Happy Mezzotint Tuesday / Process Rambling (Patreon)

I got some new textures in the bank after scoring some old halftone/mezzzotint acetate transfer sheets from the art store over the weekend and you know how I love a texture. :) This is the Mezzotint Heavy

This is just a scribbley test but I'm hoping they come in real useful on some future projects that are more in line with that computer lab drawing from last month.

I've started inking new pages on Ivy & Pine so I'll be tossing those up soon, thank you for your patience it's been a kinda harrowing month, but my goal is to have at least another 6-8 pages in ink before the end of the month and I should have the time to do it.

The curse of managing my own schedule is that I tend to group my other freelance work such that I do everything in concentrated doses because my brain seems to like focusing on one subject for longer. So I'll do a bunch of one kinda work and then the next day work through a bunch of pages. I know that makes for a pretty erratic feed for you, dear patron, and I appreciate you being patient with it. 🙏🏻

Art Rambling:

When I was younger I always wanted to adopt the sorts of principles and work methods that I saw other professionals using--industry standards and whatnot-- but it wasn't until doing this patreon when I was able to appreciate my own natural creative process up close, realizing that sometimes I can work really fast and other times it's painfully slow. 

It usually has to do with how much I fear/dread a particular part of the process, and those feelings usually just come from there being an unanswered question or unresolved problem in the work. I used to have a very gung-ho just power through it kind of attitude about my work, which would often get me through that discomfort and scary ambiguity, but the downside to that method was that if I couldn't muster the energy to power through it, I could do nothing at all.

Now I'm realizing the best thing I can do as an artist to keep myself both happy and productive is to identify what the specific problem or challenge is and see if I can either solve it with more precision or just simply work around it and let it resolve itself later as those things so often do.

The only issue with this is that sometimes things can look like a whole lot of nothing for a long time. What I'm taking a long time to say is that I appreciate you supporting my work, even when it doesn't look like it's working lol ♥

<3 Winton