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WIP - Elayne Bridal Dress
🕑 Added 2024-08-21 04:04:41 +0000 UTCThe recent voting polls featured an option to dress Elayne in an outfit - and most patrons voted to see her in a Wedding Dress. These flowers look pretty detailed, so I wonder if I'll try to clean them up a bit - though I think interesting details like this can help elevate my otherwise simple art style.
I don't typically show works-in-progress, because it doesn't usually feel like "good content" to me, but I don't think I necessarily need to think that way. Plus, it's a good way to keep you informed of what's going on while also giving me opportunities to just talk (a rarity in recent years on Patreon).
Although I worry about speed, I guess I don't need to feel pressured to work so hard all the time by adhering to this strict regiment of producing X amount of artworks within Y time period and then only uploading those higher quality finished artworks.
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Recent problems with Patreon aside, I've felt pretty tired lately (though this has been obvious for a few years). I've also talked about feeling dispassionate about art for at least a year too. I wonder if this is what getting old feels like...
It's often quite hard to create art & feel passionate about it these days. Especially when I have to balance that with providing value to hundreds of consumers and navigating the ecosystem made by social media & payment processors. I'm sure most people think about this on some level, but I have never quite understood this feeling as much as I do now, where simply drawing can feel a bit impossible sometimes. The act of creating feels so different than it used to back when I was just a small artist on tumblr almost a decade ago.
Though I suspect I've also created a difficult & unsustainable process for myself, thinking back on just how often people would praise my insanely quick output and long working hours...
Anyway, that's it for now. How do you feel about getting more works-in-progress or posts that are dedicated to a single artwork, accompanied with a bit of text? We used to do that kinda thing but stopped once I pivoted toward frequently updating sketch collections.
Don't forget to eat & sleep.
Comments
Blanko2
you have always had massively high output but i follow you for your art, period. i also love the ones where you take longer or do a different style or more painterly.
megamanfour
WIPs are fine! I love your art. This is coming along quite well! Though I am a huge mark for Elayne so that’s maybe not surprising.
Bob Dasyati
I am 100% in favour of seeing more WIPs. Elayne looks lovely here :)
Anthony Docimo
ditto
Anthony Docimo
i rather like Elayne like this...she's very sweet and this lets her be expressive; great work!
Shawn Heatherly
I love a good WIP.
LoreNut_Nor
More WIP is good.
Ethan Moreno
To go along with this message, I love how this wedding dress looks on Elayne! The way it's drawn, it reminds me of the wedding dress that Bridal Lyn wears in Fire Emblem Heroes. Plus, the roses and how detailed they are, despite it being a WIP, they look very spectacular! 😉👌💖
Ethan Moreno
I like reading what you have to say! You have a lot on your mind and you want to express to us, even if it can get repetitive. It justs shows that you're living life as everyone else is, but you're experiencing it differently as you are a NSFW Artist.
