Sometimes the biggest problem I have is getting excited about my own art. Especially when it comes to roughing out ideas for an illustration. I just have so many ways at my fingertips to approach a piece that I get overwhelmed.
And sometimes when I think I have it I move forward on the piece. But more often than not I find flaws and issues in my thinking. The design might be off, or the it starts losing the spark of interest or I go about it the wrong way. So more often than not I'll truncate the work and start over at the thumbnail stage again. I guess that's a good thing.
Sometimes it's not. Of course I learn something with each outing but a project that should have taken a day or two ends up taking a week and in the end I'm doing it as a favor. Wild, huh? Truth be told it's good for me though. If I can get my ideas down and execute them squarely then I'll feel more comfortable offering that look or service to a client. Right now, I'm probably still too green.
I'll post the one I finished later. It's not to say I'm happy with it, but it offers something the others do not and at the end of the day you have to pull the trigger on something. Who knows...there's still a month before the deadline and I might do another one from the ground up. :|=s=
