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Was it a busy month, were you swamped? Did you get the chance to take part in any fandom activities or are you working on any personal art projects? Are you currently trying to meet a deadline? Feel free to share upcoming challenges that have got you excited, any frustrations you've been experiencing, possible goals for the next month, and so on.
Oops, that got long.
Date: 2017-07-31 07:54 pm (UTC)My roughest moment art-wise was challenge #3 - for which I have a half-finished art piece and have got the song. I'm still not happy with the anatomy. It's a side view of a male torso (sitting on stairs, so there's the issue of trouser creases as well) but somehow it doesn't quite look right. I'll try to finish it during amnesty week.
Since challenge #3 frustrated me, I didn't start #4 (and was a bit horrified to learn today that only you had posted for that challenge).
Due to some anxiety issues about going back to work I spent a lot of time reading Steve-Bucky fiction. Fortunately that inspired me to do (challenge-unrelated) art which I posted in my journal today (4 art pieces in total).
I am happiest with the last one, but in another I played around with pastels (it was mostly an exercise in moody backgrounds) which was cool. I love colour, but so often I work in small formats where pastels are not fine enough to use, and I feel like I lack skills in that department.
Also, there's an unfinished Star Wars art waiting to be completed, I did some reference search into head-turns and tilts, but that's a project I've put onto the backburner for now.
Phew. What about you guys?
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Date: 2017-07-31 08:06 pm (UTC)Re: Oops, that got long.
Date: 2017-07-31 08:24 pm (UTC)alby_mangroves is my pastel hero
OMG, can I take a moment to flail and fangirl over her talents and amazingness?? ♥______♥ I am in awe at how prolific she is, and also her skill with getting realistic textures, and her use of colour. I'm always so inspired by her art.
Wow, it's so great that you're been inspired to create Steve/Bucky fanart. One of the nice side-effects of reading fic sometimes. I'll go check it out. :)
And cool to know you've got a WiP going for the song lyric challenge.
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Date: 2017-07-31 08:31 pm (UTC)Yes, and fiction most often inspires me to art - reading a well-written scene makes the images pop into my head and then I have to draw them. :-)
The WIP is Bucky by the way :-)
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Date: 2017-07-31 08:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-31 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-31 08:50 pm (UTC)I'm hoping to catch up soon when real life settles down a bit more.
Yeah, most important is to take care of yourself whenever you can. Glad you're keeping in touch with us here. :)
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Date: 2017-07-31 08:55 pm (UTC)Re: Oops, that got long.
Date: 2017-07-31 08:57 pm (UTC)Niiiice. ;)
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Date: 2017-07-31 09:45 pm (UTC)In the meantime, I'm working on my art for the Wincest big bang (just coming up with ideas at the moment), a quickybang piece (J2 pirates, yay!), an idea for a Dr Who TARDIS art, and two more hares for the Norwich GoGo Hares trail next year. I've submitted three designs and have until 28th August to get my final ones done and sent. Oh and I did manage two J2 Reverse bang arts and a couple of pictures of Wash to get something signed at the LFCC by Alan Tudyk, so actually, July was a bit more productive than I'd thought! Huzzah!
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Date: 2017-07-31 09:47 pm (UTC)Re: Oops, that got long.
Date: 2017-07-31 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-31 10:16 pm (UTC)Also, it's really cool that you're getting your Wash pictures signed by Alan himself. *___*
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Date: 2017-07-31 10:27 pm (UTC)Maybe we should have a post sometime where we link to artists we admire and what specifically we like about their art, or what particular skill we like, or learn from. Like for me, alby's use of pastel layering (she has a tutorial which could go into our resource post in the future here).
And I remember there was a comm like "meet the artist" or something on LJ i think? Where artists were profiled and they talked about their process and materials etc. That could go in our resource post, too since there'd be tons of cool links and how-tos and so on.
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Date: 2017-07-31 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-31 10:35 pm (UTC)Some clueless questions: what is GISHWHES and LFCC? (L for London I guess, C, some kind of convention?)
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Date: 2017-08-01 02:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-08-01 02:25 am (UTC)My problem with the song one is that I have so many songs running through my head. lolol
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Date: 2017-08-01 02:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-08-01 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-08-01 04:39 am (UTC)Mostly I've been working on a fic for Dragon Age remix. 26K and counting, I gotta get this thing finished /o\ I'm looking forward to Remix Revival, fanart remixes are much more my thing but harder to find oppurtunities to do.
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Date: 2017-08-01 07:58 am (UTC)LFCC = London Film & Comic Con and if you scroll down this rambling report you'll see my Alan Tudyk/Wash picture http://amberdreams.livejournal.com/506446.html
GISHWHES = the Greatest International Treasure Hunt the World Has Ever Seen. It's an annual scavenger hunt run by Misha Collins and is pretty mad.
https://youtu.be/_ilvQCK8QuY
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Date: 2017-08-01 08:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-08-01 11:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-08-01 12:07 pm (UTC)Actually, now that I think of it, his voice is similar to Sebastian Stan's, hmmm. Maybe that's why I like it so much.