they don't change anything. I want to see this trainwreck in action with friends. I think it's going to be the 21st century equivalent of The Apple or the second coming of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark!

I cannot wait!

So that's been my day - struggling to make people look like people and drawing the derpiest cat on Earth. Sometimes that's just how it goes, lol!

That'll do it for me

Go Enjoy Something!
FC