Backgroud/Set Design, and a tangent.

I'm going to be the first to admit out loud that I'm painfully lazy with my artwork too much of the time. Any look at the things I've drawn will reveal that much. The truth is that I enjoy color and light much more than I actually enjoy laying things out and making them interesting to look at, so it should come as no surprise that my usual tendency is to laze my way to that part.

This isn't me underselling myself or anything. My grandfather recently saw something that I had published in a school magazine (The Visual Opinion, for the SVA-savvy) and told me that I was underselling myself in my little autobiographical blurb. It surprised me that he had to say that, but it got me thinking a lot about how artists in general tend to present themselves. Naturally, we tend to be self critical and very self-conscious of our problem areas. It's easy for an artist to say to themselves 'It's all junk'.

I've always felt like honesty is the best policy with that sort of thing, and maybe part of the reason why I've yet to really figure out how to make a solid resume for jobs is that I haven't yet figured out the best way to effectively lie about myself. Or at least gloss over flaws or pull one of those "If I had to list any negative traits, it's that I work too hard and I'm a perfectionist" schticks.

But the other half of why I've shrunken away from constructing a good resume is that, like I said, I'm lazy. And backgrounds don't often enough make it into my artwork.

Especially not interiors.

Especially not interiors with interesting angles and perspective, because straight lines intimidate me for some reason. Maybe it's because I just prefer drawing 'organic' things more, like trees. And somehow it's easier for me to make depth with those sorts of things.

Regardless, I don't feel like I should puff myself up and have an 'I'm the best' attitude, because I'm far from it, and I really dislike it when people have that kind of inflated sense of themselves.

It's probably a balance between the two things. Confidence and modesty, I mean. It is important not to undersell yourself and start criticizing your own work when you show it to someone before they can even form their own opinions on it. Which I know some artists tend to do. Hell, it's exactly what I'm doing right now, as you're reading this very post. Kind of. But it's also important not to lie about your weapons, so to speak.

But I digress.

The next few posts I'm going to make are some basic background drawings/set designs. Starting first with...

...Su's Room.

She really likes bugs. And stars. When I was a kid, there was a friend I had who had a playroom in her attic/upstairs area that had a second room where there was a guest bed. I always thought the idea of attic bedrooms were awesome, so it only seemed fitting that Su should have one.

This is just a sketch, so I haven't decided yet on things like patterns, colors, and/or textures.