*nod nod* I totally see your point with the ego thing.
I like to think that I'm not all that neurotic about my art in general, and I certainly don't want to dissuade anyone from looking or tell them how to react (which is why I didn't put anything in the notes). I usually just feel the urge to distance myself like that a bit when I'm frustrated by something or when something didn't work like I wanted to.
As for perceiving problems and no fixing them, well, for me there are several factors. One is that sometimes the effort isn't worth the payoff, even when I theoretically knew how to do it better, say for example like late in the stages when I already did a lot of work I'd notice that a door in the room I'd drawn couldn't be opened the way I arranged a background, and I would have to redo everything. That kind of thing is sometimes easier with digital art, than in a traditional medium, but not always. Perhaps if I wanted to sell the drawing I'd do it, but it just wouldn't be fun to redraw the whole thing for something people who just look at it casually may never notice.
The other is that I may know something doesn't look right, but don't have the skill or practice to fix it or do it better. For example I have real problems with shadows and light sources. I mean, I understand in theory the physics behind it, but I don't have an intuitive feel for it, especially not how shadows fall with multiple and/or diffuse light sources and not patient enough to really do modelling or construction to figure it out the tedious way. I guess I could go look for photos of rooms/scenes with light conditions I want and orientate myself that way, but often I have no luck finding any. I try to fudge it by deciding on a main light direction for some drop shadows and some diffuse gradient things and such, because in my experience even some vaguely random and wrong shadows look better than *no shadows* in a drawing, but unfortunately I'm also really afraid of just making areas boldly dark (I have no idea why, I'm just timid that way, I try working on it, but without much success so far).
For example in this drawing I had a vague idea that there is some more central light source in the room to the upper left so shadows would fall to the right mostly and not be that long and then just added glow for the candles, and the it occurred to me that with the candles to the right of the catalog it would need a shadow that falls on the books, but I wasn't sure whether the skull shadow from the several candles would be visible on the catalog nor how much that light would diffuse the other shadow and nothing I tried immediately made it look better.... so I just let it be.
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I totally see your point with the ego thing.
I like to think that I'm not all that neurotic about my art in general, and I certainly don't want to dissuade anyone from looking or tell them how to react (which is why I didn't put anything in the notes). I usually just feel the urge to distance myself like that a bit when I'm frustrated by something or when something didn't work like I wanted to.
As for perceiving problems and no fixing them, well, for me there are several factors. One is that sometimes the effort isn't worth the payoff, even when I theoretically knew how to do it better, say for example like late in the stages when I already did a lot of work I'd notice that a door in the room I'd drawn couldn't be opened the way I arranged a background, and I would have to redo everything. That kind of thing is sometimes easier with digital art, than in a traditional medium, but not always. Perhaps if I wanted to sell the drawing I'd do it, but it just wouldn't be fun to redraw the whole thing for something people who just look at it casually may never notice.
The other is that I may know something doesn't look right, but don't have the skill or practice to fix it or do it better. For example I have real problems with shadows and light sources. I mean, I understand in theory the physics behind it, but I don't have an intuitive feel for it, especially not how shadows fall with multiple and/or diffuse light sources and not patient enough to really do modelling or construction to figure it out the tedious way. I guess I could go look for photos of rooms/scenes with light conditions I want and orientate myself that way, but often I have no luck finding any. I try to fudge it by deciding on a main light direction for some drop shadows and some diffuse gradient things and such, because in my experience even some vaguely random and wrong shadows look better than *no shadows* in a drawing, but unfortunately I'm also really afraid of just making areas boldly dark (I have no idea why, I'm just timid that way, I try working on it, but without much success so far).
For example in this drawing I had a vague idea that there is some more central light source in the room to the upper left so shadows would fall to the right mostly and not be that long and then just added glow for the candles, and the it occurred to me that with the candles to the right of the catalog it would need a shadow that falls on the books, but I wasn't sure whether the skull shadow from the several candles would be visible on the catalog nor how much that light would diffuse the other shadow and nothing I tried immediately made it look better.... so I just let it be.