Drawesome Prompt #45 (Negative Space)

[eye_of_toad]

I've done some cool things with negative space before so this month's drawesome prompt should be right up my alley. I feel a little meh about this first attempt though. The proportions are off, the composition is terrible, there was no plan at all with the color scheme.

I've been saying for ages that I want to practice my figure drawing and I think this a good exercise to do it with, so hopefully I'll get one or two more done soon and have something else to post.

(I need to dig around and see if I can find any of those older drawings with negative space that I think were cool.)

Comments

[ride_4ever]

You are too hard on yourself (but so are many of us artists and writers -- for instance, the first sex-scene fic that I wrote some ten years ago is in my opinion so badly written that I just want to delete it from AO3, but it got positive comments and kudos so obviously some fen did not think it's as bad as I think it is).

Anyways, I actually really love this here piece of your art. My experience of it is that it bursts joyfully from the page with vibrant grace and cheerful light and happy motion and appealing color.

yay for chocolate stout!

[eye_of_toad]

The problem with any creative project is that the thing you make never quite lives up to the idea you had in your head when you started it so there's always this sense of "not good enough".

Re: yay for chocolate stout!

[ride_4ever]

So true!

(And I've moved on from the chocolate stout to the peanut butter porter.)