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PascalCampion — It's just a week
Published: 2018-09-04 18:00:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 9188; Favourites: 465; Downloads: 0
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It's just a week.This is another one I was trying to do all under an hour. Again, I failed. I did manage something in an hour and I am posting that in the comments but I spent another ten minutes noodling with lighting.
When I started doing sketches of the day I was doing everything in under an hour. I was very strict with myself. When I got into Photoshop I stopped doing that because I was trying to figure out how to use that software and I started doing sketches in TWO hours and sometimes a little more than that. What I found was that when I spent more time on them the images were not necessarily better...in some case, they were actually worse. I think it's because then I started focusing too much on details that don't matter ( in the big picture) or worse, I was becoming indecisive with my own art. And I really don't like that feeling.
SO.. here and there I am practicing being more direct with what I do and living with it...and I am realizing that it's harder than I thought.
It wasn't when I started drawing, but as I go along and I get more baggage technically, I have more options and choices... interesting to figure that out!
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What is wrong with 1 hour and 10? It's not rounded neatly to the nearest hour, but if that's how long you need, spend that amount of time on it. The (stunning) results speak for themselves, no shame in spending a few extra minutes making it come up to its full potential. There is some famous quote that works of art are never finished, but abandoned
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This is some of the best looking failure I've seen in a long time.
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I'm currently painting a picture for a friend (she moved in her first own flat). And, as with so many other pictures, I noticed that things work out just fine when I don't overthink them very much. The moment I try to be precise it' starts to bore me and takes a lot more time to look the way I want it to.
I think daring is one of the most important things to do in art. Like Nike said: Just do it!
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... Over work a picture and you kill the spontaneity!
... The art is to know when to stop!
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Such a sweet scene 
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Not giving advice so much as sharing an idea...
What if you approached the piece as intending to create a vignette? Maybe create a mask on the outer boundaries of the image that is set on a different layer that you can't edit. That way it only allows you to work on the central focus of the illustration.
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There are some areas that look too rushed but of course it's a good thing to push yourself because basically making yourself only paint the essence of things instead of individually tweaking each detail separately can result in surprising results that would not have occurred to you if you did everything slowly and calculatingly.
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