Art: Favete Linguis [Inception]
Oct. 23rd, 2012 06:25 pmSo.
You know when you take a silly little Roman AU sketch and decide that instead of cleaning it up and colouring it simply you'll do a proper painting and it won't take you more than a few weeks, and then three months later you're tearing your hair out and have gone from worrying about getting the armour historically correct and the swords on the right side for their rank (which is ridiculous as you don't even know what rank Arthur's supposed to be, you cobbled his outfit together from Rome screencaps) to trying to sneak paisley and totems in wherever you can, and you probably should have ceased worrying about historical accuracy the moment you gave Eames that side-parting, and dear god if there's one thing you're going to learn from this it's that you should never, ever attempt something so complicated and fiddly without decent references, and you end up working on this stupid thing for so long that you genuinely have no idea whether it's okay or a complete disaster but if you don't call it finished and post it to LJ you'll probably delete it in a fit of rage, and it takes you two whole days to overcome your shame and hit that Post button, and the bit about it you're most proud of is how you didn't end up grovelling at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sineala's feet until she translated "dream a little bigger" into Latin for your title, and the bit you're most disappointed with is how you couldn't get the horse looking like Cobb because apparently Mr DiCaprio doesn't have a very equine-like face and really, a squinting horse just looks ridiculous?
Yeah.
Next time I draw something so time-consuming, there'd better be more gratuitous nudity.
A million thanks go togoblin_dae and demon_rum for their invaluable advice, nitpicking, paint-overs and hand-holding; without their help this would be even more ridiculous than it already is.
( Arthur and Eames as um, Roman soldiers. )
You know when you take a silly little Roman AU sketch and decide that instead of cleaning it up and colouring it simply you'll do a proper painting and it won't take you more than a few weeks, and then three months later you're tearing your hair out and have gone from worrying about getting the armour historically correct and the swords on the right side for their rank (which is ridiculous as you don't even know what rank Arthur's supposed to be, you cobbled his outfit together from Rome screencaps) to trying to sneak paisley and totems in wherever you can, and you probably should have ceased worrying about historical accuracy the moment you gave Eames that side-parting, and dear god if there's one thing you're going to learn from this it's that you should never, ever attempt something so complicated and fiddly without decent references, and you end up working on this stupid thing for so long that you genuinely have no idea whether it's okay or a complete disaster but if you don't call it finished and post it to LJ you'll probably delete it in a fit of rage, and it takes you two whole days to overcome your shame and hit that Post button, and the bit about it you're most proud of is how you didn't end up grovelling at
sineala's feet until she translated "dream a little bigger" into Latin for your title, and the bit you're most disappointed with is how you couldn't get the horse looking like Cobb because apparently Mr DiCaprio doesn't have a very equine-like face and really, a squinting horse just looks ridiculous?Yeah.
Next time I draw something so time-consuming, there'd better be more gratuitous nudity.
A million thanks go to
goblin_dae and demon_rum for their invaluable advice, nitpicking, paint-overs and hand-holding; without their help this would be even more ridiculous than it already is.( Arthur and Eames as um, Roman soldiers. )
