Prontoon

so there are two types of 'witches' in bayonetta. Lumen Sages and Umbra witches, dark and light.

Sages are technically not witches, they're obviously god and heavenly kinda stuff. They're extinct due to losing against the umbra witches, and I was thinking my character would have been sent to the dmc world by her parents to save her, so basically she's the last of the Lumen sages.

And in bayonetta world, witches sacrifice their death, so when they die they go to hell. While Sages are their counterpart and sacrifice their lives technically. So eternal damnation vs eternal servitude. my character is aware of this, and basically wants to live a boring life, a normal life she chose, since it's the last choice she'll make before her death

think they mnetion that the angel enemies in the game are basically dead lumen sages who serve underneath the alive ones

anyway there's more, but I gotta think harderP

and maybe they meet because she's trying to find more information about sages and how to summon angels as she does little favours for people.

Aka there's a haunted creek that drowns people, turns out it's a demon so she goes to seal/exorcise it

Alright, this is half beating myself up, and highlighting issues that pretty much cripple my art ability.

I'm a procrastinator and a huge overthinker. That goes for things I want to do. I had originally wanted to pair Hiro with another character, but I got so frustrated whilst drawing that I basically gave up halfway through.

This comes down to me refusing to do a warm up sketch. I don't know why, but everytime I go to draw, I think about how I have to spend 20 minutes warming up, and then in the end I just don't draw. It's a terrible process and I know it's stopping me, but it's hard to break the cycle.

Today when I was drawing, the only reason I even got this much done was because I was watching a show whilst doing it.

First I tried to draw my OC, then got frustrated because it (understandably) looked like shit. Then I gave up for about 10 minutes and then the process rinsed and repeated for about an hour before I was actually warmed up and created something I was confident in.

I know this is not even an art thing for me to work on, it is a mental thing. And, by working on the "boring" parts of creativity, I know I'll be happier. Not only with my work, but with my life.

Ah, but now the technical aspect of the art work. I was basically trying something new, since I struggle with visualising squares and boxes. So I just blocked out shapes and then erased them to create what I thought looked beliveable.

To be honest, this worked well. I'm not sure if it was because I'd finished my arm up, or because it's actually an effective method. Since I hate my family, I will test out my hypothesis tomorrow.

Something to seriously work on is my layering. I fucked up the layering so phenomenally, I couldn't really make any drastic changes. I ended up working on one layer like an idiot, and with the strangest brushes imaginable. It is not a process I intend to repeat again.

I wanted to do some cool lighting which I couldn't because

1. my layers were horrible and I couldn't be bothered to do the whole erasing my background ect.

2. i don't paint often, or properly so it turned out quite....bad.

Here are some progress shots that I spammed anyone willing t o listen with.

Well, there are my thoughts on this art work lol. Thanks for reading this if you did, since it's mostly just for my to put my thoughts into words.

To an actually fruitful year, where I create art! Happy holidays otherwise :).