today is a day for mostly drawing

i have an old kofi doodle request that i need to do but I've been unfortunately monsterbrained and kept forgetting about it orz will do that first

then: finish the meme redraw of robin for chris

and then hopefully roughs for sim watson and baby bird harry, but we shall see how much juice my arm has left

i would like to also finish lines at least for demon scratch as a treat, b/c that's half done

well, lines are almost done, then the adjusted colors need to be done, so overall it's half-done more like

this hand is very pretty so far, will look even nicer when properly colored

i keep staring at scratch's legs... the movement of skin over the way the different muscles in the thigh flow into each other

i need to snap out of it and work

touches his adductor muscles

had to charge things before starting stuff, went back to looking at what i had so far for meme robin and didn't like how i had drawing her hair spikes or clothes so i completely erased what i'd done for them and redid the hair in a different, much looser way

it's supposed to be a loose sketch comm and unfortunately when i started working on it i got hit hard with the "SOMEONE PAID FOR THIS IT NEEDS TO BE POLISHED" mentality, which is wrong in this case

especially b/c thanks to overworking it the first time i was working on it, i will essentially have been paid $3/hr for the work i'm doing, alas, which is the risk i always take with sketch comms

and it's fine b/c it's fun and i need to give myself more allowance to be loose with art and learn to be faster

but also knowing i overwork stuff and will essentially make pennies for the effort makes executive dysfunction go brrr

anyway, rambling done, time to flip back to the other thing i said i was going to work on before meme robin

ko-fi doodle done

That's so cute!!!! MUSCLES

MUSCLES

i'm so out of practice w/drawing ladies but this was still fun even though i wish i had more time to finesse the anatomy (but it was a $6 doodle so i didn't want to overwork it)

realizing now i should have done a full-body skeleton to get the shoulder-waist-hip ratio right, THEN blow it up to where it's cropped in the composition, o well

me: okay, i took a break, why is my motivation lagging?

me: oh, i should probably eat

ipad died was about 90% done with meme robin

i have spent about 8 hrs on it so far.... orz

i really don't like doing busts because they always get priced by other artists as cheaper than a full body but i always feel like i HAVE to put in as much work and detail into them as i do into a full-body drawing, and i have been trying to tell myself "no, this was supposed to be loose silly sketches, so don't do that"

and the result is that i have made them more simplified (though not as much as i did for the sample page i did with naphilpooka alan), BUT i keep looking at the simple lines and getting mad at myself so now i'm overworking the coloring to compensate

unfortunately if i'm gonna do a bust portrait for a character i wanna make it like..... super nice which'd be like.... 12+ hrs of work and even at a lowball wage of $10/hr, no one's gonna wanna pay $120+ for a bust

anyway, lamenting the value of my art

ipad's dead, time to be morose

S̸C̴R̴A̸T̵C̴H̵ joked that I should have made the censor box bigger, to which i said "i did consider doing it (on Alan's too) - to cultivate mystique"

remembered that little joke, thought it was funny enough to share

cnfndndnd still dying about that