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CrazyMothLady

Dimensional Dominator

The Indomitable (Spring 2023)

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  • The Indomitable (Spring 2023)
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    4:39 PM, Friday August 11th 2023

    Thank you, I really needed this insight :)

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    9:04 AM, Thursday August 10th 2023

    I have a question, I asked it on Discord, but I never got an answer:

    I'm struggling with how my constructions don't match the references of the plants and how that ends up making the leaf-edges feel completely wrong... Is this normal?

    I have experience painting from observation, so I'm sure that is what is throwing me off here, because I see how my drawing in no way resemble the reference... This makes me feel like my attempts are total failures very early in my progress.

    I end up trying to tweak the mistakes and that creates a lot of clutter since I am not allowed to use an erasable medium

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    12:59 PM, Sunday March 26th 2023

    Awh thank you! Yeah, I might finish it digitally after the promptathon :D

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