If You're Not A Texan, You Won't Get Why This Photo Is THE COOLEST THING EVER. If You Are A Texan, Why

If you're not a Texan, you won't get why this photo is THE COOLEST THING EVER. If you are a Texan, why the hell aren't you outside?

I ran the window like a 6 year old seeing snow for the first time when Jeff mentioned it on twitter.

edit: I tried really hard to do it with just lines, because I'm always cheating and bullshitting when I can shade stuff to make it look prettier. But truthfully it was impossible to get the nuances of the folds without some sort of shading going on.

More NPC portraits. This is probably the only npc I've told prospective players much about thus far, but she's also one of the few ones I haven't come up with a name for yet.

Sorry to keep posting wips of this picture. >>

I took some time away from working on art and have just been beating ffxiii for the last few days. I got most of the way through it before I got bored when it came out, and I picked it back up last week. But then the last city in the game reminded me of what I was trying to do with this picture - a city backlit by sunrise. And then it made me realize what I was totally doing wrong with the colours I'd had in this picture by having a sky with grey clouds and totally blue buildings, so I fixed it so that the reflections and light is actually the warm glow I was putting on the characters.

I'm trying not to be so hard on myself for taking a break from painting, since it seems to have actually improved the picture, even if it's set me even further back from when I wanted to have this done. Ugh I can't believe I don't even have the background done yet.

Okay, it's finished. Character for James' rp.

Incoming tl;dr, please skip: I can't really articulate why I decided to just skip the second half of painting this, but I'm getting really tired that the only nice thing people ever have to say about my art is that I'm good at polishing it up. I'm not trying to spite those people by leaving something half-assed to show them up. If this painting is worth it, I want it to be worth it for a reason other than ten wasted hours of painstakingly fixing the textures and tiny flaws and details. And when it's not worth it, I want why it isn't to be open, rather than swept under the desk to rot in secret until someone wonders what that smell is.

Polishing is something you do (even if it's subconsciously, like I often am guilty of) to hide flaws in a painting from people without a good enough eye to see them easily. If anyone thinks this is crappier than my other paintings for not being polished, I'd like them to consider that it's not; you can't call a car crap for having a bad paintjob if it runs well, and to some extent I'm tired of driving the artistic clunker that's been lovingly hand-waxed. This isn't a permanent thing, and for commissions I'm obviously going to do the thing people like, but for something for myself I wanted to take it for a spin to stop once the functional part of the painting was done (and well more than done, in some parts).

I'm sorry to always talk so much here. I feel like people are probably viewing for the art, not for my neuroticisms, but I feel like I need to explain to anyone who might value a completely superficial trait in my art that this picture didn't get less love than my others. ...except in the historical research department where I'm sure I got the sleeves wrong but I lost the reference picture I drew the original design from so I'm not sure now. =|

Trying to draw some more. Green ones are from last night, and pink from today. Tried to fetch credit out of my history today, but I'm pretty sure I didn't find one of the green ones. D=

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