TRSE: How To Draw Tutorials:
"Artist's Blind Eye"
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However, there are some cases where some artists
may have made the "flaws" on purpose as in case of "Chibizing/Deforming"
and all of those intended exaggerations. For example, I don't like "deer
legs" (legs longer than natural lengths, common in Anime), so I had the
legs be shortened close to the natural length, and I had some people saying
that the legs are too short. This is the way I prefer to draw.
It is very common for your persepective on your
artworks to change even in a short time. For example, you drew one picture,
and then a week later, you look at the same picture again, and noticed
the flaws you didn't notice before. We tend to be so focused on drawing
that we didn't notice the flaws we created at first. That's why I let any
pictures I sketched sit there for several days before going over them again.
If anyone have read my SailorMoon fanfic
mangas, they can see how my drawing and coordination skills have improved
over time. It was funny that when I first completed my Sailor Mercury:
Beryl's Curse , it looked great to me. But seven years later when I
completed the Sailor Chibimoon: The Queen of Kappa, and compared
it to the Sailor Mercury: Beryl's Curse, I can see all of those
huge big differences I haven't noticed before... Even the artist's persepective
can change over time too.
The "Artists' Blind Eye" is natural
and because of the people's wide variety of points of view, it's almost
impossible to overcome that. That's why there are no such thing as "Perfectionism".
It's not healthy to be too obessessed with perfectionism and that's what
killed Van Gogh. When he finished his last Sunflower artwork, he was so
unhappy with it that he committed suicide. So all you do is just
do your best as you can to avoid making any mistakes you don't want to
make, and it helps to listen to anyone's criticism because you never know
how helpful some criticism might be.
Let's move on to read about
Handling the Criticism