Happy new year everyone! cheers to another year of absolute crap!

more images of unfinished art experiments! for you!

(warning: some of these drawings are terrible)

so this practice was for making decent composition. the idea is that i basically make rough shapes out of color before making ANY lines (spoiler! it works!)

this image is absolute chaos to look at, but its essentially Hatsune miku landing on a pile of gifts

I scrapped it because it was awkwardly off-center in the not good way.

Here is attempt #2

kind of the opposite of an improvement with how ugly it looks. I eventually got frustrated and scrapped it, especially with the colors.

it was then that i decided I am not in the holiday spirit enough to draw miku so i decided to draw something inspired by the song too sweet by hozier.

improvement! Love the dress!

but i wasn't satisfied with the composition so i scrapped it once again

I think at this point I realized that I am not focusing on the sketching stage enough to make meaningful composition, so this next drawing I decided to put more time into that part....

I am quite proud of this one! the face in particular is where I got good at rendering! those eyes especially!

My only gripe: I AM NOT SATISFIED WITH THE HAIR AUUUGHH

sure the hair looks.... passable I guess. If it were on an advertisement I wouldn't think twice... but it just feels... flat? like the hair hasn't been given enough love yet.

thats the problem with it it just looks.... fine.

"you could make the hair longer and more flow-ey"

yeah but this character specifically has short hair! If i just went for the most easy option It would remove the point of challenging myself to improve!

that and the bangs just look..... off. hell the whole thing doesn't feel detailed enough like its less actual hair and more like really fluffy lego hair.

thats about it! good luck to everyone in the new year and thank you for following and reading my bullshit!