Good Enough is Enough

I did this for drawesome challenge #62, but I don't like it enough to bother cleaning it up.



I might play around with the idea again another time when I'm more in the mood.

I have "finished" my wipbigbang art, although I'm now staring at it going, "This looks unfinished." So I'm debating going at it with watercolors after work tomorrow. (I've officially posted the "final" version so it won't matter if I ruin the original drawing if it doesn't work out.)



official cropped version on AO3: art link

plus the story that I was doing the art for: story link

It's a lovely bittersweet story about life just going on after trauma. It's also a lot of day-in-the-life stuff of minor characters from the show, which is a favorite theme of mine.

So I'm getting stuff ready for an art-spam post of sketchbook #6 and it reminded me of how effortless it is to fill up a sketchbook when all you do is copy ... ahem ... do studies of other artists work. Especially when the original artists market themselves towards children. I hated, hated, hated sketchbook #6 (I'll save the details of that rant for that post) and decided that the way to cope was to get it over with as quickly as possible. (I finished an entire sketchbook in a month!) And that meant following a lot of YouTube "How to Draw" tutorials. I started out thinking I was going to take things more seriously and there are a few pages full of studies of noses and ears, et cetera, but it very quickly devolved into tutorials aimed at little kids and I have to tell you that it was the most fun ever.

So yesterday, I decided to set aside the cataloging project and watched a "Draw So Cute" video on how to draw Cinnamoroll. And then when I was done, I looked the character up because I was sure "Cinnamoroll" must be a typo. That can't be how you spell the name of that bunny, right? And I learned that Cinnamoroll is a puppy.


I messed up the paws, but whatever. The best part of art aimed at kids is that even when it turns out wonky, it's still cute.