Style

I am encountering a slight issue with drawing for ACen this year. The issue is not motivation for once--in fact, I'm almost done.

You know how when you start learning a skill, it's very easy to improve. The learning curve is a very forgiving slant. But then once you get to a certain point, the curve becomes a plateau. As you get better and better the plateaus become more frequent and longer and the jumps, while more infrequent, are much more significant.

Anyway. I think I may have finally hit another jump. It's been a long time, honestly. I could probably have hit this jump sooner if I had worked on in more, but either way, it's here now. Right in the middle of drawing for ACen. What this means is that my earlier stuff looks different than my newer stuff. I mean, that always happens. But I'm drawing completely differently. I'm coloring my lines now. I know more about shading now. I'm using techniques I learned.

The issue is this: I'm making a lot of sets. A set of X-Men bookmarks. A set of Pokemon buttons. A set of Avatar buttons. Since I'm dumb, I didn't draw the entire set at once. So I have to style-check in the middle of sets.

For example: I drew my Squirtle button about a month ago. It has black lines and fairly minimal shading. Between then, I started my Avatar set. They all have colored lines. I then made my Tentacular  button, which has no lines at all. Today, I am drawing my new Charmander button. If I drew it in my new style, it would look odd. Not odd in and of itself, but odd compared to the rest of the set. Or rather, Squirtle would look odd, since that's the one with black lines and Charmander and Bulbasaur would have colored lines.

So basically, I have to pay a lot more attention when I'm drawing this stuff. It's strange.