More Art Of Characters From The Webcomic Haru-Sari.

More art of characters from the webcomic Haru-Sari.

Everything about this picture took freakishly forever, but I'm trying to be happy with it. I think it really is the best thing I've done thus far, by a lot.

Okay, it's finished. Character for James' rp.

Incoming tl;dr, please skip: I can't really articulate why I decided to just skip the second half of painting this, but I'm getting really tired that the only nice thing people ever have to say about my art is that I'm good at polishing it up. I'm not trying to spite those people by leaving something half-assed to show them up. If this painting is worth it, I want it to be worth it for a reason other than ten wasted hours of painstakingly fixing the textures and tiny flaws and details. And when it's not worth it, I want why it isn't to be open, rather than swept under the desk to rot in secret until someone wonders what that smell is.

Polishing is something you do (even if it's subconsciously, like I often am guilty of) to hide flaws in a painting from people without a good enough eye to see them easily. If anyone thinks this is crappier than my other paintings for not being polished, I'd like them to consider that it's not; you can't call a car crap for having a bad paintjob if it runs well, and to some extent I'm tired of driving the artistic clunker that's been lovingly hand-waxed. This isn't a permanent thing, and for commissions I'm obviously going to do the thing people like, but for something for myself I wanted to take it for a spin to stop once the functional part of the painting was done (and well more than done, in some parts).

I'm sorry to always talk so much here. I feel like people are probably viewing for the art, not for my neuroticisms, but I feel like I need to explain to anyone who might value a completely superficial trait in my art that this picture didn't get less love than my others. ...except in the historical research department where I'm sure I got the sleeves wrong but I lost the reference picture I drew the original design from so I'm not sure now. =|

Can't draw productive things w/migraine. For some reason this time the derealization has been very strong and long-lasting, instead of the usual few minutes. I have a few friends who say they're jealous I get aura migraines, idfgi. So much for working on those thumbnails tonight.

Credit: lockstock.deviantart.com

Out of curiosity, what does anyone reading this tumblr prefer seeing (sorry anyone seeing these posts through facebook, you can respond through tumblr maybe?) - sketches, parts of finished pictures, or finished pictures?

SP3 didn't totally bork my computer, at least - by the 3rd try and after messing with my windows services, i got it to work. Jun has insisted I keep drawing this picture, even though the composition is pretty questionable. At this point it'll feel nice just to finish something, so I'm sticking with it.

Stock referenced from lockstock.deviantart.com