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NEWS + Patreon Reward: "Late night treat"

Added 2022-11-02 00:20:08 +0000 UTC

1. Today I finally didn't have a fever and I finished this artwork. Yesterday was my last visit to the doctor, so I am cured. Be happy for my tonsils:D

2. Again, I couldn’t really draw anything because of the illness. I decided to focus on treatment this time, as my untreated cold last time led to these complications.

3. This is a combined reward for Biers. Prompt: cunnilingus.

+ b&w version, because I'm not completely satisfied with the colors.

I wanted to make a step-by-step tutorial for this illustration, but I ran into some difficulties. So I will tell you something from the artist's routine.

Some people think that experienced artists (who have been drawing for many years) don't make mistakes \ don't experience difficulties. In fact, mistakes just become more rare. And you already know how to deal with difficulties(thanks to experience) and go through them not as painfully as at the beginning of your creative path.

I regularly experience these or other problems. Usually with a periodicity of times in 10 drawings. This illustration pissed me off. Why? I didn't have a visualization of the finished image in my head. I clearly saw this drawing in the form of lines, but the colors didn't come to my mind. Therefore, I changed colors, lighting, background several times. So this artwork took MUCH MORE time than it could have.

Here are the fixes that I have saved, but there were a lot more of them:

Why did this happen? I was overconfident and skipped the preparation step. How could I avoid it? Prepare reference materials for lighting and decide colors&lighting during the sketch stage.

So, if you are also an artist, then don't despair and don't get upset. Everyone is experiencing difficulties. The main thing is to do conclusions and and develop a strategy for not repeating the same mistakes.

Tip: develop a clear art pipeline and don't deviate from it. Each individual step of work must be completed as perfectly as you can. Don't think that if you don't like something at one stage, you can fix it later. Most likely, this will lead to you doing a lot of extra work.