Poll Results and Artist Reveal! (Patreon)

Alright, well I'm going to leave the poll open in case anyone else would like to vote on it, but considering more people have already responded to it than in both previous polls, I think we've got a good sample size. And it's very positive! The average score from all the votes is an 8.07, or great. In comparison, the average for the ass part of the last poll was a 5.3 average, and the face scored a 2.9, poor. Which I guess shows how much you can improve from the first thing you've ever drawn, to the second thing you've ever drawn, because...

I'm the artist behind both of the two art polls I put up recently! I didn't want to say that off the bat, because I didn't want that to impact the results, as I assumed you'd be more positive if you knew I'd drawn it. That certainly worked, if the 3/10 face score is anything to go by, lol. It also led to some really funny comments, like one concerned that the artist might be scamming me. A fair comment, as asking someone to pay for the first thing I'd drawn would be pretty shady, but I'm here to assure everyone that I am not scamming myself. Hell, I did both of those "commissions" for myself for free!

Now, I want to explain what happened with my first two attempts at drawing, which should serve as replies to some of the comments left on that poll as well. As I mentioned, other than a very rough sketch of a face that I don't really count, the Cassandra artwork was the first thing I've ever really tried drawing, and oh boy did a make a lot of mistakes. And not just technical mistakes—which I also made plenty of—I mean "things you almost certainly shouldn't do on your first attempt to draw a person." Like choosing a red skin tone, for example. None of the tutorials on shading I found online used a red skin tone as an example, for some reason. The pose, as well, was a bad choice. I thought it being just an ass would make things simpler to draw, but the bent over pose combined with the angle being directly behind made it really difficult to actually have an impression of a large ass, because that pose combined with that angle really flattens things out.

I think all of these things combined made it quite a bit more time consuming to do, which leads to what I think is the main problem with the artwork overall, which is that I ended up spending significantly less time on some parts of the image than others. The face is a glaring example of this, considering I wasn't even going to do it originally. I spent at least four times as much time on the ass than the face, and I even remember as I was uploaded the poll thinking "wow her face is long," but I didn't have it in me to tweak anything further, as I'd already spent a lot of time on it altogether. There were also some parts of the ass that I didn't spend a whole lot of time on. I more or less needed to completely learn from scratch how to draw every single part of the image, so especially with things like Cassandra's asshole, and her pussy, I got something I figured was "passable" and left it at that. And "passable" might have been generous on some of those.

My second attempt at drawing a face went a lot better, because I spent a lot more time on it. And while I made some overall better decisions in my planning, (like the normal skin tone and the side view angle), I still made quite a few mistakes. Mainly shading the entirety of the face and hair before taking a look at the image and checking to see if anything needed to be adjusted. Which was a real shame, because pretty much everything needed to be adjusted, lol. Fixing that would have been a hell of a lot faster to complete if I didn't have to adjust the shading every time I tweaked something.

I could probably ramble on more about this, but this post is getting pretty long already, so maybe I'll hold off for now. Two more things to mention here. I'm expecting that once I've got a better feel for drawing and don't have to constantly look up references to try and draw something I've literally never drawn before, I'll be able to significantly increase how much artwork is done per update, since unlike artists I commission from, I'll only be drawing art for the game. Additionally, I'll try and make sure updates aren't significantly smaller, or significantly delayed (cough excluding this one cough) due to me focusing on drawing. I suspect that adding drawing in will actually let me do a more work overall, because when I'm a bit drained from writing, I can switch to drawing, and when I feel like taking a break from that, I can go back to writing, ect. That is absolutely not what I did with both the Cassandra scene and this new face image, and I could definitely feel myself suffering productivity wise because of it, but I simultaneously really wanted to finish these, so I forced myself to keep going.

That's it for now. Thanks for all the feedback, positive and negative. I doubt my second attempt would have worked as well if it weren't for the feedback I got on the first, and the low overall score just motivated me to immediately start drawing again to try and do better.