prewind

Just one of the things I do between my schoolworks. Also, my Appreciating Art course has come to an end. The course is more of philosophy than visual art. It does change my perspective towards art and make me think about things I wouldn't before, like whether a work portraying evil is artistic, or what we are if we have find pleasure from tragedy. I believe the philosophies I learned make me more passionate to art. Art is my life and I live with it.

I think digital drawing artists are roughly composed of two types: one-layer and layer freaks. I'm a layer freak. The building up of structure may be complicated and time consuming, but the editing is smooth as silk. The one-layer artists make extensive use of a technique called blocking in. This is the part that frustrates me. Whenever I make mistakes, I have to re-paint the colors from dark to light. I don't aim at making my drawing look like a painting. I kind of like it when my drawing looks digital. But I know there're moments when blocking in could serve a greater purpose, so I have to understand it to an extent.

Shadowness is a site of artwork sharing, considered by some as a shift from dA. I tried it as soon as I heard about it. Here is what I think. The conclusion is that, if you could get over some inconvenience (partly caused by getting used to dA) that differentiates Shadowness from dA, it is in fact ideal as a main digital artist site. First, your picture tends to stick to the left when zoomed in, then extends to the right when it has already reached the left. There are two ways to do it: make it small so that it won't even touch the left edge, or make it so big it touches the right. Here is when the real problem kicks in: you cannot resize an