Linework is something I consider one of my weak spots, to be honest! A while back, I made a conscious decision to give up trying to learn how to do Nice, Controlled, Friendly Brush Inking like every comics-influenced artist does; once I made that choice, it was easy to move on to just abandoning line altogether. (A choice partially influenced by a little bon mot in an nth-generation Xerox of some notes on inbetweening. Something about being concerned with the masses of color, not the lines that hold them in.)
I've had the same attitude referenced in my work. Most people who do this stuff come from a fantasy/SF documentary tradition - they want to make the unreal seem Real, make it plausible and Right. But we treat the "fabulous" content as given, and explore stylization and abstraction. Most of the people whose art I enjoy do this to some degree. It says a lot that the Big-Name SF Artist I'd most like to swipe the style of is the very expressionistic Richard Powers.
Lines feel... weird... to me. They're an additional element to have to manage in terms of color and overlap issues. More paths to pull out, almost doubling the amount of work. I'm not used to lines at all for anything beyond a quick doodle. I have to manage the line-weights, something I kinda botched here - there're certain line-weight rules I see in most Noveau stuff, that I completely failed to adhere to in some important parts.
The palette, however, I think I nailed. It's a nice, simple, faded thing.
(Pseudo's post was some ruminations on the artistic failings of most furry porn. It was locked to, pretty much, Other Furry Artists Who Read His LJ. Ursula went off on a silly tangent with the 'porn through history' idea, and this was a result.)
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Date: 2005-05-12 02:01 pm (UTC)I've had the same attitude referenced in my work. Most people who do this stuff come from a fantasy/SF documentary tradition - they want to make the unreal seem Real, make it plausible and Right. But we treat the "fabulous" content as given, and explore stylization and abstraction. Most of the people whose art I enjoy do this to some degree. It says a lot that the Big-Name SF Artist I'd most like to swipe the style of is the very expressionistic Richard Powers.
Lines feel... weird... to me. They're an additional element to have to manage in terms of color and overlap issues. More paths to pull out, almost doubling the amount of work. I'm not used to lines at all for anything beyond a quick doodle. I have to manage the line-weights, something I kinda botched here - there're certain line-weight rules I see in most Noveau stuff, that I completely failed to adhere to in some important parts.
The palette, however, I think I nailed. It's a nice, simple, faded thing.
(Pseudo's post was some ruminations on the artistic failings of most furry porn. It was locked to, pretty much, Other Furry Artists Who Read His LJ. Ursula went off on a silly tangent with the 'porn through history' idea, and this was a result.)