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Fluctuations
Feb. 11th, 2005 08:48 pmWow. I did NOT realize, until I went back through my sketchbook, how much my art style fluctuates. Now, I'll admit that I went back to some pages and took advantage of extra free space to draw more, so it's not exactly in chronological order. But, for some of the stuff, I KNOW when I did it in relation to other stuff, so I can tell the differences and fluctuations.
Like my eye style. This has been the biggest fluctuator. My original eye style is the most realistic (I don't have any real good sketches left of it, though). Then it changed to anime eye style, but still semi-realistic, with a pupil in the center and iris around it and whites off to the sides with hints of rounding around the iris. Then I lost my ability to draw faces for a while (can't say I ever really had one, but this was worse). Then the eyes returned, this time with irises either missing or smaller. Eye size fluctuated SO MUCH after that, and so did style. I stared doing a no-pupil thing with dark edges around the iris. Some of these actually look pretty good. This is where chronology gets really muddled.. anyway, I'm pretty sure I moved on to this neat tri-/quadruple-shade style with a dark amoeba-like area on top, a light area in the bottom left corner, a shady area in the bottom right corner, and shine in the upper right. It sounds weird, but it looks good. Then I started experimenting with a shady pupil-less style that shades from dark to light, bottom right to top left, and is great for characters with fewer/more angsty emotions. But then I stared over-using it. But, anyway, the point is that the greatest commonality among all my sketches is that the style changes. There will be groups of one style then groups of another juxtaposed as my style changes randomly. Having a small background in biology, I begin to think of transposons. Darn Biology class.
But the BIGGEST, absolute BIGGEST example of my drawing fluctuation is this one page I have. As far as I know, I did it all at once. And the style fluctuates so much you'd never believe it. There's faces shaped like masks, alien-looking styles, kinda-good but off, artistic, poor, I-don't-even-know-if-that's-supposed-to-be-human, and really good. All in the same day. It's nuts.
Should I try to get my style under control?
Like my eye style. This has been the biggest fluctuator. My original eye style is the most realistic (I don't have any real good sketches left of it, though). Then it changed to anime eye style, but still semi-realistic, with a pupil in the center and iris around it and whites off to the sides with hints of rounding around the iris. Then I lost my ability to draw faces for a while (can't say I ever really had one, but this was worse). Then the eyes returned, this time with irises either missing or smaller. Eye size fluctuated SO MUCH after that, and so did style. I stared doing a no-pupil thing with dark edges around the iris. Some of these actually look pretty good. This is where chronology gets really muddled.. anyway, I'm pretty sure I moved on to this neat tri-/quadruple-shade style with a dark amoeba-like area on top, a light area in the bottom left corner, a shady area in the bottom right corner, and shine in the upper right. It sounds weird, but it looks good. Then I started experimenting with a shady pupil-less style that shades from dark to light, bottom right to top left, and is great for characters with fewer/more angsty emotions. But then I stared over-using it. But, anyway, the point is that the greatest commonality among all my sketches is that the style changes. There will be groups of one style then groups of another juxtaposed as my style changes randomly. Having a small background in biology, I begin to think of transposons. Darn Biology class.
But the BIGGEST, absolute BIGGEST example of my drawing fluctuation is this one page I have. As far as I know, I did it all at once. And the style fluctuates so much you'd never believe it. There's faces shaped like masks, alien-looking styles, kinda-good but off, artistic, poor, I-don't-even-know-if-that's-supposed-to-be-human, and really good. All in the same day. It's nuts.
Should I try to get my style under control?
