More Art Of Characters From The Webcomic Haru-Sari.

More art of characters from the webcomic Haru-Sari.

Everything about this picture took freakishly forever, but I'm trying to be happy with it. I think it really is the best thing I've done thus far, by a lot.

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.

Stock referenced from lockstock.deviantart.com

I did these quite a bit ago and didn't post them because I was being a pussy about how bad they turned out (the sets before that looked nicer were drawn on a minute, I think, with two of them being 2-minuters). I don't like what my 30-second gestures ever look like because I have cts, and by the time I'm nice and warmed up and can start doing them freely, they become sloppy from the pain or I lose all accuracy in my strokes.

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. =|

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.