Ruined artwork... (just me ranting, again)

[Angry Ewok]

I've just been in a crappy mood today... I've had three seperate commissions backed out of in a week, three jobs turned me down, and I even had the Humane Society back out of a deal where I was doing art for them for FREE for the Kentuck Arts Festival...

The real assfuck for today, though? Today I began airbrushing a one of a kind print, 'The Man Who Loved Flowers', only to find that the DICKHEAD printer put some kinda fucked up half-gloss coat on the paper, or something - even though I made certain to stress the importance of him NOT doing anything like that...

Once I had layed down a mask with rubber cement, the print below the mask turned this awful offcolor with every little bit of pressure... after airbrushing the flower, I peeled up the mask to discover that any area with glue had pretty much ETCHED itself into the print. We're talking SCRATCHES, not just goo on top of the print.

It ended up looking like this...

It's still a beautiful image, I think, but the ring of goo and scatter of scratches inside and outside of the flower is simply damning to that bullseye of an aura.

This was a pretty much garaunteed sell for me, and much needed given all of the people who backed out on me recently, but now it's a total toss away.

Better luck next time. Let's just pray to god I don't fuck up the OKONOKOS T-Shirts, right?

[BH]

It reminds of the rose in the Dark Tower books.

[FarmerYoda]

it's still really nice. i mean that in all seriousness, not to just make you feel better.

 ;)

[MMJ_fanatic]

yeah I think you got one of those "coincidental side effects that happens to work out for you" going ther man...cheers!

[FarmerYoda]

OOF. ME TOO.
I had one of thsoe days hwere it was going along really well, then I motherfucking picked up the wrong fucknig pen and began to draw, and i didn't even REALIZE i aws  doing it. and it looks reatrded and out fo place and just so unnecessary and i wish i hadn't done it.

it's really just the faces i did on the mistake, so i'm thinking about just making htem all black.

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[Angry Ewok]

Can you take a pic? I'd like to see what you're talking about... Maybe the piece can be salvaged?

I've been struggling on an MMJ themed piece of art, lately... I'm just not happy with the likeness of my It Still Moves! bear... yes, it is supposed to be a tad caricaturized, but I'm not satisfied. I'll keep working on it until it's decent... it is, at least, not a total fuckup like the piece that I started this topic about...




I'm curious to see a picture of what you've messed up on... I, too, have grabbed the wrong tool and managed to fuck stuff up before.

[FarmerYoda]

yeah. here. i acted fast because i got stressed out and i sorta like it. i mean, i dont know. i wish it never happened in the first place but...meh.

heres the big piece:



which i dont really like that much to begin with...

but heres the area i changed/messed up on.



i just wish i had thought through the faces more. ehhh....

then i changed it to this:

[Angry Ewok]

I would say all is not lost. If anything, it's just a huge blow to the morale to make a mistake like that... If you set it aside for a day or two, to cool off and let that frustration ease off, I bet you'll be able to work the mistake into your design as if it were intentional.

Some of the best stuff is spawned from a mistake, you know?

[FarmerYoda]

Right. And this was the first time i decided to use any color, and I think it turned out alright with that said.

I just can never bring myself to be finished with anything.

[Angry Ewok]

Well that's supposedly something that you will overcome as you get older and mature. At least, that's what my Commercial Art instructor keeps telling me...

He calls it "high school mode"...

He suggested I try forcing deadlines on my personal projects, which is a good idea - but I can't really justify making time for something to meet a fake deadline, when I have real life deadlines that I'm overdue on, lol.

Keep us up to date on this piece... don't set it aside to collect dust for three years!