Unhelpful Tutorial

Hello, everyone! I am too lazy to write long ramblings and ponderings on things. In fact, I do not even have ponderings at the moment. Hence I shall show you a bit of the process of something I managed to create yesterday.

1. Watch an artistically inspiring video that makes you have ALL THE FEELS.



2. Feel a huge urge to draw something that comes from the heart but realize that you have no idea what to draw and the empty canvas on your computer screen is there to taunt you.

3. The need to do art cannot be shooed away, possibly has something to do with the fact that you watched that video two more times. So you end up drawing something random that isn't as full of creative energy that you hoped it would be, but you keep at it anyways because you figure it's better than doing anything useful.

4. Well here you go, you now have magically created line art, and a background you will not use because you are too lazy to shade the drawing to match that particular background and its painterly nature. You were also too lazy to use anatomical references for the head and the wings and you are painfully aware of that...but you wing it anyways. (oooo pun!)

5. Decide that you only like the circled part of the drawing.

6. Zoom in and begin to color with a shade of yellow that took you ten minutes to pick. Wonder what you are doing with your life.

7. Getting to this point took you way too long. Begin to wonder if you could pass this as a finished piece. Decide that no, this piece cannot pass as a finished piece. Whine about things to a person you have been talking to the whole time on msn. Also discuss what the shade of yellow you are using reminds you of. Proceed to watch two episodes of Friends.

8. Return to the drawing that annoys you and poke it again.

9. Somehow, art has happened. Proceed to post everywhere on the internet.




(click to see the finished piece)
10. Post a blog entry about it and fake work-in-progress shots convincingly. Go to the fridge and demand sustenance.