Oh man, that really is the BEST comment ever (wait, are you just buttering me up so I'll agree to be your home-made ice-cream guinea pig? GOD. FINE THEN I SUPPOSE), hearing I'm making some improvement is awesome. I'm still using references, but for specific body parts and sort of piecing everything together and filling in the gaps, rather than relying heavily on one reference (and bless Channing Tatum for all his nude/semi-nude modelling photos, reassuring me he really does have freakishly long limbs).
I have a small confession though. That last picture? I may have spent several hours trying to figure out horse backside perspective, tack, baggage, rider position, failing, working myself into a foul, miserable mood, then deciding I should just bloody well cheat for once before I determined whether the tablet or the computer would shatter first upon violent contact with the other. So uh, that foreground horse? Mostly traced. I wanted to finish it and get back to my videogame. THERE, NO NEED TO HATE ME.
My plan for the two weeks I have off in between here and the PhD is to knuckle down with that Loomis book and start working my way through. Other plans for that fortnight are packing up everything, moving up to Glasgow, reading about 20 papers for the PhD, seeing my parents, working on my Inception Big Bang art/Downton Abbey threesome art, seeing my parents, cleaning, a wedding. Too optimistic, you think?
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Date: 2012-03-27 11:17 pm (UTC)I have a small confession though. That last picture? I may have spent several hours trying to figure out horse backside perspective, tack, baggage, rider position, failing, working myself into a foul, miserable mood, then deciding I should just bloody well cheat for once before I determined whether the tablet or the computer would shatter first upon violent contact with the other. So uh, that foreground horse? Mostly traced. I wanted to finish it and get back to my videogame. THERE, NO NEED TO HATE ME.
My plan for the two weeks I have off in between here and the PhD is to knuckle down with that Loomis book and start working my way through. Other plans for that fortnight are packing up everything, moving up to Glasgow, reading about 20 papers for the PhD, seeing my parents, working on my Inception Big Bang art/Downton Abbey threesome art, seeing my parents, cleaning, a wedding. Too optimistic, you think?