Oops.
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 09:18PM Sometimes when you are working on a piece of artwork you kind of get tunnel vision. One skill an artist develops is to occasionally step back and re-assess the piece with fresh eyes. It's the only way you notice big flaws that you were too close to see while you were working on it. I kind of failed to do that this time.
Now that my "The Last Dragon" art is done, printed, framed and gifted to my sister... Only now do I notice a major oops.
Well, first a minor oops. Bruce Leroy (the central figure) looks like a vampire. I was just trying to draw the back teeth curving away into his mouth, but I should have darkened them so they really hung back there. As it is, they look like fangs. But that's not a big deal and I can live with it.
The thing that's going to keep me up at night is that I completely blew the composition and somehow didn't see it until now. Every major compositional element in the piece is pointing towards the center of the art. In fact, all the characters and the type are in a circle around the center. And what's in the center of the piece?
Yup. Bruce Leroy's crotch. I mean, his little brother is actually looking right at it! How did I not see that during the two weeks I was working on it???
Sigh.
Why am I taking the time to point out my own failure here in public? Partly because I think it's an interesting illustration of how we artists can miss the things that are right in front of our eyes if we're not careful, and partly because I think it's pretty funny.
Okay, mainly because it's funny.
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