♦AUG/SEPT

oh mannnn how have two months gone by so fast yet so excruciatingly slowly. guh....... tis what the start of a semester does to a mf.

honestly i created a surprisingly large amount of finished pieces in these 2 months, but it really doesn't feel like that at all. im p stumped rn cos i remember nOTHING lol. it's all gotta have been from august, i was busy as helllll in september, aint no way.

all in all though, i can say that i've become a lot more confident with using ibis now-- i know which tools i prefer and can replicate a bunch of coloring styles that i *actually* enjoy using, despite not having one i consistently stick with. it's nice to finally know my way around the program, especially after the wimpy flat-colored phase of artwork i produced at the end of june-july. (june-july wasn't even that bad, i just didn't know what kinda art i wanted to make and it frustrated the hell outta me lol.)

but now that that's done and over with, i think the next best step for me is to focus on the basics again. like anatomy, which i feel like ive been getting kinda lazy at in favor of colors and rendering. infact, quite a lotta pieces compiled here actually have either visible anatomy errors or are cases where i had to repaint over them to fix things i didn't catch at first. i've been attempting at getting outta same-face syndrome a LITTLE in doodles i've refrained from sharing. SFS isn't smthn i think is a serious problem (art→ subjective, whateverrrrrr) it's just that, i've discovered lately that when i'm not rendering, i feel BORED when i'm drawing... which isn't great lol. i took it as a sign i need to diversify what i draw more, though we'll see if i follow through on any of that.

OH YEAH, in addition. for once i compressed my images for this batch of artwork ;o; ;o; ;o; i..... didn't used to do that for the other ones. i have decent internet, so images would always load pretty well, so i have no idea if compression did any difference for users w slower internet. hope it does tho. i always get v flustered over altering my images.