#hyperfixation is real

This is my take on a scene that lives rent free in my brain where Violet strips down and joins Xaden in the pool at his Paris apartment to talk to him about anxiety. It’s just such a lovely moment.

I’m loving this @fanartfrenzy challenge to help me learn how to translate my painting skills to an iPad and figure out procreate! Still learning… it’s not perfect, but hey, at least it’s not AI.

ship one: at this point probably niche. a Manga that is over 30 years old. i have been head over heels in love with them since 2001. they inspired my very first fanfiction. completely non-canon. which is killing me. 

ship two: Canon ship, one of the biggest fandoms in the world, but i found them through a video game niche-within-a-niche. the game and ship are 6 years old, and i've only been obsessed for 2 years, but the intensity? Brutal.

God when is the next season...

how to 'Art' takes practice...

(and a fuck tonne of patience...)

I thought I'd share a bit of my madness:

I've been working on this drawing for over a week using pencil, pen, watercolour paints, printer paper, a light box, my iPhone and my Chromebook.

Because I don't have Photoshop or a digital pen or whatever, each drawing is slightly different than the other. For each one I changed a finger position, a line width, the sleeve, the hand position. (heh, at one point, I lost count of the fingers and found out I had drawn and inked one hand with 5 fingers and a thumb. oops).

I still wasn't happy with the drawing so I ended up using a free version of https://pixlr.com/express/ of which I can't save images, so I take screen shots and edit with the track pad because I don't have a mouse) because I can't justify paying so much for digital equipment for a hobby I'm cheap.

I have snuck drawing time in between meetings at work and stayed up stupid late more than one night in a row (oh hello, it is 3:36am as I am writing this).

I see some improvements but it's still not where I want it but... I'm going to hold tightly to my chest to make myself feel better the sayings:

Done is better than perfect

Better to make something than nothing at all

Anyways - just wanted to share in case there are others out there like me seized by this particular kind of madness. Wanting to let you know you're not alone...

um, I'm assuming I'm not alone ૮₍˶Ó﹏Ò ₎ა

ANYWAYS

How it started:

how it wiggled:

how it wobbled:

how it wobbled some more:

how it was tweaked:

and how it ended: