Hayseed

This writing-instead-of-drawing business is hard!

In an effort to forcibly eject myself from this art slump, I took a mental health day from my other duties, deciding to draw whatever, and to see those whatevers through to completion. (I'm so sick of never finishing anything). To a certain extent it's working, so I may continue for a few more days.

So, here's the first whatever. As Harry Potter taught us, you just can't have enough drawings of young book characters gazing at each other in slashy ways. So I drew Alain and Cuthbert from DT4: Wizard and Glass. This one's for Bruni, as she unintentionally inspired it.

I have sort of a love/hate relationship with this drawing. Love because I finally finished something, and it was fun to color... and hate because it's the most boring composition I can imagine, and I've totally drawn this same composition a thousand times, and it makes me feel like a hack. I also have mixed feelings about my coloring stye. I'm not so good with textures... everything is frustratingly smooth. I feel strangely disposable. Replaceable. Average. My art-ego is small lately. It happens when I don't draw enough. (And I'm about to get a boot to the head for saying so, I just know it.)

What needs to happen is for me to bust out some freakin' awesome comics! That'll fix me up. It always does. (Just gotta finish writin' em first!!)

PS. If you're interested in process sketches and inks, they're posted on my LJ.