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EDIT* Screwed with the background until I actually liked it.*

This is how I deal with art block: I go back into all the bullcrap sketches and failed art and pay particular attention to the last successful sketch. Then I look at them and remember which one was the most fun and I develop it into something. Generally that loosens things. In the case of this one, it was actually clogging my system and I had to get it out of my head. That's my remedy for it ... even though it only works about half the time ... but hey, it's something to try.

As the creative worlds in my house merge, I am fortunate enough to have the opportunity to go back through the archives and dig up a lot of old and mostly-forgotten things. The recent subject has been alien races fit to integrate to the larger universe.

Which brings me to the Jinnar. This fella' here is Taiossu and he's really the only one to have been of much note. He was put together so early in my character creation process that he had a lot of fan DNA to him. I am relieved that when I found him again, a good deal of that had been exercised. Good. That crap can be so cumbersome and I am glad to have it gone.

They are a tribal people who have been through their technological renaissance, come out the other side and figured they were better off without all of that fancy stuff. If need be, they could activate the ships, weapons, communication equipment and other tech (that would make a better part of the universe drool in envy); but they don't want ... at all. They are not proud of the people they were or the way they lived under the technological influence. And while they will never forget their past, they have lived happily without it for at least thirty generations.

Only one of them has ever left their home world, and he did it for one simple reason: Because his wife could not. She had a fascination with the worlds beyond their own (she was descended from great explorers) but was struck with an illness and was not able to leave the region in which she lived. Seeing how much she wanted to see other places, her mate decided to go for her and to return to her every so often with stories and objects from other worlds. He's the guy pictured here.

In his travels, Taiossu has been everything from a slave to the highest adviser to a king of an empire. And in his hundreds of years abroad, he has sent home the treasures of far-flung worlds and returned to her as often as he could to retell his adventures her and to the people of all the villages who couldn't wait to hear where he had been.

In bringing his story up to date, I learned of the death of his wife. He travels still, but doesn't know when he'll go back, if ever. And here he is in the purple-leaved tree he sent to her when he left on his first trip ... wish I knew what he was thinking.

I know many of you watch me for hot guys or whatever and that I may lose watchers for this one. I hope you can keep an open mind, here. Sometimes I have to stretch my art legs a bit and try something new and different or my art would become stagnant and I would go crazy. In pushing ahead and making new characters in new worlds, it's very important to remember where you've been. I realized that this week when reading about someone's utter frustration with people who have fan characters. We were all there once. I was there, and I will be the first to admit it. Have I moved on? Yes. But as a group of creative individuals here on DA, it's something I think most of us have in common. So acknowledge them. Go back and give them some love. You wouldn't be where you are today without them and the lessons they taught you as you were taking your first steps into true character creation. For that they are just as valuable as a purely created OC (if there really is such a thing).

I'll tell you two secrets:

1. The people who rail and rant the hardest against fan characters (such as I did) are the ones who have one or two tucked away in their hearts somewhere and still hold them dear. It's a prime example of protesting too much. They put up such a fuss because they have something to hide ... and they shouldn't.

2. Digital painting is F**K'IN HARD!!

Taiossu, the Jinnar and art (C) *NuisanceBearEull

Description
EDIT* Screwed with the background until I actually liked it.*

This is how I deal with art block: I go back into all the bullcrap sketches and failed art and pay particular attention to the last successful sketch. Then I look at them and remember which one was the most fun and I develop it into something. Generally that loosens things. In the case of this one, it was actually clogging my system and I had to get it out of my head. That's my remedy for it ... even though it only works about half the time ... but hey, it's something to try.

As the creative worlds in my house merge, I am fortunate enough to have the opportunity to go back through the archives and dig up a lot of old and mostly-forgotten things. The recent subject has been alien races fit to integrate to the larger universe.

Which brings me to the Jinnar. This fella' here is Taiossu and he's really the only one to have been of much note. He was put together so early in my character creation process that he had a lot of fan DNA to him. I am relieved that when I found him again, a good deal of that had been exercised. Good. That crap can be so cumbersome and I am glad to have it gone.

They are a tribal people who have been through their technological renaissance, come out the other side and figured they were better off without all of that fancy stuff. If need be, they could activate the ships, weapons, communication equipment and other tech (that would make a better part of the universe drool in envy); but they don't want ... at all. They are not proud of the people they were or the way they lived under the technological influence. And while they will never forget their past, they have lived happily without it for at least thirty generations.

Only one of them has ever left their home world, and he did it for one simple reason: Because his wife could not. She had a fascination with the worlds beyond their own (she was descended from great explorers) but was struck with an illness and was not able to leave the region in which she lived. Seeing how much she wanted to see other places, her mate decided to go for her and to return to her every so often with stories and objects from other worlds. He's the guy pictured here.

In his travels, Taiossu has been everything from a slave to the highest adviser to a king of an empire. And in his hundreds of years abroad, he has sent home the treasures of far-flung worlds and returned to her as often as he could to retell his adventures her and to the people of all the villages who couldn't wait to hear where he had been.

In bringing his story up to date, I learned of the death of his wife. He travels still, but doesn't know when he'll go back, if ever. And here he is in the purple-leaved tree he sent to her when he left on his first trip ... wish I knew what he was thinking.

I know many of you watch me for hot guys or whatever and that I may lose watchers for this one. I hope you can keep an open mind, here. Sometimes I have to stretch my art legs a bit and try something new and different or my art would become stagnant and I would go crazy. In pushing ahead and making new characters in new worlds, it's very important to remember where you've been. I realized that this week when reading about someone's utter frustration with people who have fan characters. We were all there once. I was there, and I will be the first to admit it. Have I moved on? Yes. But as a group of creative individuals here on DA, it's something I think most of us have in common. So acknowledge them. Go back and give them some love. You wouldn't be where you are today without them and the lessons they taught you as you were taking your first steps into true character creation. For that they are just as valuable as a purely created OC (if there really is such a thing).

I'll tell you two secrets:

1. The people who rail and rant the hardest against fan characters (such as I did) are the ones who have one or two tucked away in their hearts somewhere and still hold them dear. It's a prime example of protesting too much. They put up such a fuss because they have something to hide ... and they shouldn't.

2. Digital painting is F**K'IN HARD!!

Taiossu, the Jinnar and art (C) *NuisanceBearEull