Week 004p (260112)

Afilagrèlh Beyond, Wake Up The Permafrost, thumbnail sketch

hi hi, here's the posts from this week ! i'm not quite done with the Maldretaldre piece yet, but these have been a lot of fun ! the afilagrèlh piece was ah, not really satisfying last week, so i'm glad i was able to clean it up & make it something to be decently proud of.

That old blasphemy of cooperation, taken beyond what the ancients had even considered alive. It was hardly like anyone cared anymore -- it was as though one atom of water rippled the "wrong way".

the pieces this week have made me process that i'm not quite satisfied with my current approach to painting. i think there's a lot of expression lost in certain parts of the workflow, & it still isn't as efficient as i'd like. that, & i don't believe the foundations i put in front of myself to be as reliable as i'd like. but i have been branching out into more experimental stuff slowly as i can, seeing what i can do differently. i think a lot of it is that i still don't understand underpainting as much as i should, nor the place that linework plays in that. as you can likely tell if you open the files, the sketches for each of these are fairly decently defined -- but more than what is necessary for something that will be painted over. i'm rambling now eehee, there's a lot of thinking to do.

anyhow, thanks for stopping by this week !