[art] emotionally distressed wolves (two illustrations)
14 hours
the mind can be solved (print)
it's not for you (print)
downloaded some new brushes and textures and am attempting to work them into my style, to up my texture game and make drawing feel more effortless. i certainly feel very proud of these two pieces, especially the bottom one which was just finished yesterday, and i felt more excited to finish them than i have other recent illustrations. i love painterly and other analog textures, but don't like working with them as actual colouring techniques because i'm all about precision and discrete shapes when i draw. finding brushes that i can use to "texture" the areas that i fill in with a solid colour feels like a good compromise. (pretty sure i've talked about this already in another art post now that i think about it... i'm a goldfish, sorry!)
the second art is a work that i previewed on my patreon - i posted a timelapse of a sketching session i did when it was raining outside a few weeks ago, which included an early WIP of this. i was feeling a bit out of sorts at the time, and honestly in general i tend to experience a feeling that i am behind a "glass wall" when it comes to the world. that reality is fine china i am not allowed to touch; it is so delicate, and my paws are clumsy. that feeling was probably behind my inspiration for the first art as well, in some way.
i also grew up frequenting a lake by my small town as a kid, and it's something i remember very fondly. the intense nostalgia i have for that place and its visuals informed the second artwork a lot; that feeling of nostalgia is another thing behind that glass wall that feels so precious and fleeting, so disarming, and yet as an adult who struggles to feel like one, it's like i am barely deserving or no longer capable of holding it.