I have had a much more productive week recently and I honestly feel like I have a new lease on art. I don’t know if it was because of the volunteer work or the fact that I’m now starting to get more accustomed to working at home (probably a combination of the two). I just feel like some sort of mental barrier has just been cleared. I don’t know what or why but I’m not complaining. I’m just happy to know I’ve been able to take on more as well as work faster and more efficiently in my art and other endeavors!
That's great, what art did you do?
I made another character design turnaround. This time for my character named Gabe. His design is a little different this time around, with elements of both the first sketch I did of him and the way I drew him for the animation projects. I’m not sure if I’m happy with the color palette. It’s definitely growing on me more since I finished but I’m still not entirely sure what I want his final design to be.
There is definitely elements to it that I want to keep, it’s just about finding out what to add, what to remove, and what to elaborate and expand upon. Fun fact, I first imagined him for like a sort of animation project I never did where it was him and my other character Beck (the blonde hippie dude) talking about a movie. He was kinda supposed to be a parody of like 18-24 film nerd types who watch the most vile or incomprehensible art films you can think of. I don’t know why but I always imagined those people looking like skateboarding stoners or something. Probably thinking of like those older brother characters you see in family films where a younger sibling steals their R rated movie and end up getting nightmares.
I liked the design though and I didn’t want him to be a one off character in fact, the animation project I did end up going with involved a conversation between a couple flirting and because I didn’t have a girl character designed I used him instead. I don’t know why but I imagined him to be gay. Just something in my mind told me I needed to make this guy gay, so I did.
Wow, you sure have a lot to say about this design compared to the last one.
That’s because when I last posted I was horribly depressed about my country’s political climate. I mean I still am but… well I guess I’m just fine right now. It’s probably going to hit me twice as bad when the inauguration happens. But anyways I actually love putting together characters. I never really did the whole OC thing much so being able to do it now is really fun.
I would definitely like to maybe talk more about my previous character design I shared when it’s relevant and there’s definitely more to come. I’m really optimistic and my enthusiasm and energy is almost back to what it was during college. After many years of stress I’m finally feeling like myself again and I’m optimistic about the future. Well, my future as an artist. Everything else I’m kinda worried about.