A Note About Lack of Art

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Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't made many journals lately, it always slips my mind. Very quickly I want to thank everyone for the lovely birthday wishes, I saw every one of them and intend to respond to them eventually!

But now for the real reason for this journal. I'm sure by now most of you have noticed that I haven't been posting a lot of art as I used to, and you're probably wondering why that is. If you're worried it's because I've lost interest in art, I'm shutting that down now!

The thing is, I don't have a scanner to upload art with and I don't have anything for digital art. So that leaves me with having to take pictures of my artwork with a camera. Sadly, my digital camera died a few years back so I've had to rely on my iPod Touch camera to take pictures. This is a problem for a few reasons.

First off, as anyone with an iPod or phone can tell you, this kind of camera isn't of the best quality. Images can be grainy or hard to make out without the right conditions.

Second, I require lighting from outside to get my art at it's best quality. Back before I moved, this wasn't an issue since my house had large windows in every room. But here, that's harder to do. The windows are smaller and therefore harder to get the right lighting, and if the weather is bad outside I might as well not bother since the art will look grainy. There is a large window, but because one of my dogs keeps barking to the point it's causing her bad stress we have to keep it closed. I've tried using artificial light, but the images tend to come out grainy and ugly. And without the right lighting, the colors come out wrong. I've had to take multiple pictures for certain drawings and even in those instances they've come out weird. If I'm just doing uncolored line art it's not that bad, but I've been using a lot of color since I've been trying to finish drawing the DLR cast. And more complicated artwork? I'm lucky if I can get that to come out right on camera.

Those two factors just make it hard to motivate myself to draw. Of course, I've also been wrapped up in my writing so I'm not going without making anything. Hopefully though I'll be able to make art sometime soon, and I'll try to finish the DLR cast before the year ends!

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lady-warrior's avatar
ah so yo haven't been posting much art for the same reason I  haven't. XD