Okay... trying to chill here. I just spent the last half-hour in coloring hell, so I'm a little bit on edge at the moment.
I had spent the day doodling ideas for my Visitor redesign and finally got one I liked, and I drew up a sketch and let some people on AIM see, and they liked it, so I went ahead and penned it, and was starting to color it.
Enter Lucifer, the Ocean Blue Rose Art colored pencil.
At first the blue I chose looked fine, so I colored in a sizeable piece of him with it- but as I got farther along I noticed that it looked too light. I tend to press kinda hard with my pencils, so it was too thick to really mix with another colored pencil, and there was no way it'd erase. So I thought "Oh, I'll just get my turquoise sharpie and go over it with that to darken it.". Yeah, I'm a dumbass.
The marker of course would not stick to the paper because of the layer of colored pencil, and it left this horrible streaky texture and there were huge bars of the original blue all over. I tried using a bigger sharpy that had more ink, but it still did a mediocre job of covering it up.
At this point I was getting pretty frustrated- but over AIM, Soundwave had suggested using black in his color scheme instead of blue, so I figured I'd use a black sharpie and go over the blue sharpie, thus masking the azule fiasco.
Again, I am a dumbass.
There may well have been a layer of blue sharpie there, but it was waxy and diluted from the layer of colored pencil beneath it which, unfortunately, hadn't magically ceased to exist. I put the black sharpie on and it did the exact same thing the blue sharpie had done.
Desperate and more than a little bit frustrated, I went for my gel pen. The gel pen is what I use for all my outlining, and it's got a lot of good, thick ink that doesn't rub off when colored pencil is involved. Surely, I thought, that'd save me.
Wrong.
At first I thought it worked- there were some black parts overlapping other black parts, and I just barely managed to maintain the original outline there to keep it from becoming a big black mess, so I went on to color the rest of the originally-meant-to-be-blue parts with my black sharpie and pen. And as I finished and leaned back in my chair to give a sigh of relief, it came to my attention that the areas I colored black were about five shades lighter (and less blue-tinted...) than the fiasco parts that I had blacked out. On top of that I realized that, now that his color scheme used black instead of blue, the gray I had used was waaay too light- which meant I had to... darken it.
One irreversible screw-up after the next and all that effort to hide it, and then before I can even "fix" that I'm given the exact same problem again but in a different color. I freakin' snapped.
So... The Visitor took a little visit to the inside of my fist, and then to the inside of my other fist, and then packed his bags and went off to visit the trash can. T__T
I know it was just a drawing, and I don't usually get worked up when I mess one up, but after you more or less have it complete and then mess it up in a way that's completely impossible to fix- and it drags on in several steps for 30 minutes... well, yeah. I was pretty effin pissed.
BUT, BUT- just as I was about to rip my laptop in half and breath fire on it,
reminded me in AIM that I had scanned the sketch before the whole trip to coloring hell, and that I could print that out and use it to start over. I know I already told you, but seriously, you're my freakin hero dude. As mad as I was, there's no way I would've ever remembered that, and I probably would've had to completely restart the lineart and everything, and woulda been thoroughly miffed about it.
So that helped me calm down tremendously. But, even though I can at least print out the sketch and trace that to reuse the original lineart, this means The Visitor is going to be a little delayed. And after all that hassle I'm a little disenchanted with drawing at the moment, so Bagan's delayed too, assuming I still want to draw him by that point. I'll also throw in there that I started penning that Godzilla design I've neglected for so long, and with all the scale textures and everything on that- yeah, no. I'll wait on that too.
So... I normally tell you all the things that I promised you I'd do but still havn't done, but since the list hasn't really changed any and this journal's pretty long already I'll spare you.
And I still can't change my Mood from Daily Needs. Erg. :l
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