/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>8870065
Thank you. I do sketches on pencil, and then manipulate them digitaly to later work on refined versions and composition. For the final work, I use a mix of watercolour, ink, coffee (makes an awesome dum, but we must be careful with it), coloring pencils and sometimes a bit of acrylic for highlights (though I try to avoid that last one whenever possible).

>>8870567

>Although I work really hard on something, I always end up convincing myself it's shit and give up.
I know that feel. Sometimes, though, I think it is shit only when it's finished; you know: when something that looked promising in sketch (or line-work) ends up looking terrible. In those cases, I simply take a breath, give it a rest, and then start over again, over the same idea, to try to render it cleanly this time (sometimes it's worth it; sometimes not).

>I want to finish a picture right away. I have patience with everything else, except drawing. How do you guys do it?
I guess I just realized that, personally, I simply can't get there right away; that I'll always have to go trough a slow process of elaborating, selecting, doing dummies and cleansing, if I long to get any minimally decent results (hopefully). Also, for good or bad, I do not draw a lot; sketches are one thing, but I rather have fewer but better finished works, than a lot of average ones; for at least I myself can't do both.