Does your creation match your artistic vision?

[NOOR_ASAKZ05]

The same problem applies here: my style suits shoujo and shonen, but it doesn't suit seinen, even though it's considered acceptable.
Everyone says I portray expressions authentically, and that suits the psychological stories I work on.

[NickRowler]

For Frostpeak West, no.

I know I need to do something to change it, which explains the long hiatus. But I am still not 100% sure how to go about doing that.

[Lensing]

That´s really interesting. Do you have a vague idea what you want to improve on?

For me it was pretty much everything because I couldn´t write a story which wouldn´t
end up a confusing mess and I didn´t know how sketch and construct. Zero anatomy
knowledge, I never thought about the term perspective. So I restarted at level zero even
though I already had print comics in the 1980s with my old style.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

No.

Because my vision look like this

And I have no skill nor I am willing to put any effort, so I just do something like this.

How I imagine thing is like this, but the images fade very quickly like flashes. So, it is hard to actually have it matches my vision because. . . What to envision?

Original image of the apple

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I am never a studious or smart person, I do not understand things like artistic theories, I have no discipline; it is borderline impossible to study, practice, and improve my art.
I used to be more openly insecure about my art and the (lack of) attention it get, I used to be more (secretly) competitive and want to arise as a better artist, but it drained me so fast. It also made it feel hard to enjoy or even see art made by other people without feeling down.

I want none of that now, it's stupid, people hate it, I hate it, and I no longer have time and energy for it.

I now take a very selfish and laid-back attitude towards my own art (and to some degree, other people's art). If it's for my own enjoyment, then I should do everything at my own pace and just don't care about other people except some select few.

For now, being able to communicate idea is enough for me. It's probably the ugliest apple you have ever seen. The lack of effort is 100% conscious and deliberate; it was done in a minute and while I could have taken it more seriously, I chose not to. However, you all can see it's a red apple with a yellow streak used to elaborate my point, and it's all that matters.

And don't worry, for a story format, I have found a perfect way to juggle my strange lack of visual imagination and my very laid-back artistic approach. It is called. . . Writing it! Even a simple "Medium sized red apple with a yellow streak on its right side" beats everything.

[BabanIllustration]

Usually no, but sometimes just through experimentation and happy accidents I come up with things that refine the idea and make it better. Something that you can't get by just sitting and thinking. I usually say you can sit around and draw nd you'll eventually excavate something from the canvas that you didn't know was there lol. It's like a sand pit.

[toonben]

Very much. I draw what I envision and the finished art matches my vision. Back then, my rougher art style doesn't live up to my vision as I'm practicing my art.

[jwabeasley]

That´s a problem I´m running in right now. I decided on a style for the print comic I´m workingon right now. I really like colored outlines. The same with water color, my original plan was to redraw the flats with digital water color with texture. I tried it, it looks great but it makes my long work progress even longer.

I totally understand. I love doing lots of little details but I have to remind myself of the time limits for productivity.

[jwabeasley]

Interesting! It must be difficult to do comics with those limitations!

[KennethLopezJr921]

I think it has.....for the most part!

My artistic skills, especially in the past year, has matched how my characters and stories looked like in my head.

In terms of story, its hard to really say due to the fact that things have changed a lot since I first came up with my series and even when Im writing it, sometimes I don't know how to execute a certain plot point, or how characters end up from point A to point B. But I feel like in rewriting stuff Ive written, I can get closer to what I actually wanted to do and maybe even do it better!

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