An old friend of mine started doing 45-day challenges: if he wants to change some habit, he has to keep it up for 45 days, and after that, ue can decide to continue doing it or he can stop. He's done a lot of them, and acquired a lot of positive new habits that way, but one of them is that every day he writes 5 sentences. Sometimes a poem, sometimes the start of a short story, or something else.
Anyway, this got me thinking: as a kid, I used to draw a lot. Somewhere along the way I quit. I want to pick it up again, so for the next 45 days, I will draw something every day. It doesn't have to be good or finished, but it has to be something.
And here's my first one: a dragon perched on Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin.
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Martijn Vos
Als Antwort auf Martijn Vos • •I need to figure out a better way to share these. Image quality is poor, and I should have rotated it. Hopefully all aspects of this will improve.
I'm struggling with the dragon's wings at this angle. I used to be pretty good at wings, but I've always been terrible at weird angles.
Andreas G
Als Antwort auf Martijn Vos • • •Some would call it a wyvern en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyvern
Great artists are great at picking angles that work well, they are not necessarily great at weird angles.
Some, of course, take a perverse pleasure in mastering impossible angles, that's an option too.
legendary winged creature with a dragon's head
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Martijn Vos
Als Antwort auf Andreas G • •@Andreas Geisler
Yeah, I used to give them front legs and considered that here too, but decided not to. The look of the dragon is quite different from how I used to draw them way back, also because of the different angle, and because I wanted to get rid of the standardised dragon shapes I used back then (which I think were pretty cool).
I'm not happy about those wings, though. Maybe adding front legs would hide the awkwardness oof the wings, or maybe I should attach them to proper shoulders.
Either way I'm happy to be drawing again. That's the important part.
Andreas G mag das.