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buffshelI watched a YT video of Duchess Celestia's recently in which she talked about productivity for artists (specifically for digital artists, as digital art is her regular medium). She brought up something she referred to as 'batching' that I think I'm going to try. This is where a digital artist works on multiple 'batches' of art at once. Sketching multiple pieces on a certain day, lining multiple pieces on another day, and the same for flats/color, and the same as well for rendering. The benefits would be:
a) not having to pivot between skillsets: sketching, lining, and color/render are very different from each other on a technical level. (And lining is the bane of my existence).
b) to work on multiple illustrations will prevent me from looking at the same image for too long and getting bogged down in details that don't matter. It might prevent getting sick of my own work as well: sometimes if I look at something I made for too long, I start to hate it.
I do something similar with my writing where I 'hop' from project to project and allow myself to write things out of order. It is a less rigid practice than if I were to work on only one project at a time.
I still am thinking of where to display my work. I do plan to go ahead with printing and displaying some in my apartment, but I also have work that is better suited to an online space (i.e. fanart, niche, kink, etc.). Toying with using Zonelets (freely available code for building a simple blog on neocities) or else some other available blog theme/template base to post my art and maybe some of my red dead online screenshots, too. Someplace free of likes, reblogs, or criticisms in the comments. I prefer a more contemplative space for my art, so this is what is most attractive to me at the moment.
I liked building/coding cultoverkinski, but it was rough going. I've learned so much in coding it, but for my art space I'd rather spend more time making art and taking screenshots than in building a whole other site interface from scratch. The good news is that my knowledge built in coding the film blog definitely comes in handy in terms of customizing my dreamwidth page and in tweaking any template I make use of.
Maybe now that all my Christmas shopping and theater work is over, I'll actually be able to get some things done! Tentative to-dos include:
1. setting up an art/screenshot blog.
2. uploading more posts to cultoverkinski.
3. more art!
I also have plans to read some books on writing craft over the holiday (if they arrive on time).
a) not having to pivot between skillsets: sketching, lining, and color/render are very different from each other on a technical level. (And lining is the bane of my existence).
b) to work on multiple illustrations will prevent me from looking at the same image for too long and getting bogged down in details that don't matter. It might prevent getting sick of my own work as well: sometimes if I look at something I made for too long, I start to hate it.
I do something similar with my writing where I 'hop' from project to project and allow myself to write things out of order. It is a less rigid practice than if I were to work on only one project at a time.
I still am thinking of where to display my work. I do plan to go ahead with printing and displaying some in my apartment, but I also have work that is better suited to an online space (i.e. fanart, niche, kink, etc.). Toying with using Zonelets (freely available code for building a simple blog on neocities) or else some other available blog theme/template base to post my art and maybe some of my red dead online screenshots, too. Someplace free of likes, reblogs, or criticisms in the comments. I prefer a more contemplative space for my art, so this is what is most attractive to me at the moment.
I liked building/coding cultoverkinski, but it was rough going. I've learned so much in coding it, but for my art space I'd rather spend more time making art and taking screenshots than in building a whole other site interface from scratch. The good news is that my knowledge built in coding the film blog definitely comes in handy in terms of customizing my dreamwidth page and in tweaking any template I make use of.
Maybe now that all my Christmas shopping and theater work is over, I'll actually be able to get some things done! Tentative to-dos include:
1. setting up an art/screenshot blog.
2. uploading more posts to cultoverkinski.
3. more art!
I also have plans to read some books on writing craft over the holiday (if they arrive on time).
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