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So much for my motivation
Nov. 24th, 2003 11:28 pmLast week was cool. I was working on artwork and having fun with it. I even worked on NaNoWriMo in spite of the fact that it's utterly hopeless, and there's no way I'll be able to get to 50,000 words before the end of the month.
This week sucks. After over a month of hearing nothing about the 7th Sea fan set, I wrote to the person in charge to ask if the project was still going on, because I didn't want to work on any artwork for it if it had been abandoned. He replied to say that it was still going, and then sent off a message to the group mailing list saying that he was disappointed that he seemed to be the only one still working on the project. That kind of rubbed me the wrong way. He hadn't sent anything out lately either, and I at least was clearly still interested or I wouldn't have written. Still, I decided to let it go and work on one of the pieces for the project to show my continuing support. That's the picture I mentioned in my previous entry.
I sent off a slightly more finished version of the picture to the group, and so far I've heard from only one person. Now, I know that I should give it more than 24 hours before I complain that people haven't replied to my email, but the problem is that the one reply was pretty discouraging. He said, "Nice, it still needs some more details. The only problem is that 3D is very different from the usual card art." The first part is okay. I'm not sure it's worth adding details that probably won't be visible when the art is reduced to card size, but it's still a valid comment that the person thinks that the picture needs more details. However, the second sentence bugs me. He'd rather my subject looked flat? What the heck? Maybe he thinks I used a rendering program to create the piece. I don't know. But it really bothers me that he felt it was valid to criticize my art because it doesn't look like the usual art for 7th Sea. News Flash: none of the artists who contributed art to the CCG when it was being printed are contributing to this set. That means that it will look different from the other sets. Futhermore, the other artists contributing to the fan set haven't produced art that looks anything like the previous art.
If people specifically have a problem with art that looks like it was made on a computer, then they should have told me that after I finished Fid Blue Eye so I wouldn't waste my time on any more pieces.
I don't need people to jump up and down and scream that my art is the greatest thing ever - that would be a little much to ask. But I'm not feeling appreciated at all on this project. I can take criticism, but it would be nice if it was more constructive criticism.
I really wanted to do something different and interesting for this piece. I thought the high contrast lighting would really bring the focus onto the glowing staff. I reduced the color saturation on the parts of the figure near the staff to give the light a more unearthly quality. I was really proud of overall effect of the composition, even if some of the details were a little off. It's very demoralizing to get such a lukewarm reaction to it.
This week sucks. After over a month of hearing nothing about the 7th Sea fan set, I wrote to the person in charge to ask if the project was still going on, because I didn't want to work on any artwork for it if it had been abandoned. He replied to say that it was still going, and then sent off a message to the group mailing list saying that he was disappointed that he seemed to be the only one still working on the project. That kind of rubbed me the wrong way. He hadn't sent anything out lately either, and I at least was clearly still interested or I wouldn't have written. Still, I decided to let it go and work on one of the pieces for the project to show my continuing support. That's the picture I mentioned in my previous entry.
I sent off a slightly more finished version of the picture to the group, and so far I've heard from only one person. Now, I know that I should give it more than 24 hours before I complain that people haven't replied to my email, but the problem is that the one reply was pretty discouraging. He said, "Nice, it still needs some more details. The only problem is that 3D is very different from the usual card art." The first part is okay. I'm not sure it's worth adding details that probably won't be visible when the art is reduced to card size, but it's still a valid comment that the person thinks that the picture needs more details. However, the second sentence bugs me. He'd rather my subject looked flat? What the heck? Maybe he thinks I used a rendering program to create the piece. I don't know. But it really bothers me that he felt it was valid to criticize my art because it doesn't look like the usual art for 7th Sea. News Flash: none of the artists who contributed art to the CCG when it was being printed are contributing to this set. That means that it will look different from the other sets. Futhermore, the other artists contributing to the fan set haven't produced art that looks anything like the previous art.
If people specifically have a problem with art that looks like it was made on a computer, then they should have told me that after I finished Fid Blue Eye so I wouldn't waste my time on any more pieces.
I don't need people to jump up and down and scream that my art is the greatest thing ever - that would be a little much to ask. But I'm not feeling appreciated at all on this project. I can take criticism, but it would be nice if it was more constructive criticism.
I really wanted to do something different and interesting for this piece. I thought the high contrast lighting would really bring the focus onto the glowing staff. I reduced the color saturation on the parts of the figure near the staff to give the light a more unearthly quality. I was really proud of overall effect of the composition, even if some of the details were a little off. It's very demoralizing to get such a lukewarm reaction to it.
