A brief rant.... When
marketing yourself they like to say display your strengths and downplay your
weaknesses. Downplaying them doesn't
overcome them does it? I believe in
being honest with myself as an artist even when that honesty might cost me some
potential business. One of the
healthiest things I can do as an individual is know my limitations and try and
improve on them. I say this because there
are moment where I don’t think I'll never get the hang of backgrounds. I always like getting feedback even if does
screw me up mentally. I've been told
that my pencils are too rough and have to get better with my backgrounds. Been trying that with my pages (not sure if
you noticed), but I'm starting to notice the tighter I try and make my pencils
the more I drive myself crazy trying to fill up the page instead doing what I
need to do, tell the story. The characters (figures) are cake but I'm breaking
my face to depict their surrounding environments. The question every artist
asks themself "is are my pencils conveying the words PROPERLY?" "Am I TELLING THE STORY?" Regardless of how rough they look, if I, my
writer, and my editor all say "Yes" then I can put that page away
(for a brief time at least), move on and drive myself a little crazier on the
next one. Just wanted to get that out. PEACE. J
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