#37 A chilly reception
You know what? I'm hecking proud of myself. I wasn't filling like pixeling today, but I sit down and done it. Not only that, but also I chose something I'm especially bad at, to train.
So today is the success day, even if the art isn't so great.
This is my first part of the "ice and other transparent substances" training. You thought I forgot about it? You wish! (I kinda wish I did...)
The immediate problem was clear. I have zero 3D space awareness. Nothing better shows this, than the fact that the whole drawing took 30 minutes, and I was trying to draw the cube for the first five. 5 minutes to draw 11 lines. Yes, that's right... 11. I forgot about one...
That's the start. Because I'm absolutely green with this whole see-thru business, I'm still looking for the best (or at least, bearable) method.
I started with... surprise, surprise... the cube. My theory is that this whole "transparent" deal is just a really clever way of deceiving our brains, that's I didn't even try to make it work before the whole thing was finished (kinda like with the eyes, if you remember).
This looks promising. The dark floor makes it already look kinda 3D. If only I wasn't such a moron and placed the back wall there...
Don't pay attention to the color change, it will happen again, way too many times. The gray shades are supposed to be at the back walls, it's a great way to make ice look like you can see through it.
Here I started to remove the edges, they were just to support my terrible imagination. The lighting is supposed to show where the walls are.
The color are kinda important here. The "front" flash has to be really bright, almost white, while the "back" one have to be as close to the ice color as possible.
Like this. Also, my friend had to point it out but, the top corner of the base was way too much to the right, and it didn't look great. It's another mistake created by me forgetting how the cube cubes.
I would not say it's great, or even good. But I'll be better, I will keep on pushing myself and learn, even if I would prefer to just eep the whole day.
This is today's lesson: you might not see it, but working on your dream is totally different from working, because you have to. But you have to start doing it to see the difference, now I'm happy I did it, and somehow even less exhausted than before I started.
Work on your dreams, they are always worth you effort!
