#33 The future

First of all, yea, I'm aware that you can't see the tail on the white background. Will I do anything about it? No.

Now, when we have the less important things (like the art quality) out of the way.

It's my first time (not actually, but first official, intentional time) re-drawing one of my arts. This piece heavily inspired by my fourth post on this site. It's insane to me. That was over 5 months ago, I was young, stupid and could not imagine working on canvas bigger than 32x32.

Now I'm still young, stupid and can't imagine working on canvas bigger than 128x128. So there is some progress, right?

On a more serious note, this is absolutely amazing. For my whole life, I was told to not even touch anything art related, because I'm terrible at it. I'm not saying that I'm good, hell nah. But I'm better than I was.

This whole thing became so much more than just some pixels. Working on something that is against my nature and the way I was raised, forces me to look at myself from a different perspective. Ask new questions. Change me.

Sometimes when I read my own posts, I'm surprised or even feeling uneasy. "Who the hell wrote these?" I ask myself. "I'm a cynical, sour piece of crap, that hates people, who is this?"

It's not like I reached my goal and got re-borned as an entirely new entity. I'm barely out of the woods.

That is today's lesson: the journey changes people. Every step leaves your old self behind, gives you new opportunities to grow and be better. A journey is always worth going onto, no matter how it will end.

The old outline style, I used it because most of the fox will have the same colors, so it would be really confusing if I just place giant blue stain.

Not gonna lie, when I saw the outline, I started panicking a little. I don't think I have ever said that, but it's an important part of the creation process, lesson: If you feel overwhelmed by your art, start working on a small part of it. One by one, you will be able to complete it.

I was this unorthodox method of doing my favorite "chessboard" shading. It looks more alive, but on the other hand, less elegant. Maybe each one of them have their own purpose.

I wanted to show you how I was doing it. Instead of a typical checker, I was placing the whole line of shade and then jerk it.

I added the white part, to help me to keep the proportions right.

Starting of shading and the leg. I was very worried here, it didn't look like leg at tall, but don't worry, right shading fixes everything.

See? Now it looks like a knee. Also, I tried to use as little colors as possible. It gives greater visual clarity and generally looks better .

The method of doing the shading remains the same. It's only important to keep the right angle.

This one is almost identical, but there will be step by step.

I wanted to make the shades mix, that's why there are two tones at the same place.

Lesson: just make sure there isn't too many regular shapes or long lines, and it looks nice.

The head got the same treatment as well as a little shape change.

The mouth was done the classical way. I just made a white stain, and added the details.

Here is the final piece.

Man, I bet that little fella from the past didn't expect the future like this. I didn't for sure.

If you didn't start your journey yet, it's never too late! Please, consider it.

I will gladly continue mine. I'm so curious where it will take me in the future!