Dressing the snowman, and other bad art habits
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:29 pm
I thought it might be useful to have a thread in which to rant about various bad habits we've picked up as artfolk, or any particular thing we might think we suck at. Hopefully we'll be able to swap advice; if not, ranting is fun!
Two things of mine:
1) A bit hard to define, but here goes. I'm working on something, it looks okay, and if I'm sensible I should stop right now. But then I enter that phase called 'I think we should dress the snowmen' and go slowly insane fiddling with the picture. This is a particularly good way to ruin faces.
2) I know I've said this before, but does anyone know how to do all that nice calligraphylike outlining by hand so it comes out crisp and smooth and accurate and not like you had to do it with one inked-up thumb? Because I don't.
Two things of mine:
1) A bit hard to define, but here goes. I'm working on something, it looks okay, and if I'm sensible I should stop right now. But then I enter that phase called 'I think we should dress the snowmen' and go slowly insane fiddling with the picture. This is a particularly good way to ruin faces.
2) I know I've said this before, but does anyone know how to do all that nice calligraphylike outlining by hand so it comes out crisp and smooth and accurate and not like you had to do it with one inked-up thumb? Because I don't.