#36 Have a strength to pull out this sword from the stone.
Wow, I produce a lot of shit lately.
This was my attempt to work on backgrounds. I rarely make any, so I'm absolutely awful at them. I have so many aspects of arts to work on. It kinda excites me. I should be demotivated and overwhelmed, but I'm chilling. It's like with being surrounded by enemies, it does not matter where you shoot, you will most likely hit something.
My today's wisdom is to try new things. Even if you didn't like them in the past, try it from the another angle. Don't be closed to the new ideas, life is short and fast, it would be a shame to skip something fun, just because you refused to listen.
From this imagine alone, I knew this won't be my greatest art. I didn't have a clear vision of what I wanted to make. But it's only a training, so it don't have to be good. I felt similar to making my first arts, I knew that it will be bad, but it was just a starting point.
But I succeeded at something else: it was my first "two-day" pixel. It might sound stupid, but I hate not being able to finish something in one sitting. I'm a totally the "night before student", and it serves me well. But I feel like being able to work on more complicated pixels for multiple days would help me do arts on a much bigger scale. It's kinda funny, that the whole life of education I never felt like I want to work on this aspect of myself, but I'm wiling to fight against my nature for this. Maybe it's a lesson? Maybe you are not lazy or incompetent, you just didn't find anything worth fighting for? Search for it... it's painful, stressing and crushing, but I would never exchange time I spent on this project.
Like I said, I'm totally clueless on how to make backgrounds. But I was here before, I know I will discover new methods, the most important thing is to keep on trying.
The only method I had in mind was to just start from one rock and go from there... Yea, I know, not the most creative or tactical thinking, but I'm a battleground demon not a tactician, ok?
Here my faith started to shake. It was overwhelming, and I wanted to do so many things at the same time. I felt like I was making no progress(if you are waiting for some insane comeback like: "but after this I realized I have to keep working for the next 5 hours" there will be none, I just decided to finish this and see what went wrong.)
One big mess... It kinda reminds me of my Stone art.
Here I decided to stop and finish the rest. One of my greatest enemies are colors. I have no idea how to match then and reach certain points, for example I was searching for a very weak brown/red glow, but after so many tries I could not find anything similar. It's another thing I have to work on.
Final piece. Not as bad as I expected it to be. I feel like the back wall is ok, but the front entrance is awful.
Anyway, thank you for the read. If you are here, I believe you have enough power in yourself to get that sword. Even if you don't things so.
