Old Art Remakes: Colored Pencil Drawing
Sometimes I come across an old picture, and it is completely awful and I start to wonder, “Can I do this better now? Gosh, I really hope so”.
For example, I found this picture I did in early high school.
Besides the fact that I was scanning in art at an incredibly small resolution and thinking that was okay, I also just hate everything about this picture. NOTHING ABOUT IT MAKES SENSE. But, I decided to redo it and make it work a little better.
It’s nice to do this sort of thing and reassure yourself that you have improved somewhat over the years. I also stuck to the original medium of colored pencils. Eh, why not? I still have a long way to go.
Tags: art, colored pencil, goth, remake
It is always nice to see improvement. I often look back at my old drawings too and think about editing, though I usually think of doing it in photoshop. I think it is a great idea to just do a new version all together – mainly because I’m a bit sentimental for the old version. (And afraid I’ll just make it worse). You really can tell the difference in her face.
It’s funny, because it really looked better to me before I colored it. Of course I lost all the minor things that probably made it just a teeny bit better overall. The old face though. Oh my. Definitely redo so old drawings. It’s super satisfying.