TANGLED | Work In Progress | First artwork sold on NFT Showroom

NFT Showroom: First Sale woohoo

After I minted my first drawing (non-digital) on NFT Showroom last week, I was happy that I tried out the process and knew how things worked. The work was minted mainly for fun, to see if someone would like it enough to buy it. To my surprse, someone did! @pacolimited thank you for the support, I hope that you will check out my future works as well because I'm starting to enjoy the digital drawing process!

Krita and I had a rough start!

I was pretty intimidated by Krita when I installed it last year after receiving my drawing tablet. How excited I was when it arrived, as quickly this dropped to annoyance and frustration once I was struggling to even draw a simple thing without messing another thing up in the menu. I felt so stupid! When I realized that I needed a bunch of new decent drawing brushes, I summoned myself to first give the digital drawing another shot because why buy normal brushes if you already know you want to learn how to create art digitally?

I decided to start without a plan as every time when I did start with a plan, I felt more and more frustrated because I could not even get close to what I had in my mind. I needed to start practicing how everything works and just do it. Like Nike! That's just the way I learn best, by doing it, not by watching tutorials before starting, but first start, and add knowledge by watching tutorials once you already have the basic knowledge. For some, it may work the other way around. For me, it will only result in not remembering it. I learn by doing it and making mistakes over and over again.

So I opened Krita and started to try out brushes just making spots, draw lines and test it. Repeat and try layers, and again. This work in progress shown above ended as a black spot without all the white and coloring on it as I didn't know what to create from it. For me, it started as a useless doodle in my folders just to practice working with the software.

Fast forward a few days

I opened this file again and suddenly I saw faces and bodies the name that popped up in my head was: "Tangled". I know it's far from being done, but I've spent about 3 hours on it so far adding things, erasing them again and this is where I'm at now. I will move the art to the middle later as I wasn't sure yet on how to proceed at that side but I'm starting to see the end result and know where I'm heading.

There's a lot going on in this work. By accident, I found that I'd drawn a kangaroo and some other fun things. Maybe I just have a good imagination, maybe someone else sees it as well. Tip: turn your head to the side.

I wonder if I can animate this work a bit

So far I haven't really tried hard to find out how to, but I noticed when selecting and deselecting the layers, a funny effect appeared in this work and I could totally see this being animated for an extra fun effect.

But we'll have to wait and see as you never know what kind of inspiration pops up before it's done.

Can you see the kangaroo in there?

Thanks for stopping by, in a couple of days I hope to post the end result.