Gestures and Vilppu copies. I decided to do some of the work in grey tones because it would have taken forever to do using my drawing brush.

Power Girl in Mass Effect inspired armor. Done for the one year anniversary of this blog. Well one year of posting every day actually but still pretty cool. I hope my two followers will allow me to reflect a bit on the last year or so.

When I started this blog it was to give me some thing to do while I searched for a job, any job. I remember feeling very satisfied with my self at the end of the first month and deciding I would keep this blog updated daily as long as I could. I eventually got a job but not an art job as I had wanted, I got and still have a job in a pizza kitchen.  So now I toil away working my days in a kitchen and spending my nights working on improving my art skills. There are times where it feels very isolating and frustrating. People I know are living lives, having fun and other artists seem light years ahead of me in both talent and output. More than once it has been suggested that I should give this up, that it's not in the cards for me. But I can't. Putting words to why I can't is difficult. There are days that go by and it feels like I'll explode if I don't draw or paint.

On a more optimistic note, I'm getting better. It's a slow process most of the time, but the progress is there. I still have plenty to work on, perspective and foreshortening are the two big things that I'm seeing now. But even they have improved. I came into this art thing later in life than most artists but I'll be damned if that's going to stop me. If there are any doubts about my improvement go look at my June posts for last year of Power Girl and compare it to this. I think that the improvement is significant and if that improvement continues who knows where I'll be in a year or two.

I feel like I should leave it at that for now and get back to making art.