Help on my Venom art please...

[Anita18]

I know I'll re-draw it but I worked too long on this to just trash it away like worthless crap.

If you know you'll redraw it, then honestly it's a waste of your time to work on it some more, especially if all you're doing is just playing with the inaccurate stuff it already has. I barely see any difference with it, and I had to do a side-by-side comparison to see that the left shoulder now bulges out more. It doesn't help much, really, because a lot of the muscles are simply in the wrong place.

It's not a waste of your time to trash it, and it isn't worthless crap. It may be worthless to other people, but it's a very important learning experience for you, and that certainly isn't worthless at all.

Besides, if it's on Photoshop, you already know the colors you're going to use and what kind of background it's going to have. You could even keep everything else but add an improved Venom in new layer. (Photoshop IMHO makes it easier to be a sissy artist, LOL, since I did mention before that I believe true artists are able to trash pieces they're not satisfied with. With Photoshop, everything is salvageable, but I like the feeling of having a clean slate anyway.) The next one will actually take less time, once you've got the anatomy figured out.

Art is mostly a learning experience, and you do whatever you can to make yourself learn what you need to learn. I frustrate some people since I don't take good care of my finished work. I figure I'll just do a better one later. t: Most people are afraid to do art since they absolutely refuse to do something over even if they don't like it (they say exactly what you say, "I've worked too long on it!"), but that's what doing art MEANS - working and reworking something you don't like UNTIL you're satisfied with it. Don't be afraid of that. Not everything you do will be a masterpiece, and once you free yourself of that fear, art is a lot more fun.

Just yesterday in my perspective class, I worked about an hour on a drawing that I ultimately didn't like the angle on, so I simply did a new drawing with a completely different angle. If I had stubbornly plugged away at the original drawing, I wouldn't have liked the final one anyway, so I figured that it was worth it to do it over. The trick is knowing when you're going down a path you know is wrong, so you can redo it without wasting toooo much time and resources.

Even my lab job has an aspect akin to that - if you drop something into a bottle of media (cell food), you throw it away. No questions, just do it. Each bottle costs about $80, but you simply cannot take the risk of contaminating the cells. Throwing away a bottle of media means that you waste some money and a bit more time making a new bottle, but throwing away a plate of cells means that you've wasted several weeks, maybe even months, of work. The second option could be potentially devastating to a lab, so it's actually worth it to throw away the $80 and 10 minutes of your time.

This is a bit more OT, but my favorite singer/songwriter Tori Amos once deleted the audio tracks of 4 songs, which she had hired a famous string arranger and a 50-piece orchestra to record. (She didn't tell the record company, LOL.) She just didn't like the path the songs were going down, and um, I'll let her tell the rest of the story:

They both looked at me, over weak margaritas with extra salt, and asked if I really wanted to do this, if I really wanted to erase the equivalent of what a medium-sized house in Pomona would cost. Without a doubt, after another lick of salt, I got up, walked next door, and pushed the erase button. It was the most liberating feeling to get rid of something that I felt compromised the songs. I knew if I was willing to do that, I would be okay in life.

That girl's got a lot of guts. t: I would have made a backup at least.

 

[webhead731]

I like my old one. I'm proud in alot of ways. It I didn't like it, then believe me, I wouldn't go on with it anymore. I don't just wanna' pitch it. I still like it.

 

[Vartha]

like I said WH, Hold onto your old stuff, redraw them after a while, you see a big difference as time goes on. Use the old drawings as roughs