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HELLO I MAKE THINGS

SO UHM yeah this horrible thing is my first attempt at drawing anything in what feels like four billion years. I certainly didn't mean to spend so much time on it and I'm not all that pleased with the result — technically there's a huge amount wrong with it and I'm very clearly demonstrating a complete disregard and/or ignorance of lighting and colour theory. The character feels pretty "pasted on" and doesn't really fit that well with the scenery, which is principally because the backdrop was a last minute addition and painted after the fact and I'm too stupid to figure out how to light things properly. Thusly, it looks like arse water.

this actually started as a bunch of abstract shapes scrawled onto a canvas, and I just kind of picked shapes out and kept drawing into it until I ended up with something that was vaguely humanoid. The background was a complete accident and certainly the first time I've tried any kind of scenery... hence why it sucks. I feel I could potentially have done something much more interesting with the design but I guess I'm just not that imaginative!

To be honest it's my very first attempt at painting anything digitally and really just wanted to do SOMETHING to get me back into making things again. I'm hoping to use this year to really educate myself properly in this kind of thing and I just thought it would be interesting to stick this up here as a kind of "HERE IS HOW I STARTED WITH NO FORMAL EDUCATION OR PRIOR PRACTICE" thing and, hopefully, have something of a milestone to measure progress against.

... that sounds really pretentious, sorry!

ANYWAY, I could certainly have spent a lot longer on this but it was making me want to chew my own face off so HERE IT IS FEEL FREE TO LAUGH AT ME
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I looove how monstrous this creature looks. And to me it totally doesn't look like it's just been pasted onto that background. Definitely looks like he belongs among it =P