Dragon with Style

Sometimes, when I go from websites to art, I forget to clear the preferences.

... this morning was a frustrating one.

But then, this picture is the result of a long chain of frustration with my characters... that being, mainly, that I designed these people when I was quite young. Their design was equivalent to my ability to draw, and I'll let you draw the lines in that metaphor as you see fit. Krystal was one of many MANY victims to this, and I decided a redesign was in need- one commensurate with my improvement in skill, be it trivial or significant. There was, and in a way still is, a lot of immaturity with my older character designs, but it's a quality I've found myself clinging to as of late.... for nostalgia? I don't know. I almost don't want to see them grow up. I question if it will change the character in the long run... if it'll cause me to deviate from why each was designed in the first place...

Would it be so bad if I did?

Regardless, I've felt that somewhere out there is an envelope that I haven't been pushing, because it lay outside my small zone of comfort in art. I ENJOY drawing what I draw, don't get me wrong, but enjoyment isn't all I need. I've lost the heart to draw my own characters. Maybe its the fact that I hate nostalgia, that I'm just not brave enough to re-do them, that I'm bored with them, or that nobody else shares my passion for them, I honestly don't know. I do know that whatever it is, that's why there's trivia, commissions, and art trades- because these things are never MY characters.

I feel neglectful. I spent a long childhood fostering these worlds, characters I love like my own non-blood related brethren (I never said all the stories were clean). And now, they sit there, in old skecthbooks that I can't look at, heaving one, long, exasperated sigh up to me in the cosmos as I toy with their collective destinies.

And all I can do is sigh back.
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tl;dr? Good for you. I wouldn't read that crap either.

ANYWAY.

This is Krystal, after a bit of a tweaking to make her more... visually appealing, and more fun to draw.

Ah, redesigns. Making years of those damned PROFILE pictures USELESS.

Love it...?