You know, I'm beginning to learn that the saying is true, you do learn more out of failure and defeat than you do in victory. That loss that I had in the drawing competition kinda hurt my ego...and truthfully, the old me probably would've taken it hard and just given up and not done the competition thing anymore. If I would have won, I probably wouldn't have pushed so hard, and tried something out of my norm, and probably would've been stuck doing the same old same old. The fact of the matter is, I entered the competition to get better, to stop being so lazy with artwork and compositions, and really, just to showcase myself to others as well as myself...finally proving that I can do this if I wanted...which I do. Hopefully, I made that point clear, and if I changed at least one person's opinion about my artwork, then that's a victory for me.
Anyways, I entered that Green Lantern picture in the contest that was posted a couple of posts back. I thought it was a good picture, considering how much time I put into it...but meh, its whatever. It lost unfortunately, and I was sort of bummed. So, I decided to enter the next competition, which has a similar theme, but not so narrow, and decided to try something new and different. And the pic below is what I came up with:
(make sure you click on it to get a bigger view)So now, I'm gonna take this approach with all of my new artwork...just pushing the limit til I get something that I'm proud to look at and say that I drew. And I finally made the 100% jump to Photoshop. Well...this wasn't the first picture, but I'm just saying. I think I'm coming along well with both artwork and coloring...especially based on my first digital color 'attempt' that wasn't too long ago (**shudders**).
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