rionaleonhart: final fantasy viii: found a draw point! no one can draw... (you're a terrible artist)
Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2018-02-10 08:51 am

And Just So Far Away.

I'm still capable of posting things that aren't paintings, I promise! I think I'll probably finish reading Gone Girl today, so I'm going to write that up for THE BOOKENING. But right now I'm afraid you're getting another painting. This one's a man-made landscape, for a change, from a photograph I took last June.






For the most part I'm happy with how this came out, particularly as I was worried about my ability to paint man-made things (nature tends to be a bit more forgiving; put a branch in the wrong place on a tree and it still looks like a tree), but it bugs me slightly that the... the metal shark-tooth flag things (not sure what purpose those serve; maybe lines ran between them at some point, but they don't seem to now) are so irregular in length.

(It's also possible I oversimplified the scene slightly. I notice I've created a train station with exactly one lamppost on it.)

[personal profile] nixwilliams 2018-02-10 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
Just to say, I'm really enjoying your art! (I'm hardly on DW these days, so I rarely comment, but do enjoy!)
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[personal profile] wolfy_writing 2018-02-10 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I like painting posts! Painting posts are good!

Man-made stuff is way harder than nature! So many lines!

Simplifying is totally normal when you're learning.

I like how this turned out.

I never read Gone Girl. I'll be curious to know if you like it.
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[personal profile] wyomingsmustache 2018-02-10 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I like that you just left out the building.
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[personal profile] apiphile 2018-02-10 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
You're right to be proud, this came out really well!