[Lunatique]

I don't think I'm the only one with this problem:

You get a great idea, so you start a new painting. But, you already have a couple of other paintings you've been working on. You think to yourself, "I'l just lay this painting out and decide on the color scheme."

Soon, you are inspired yet again, so you start sketching for another painting. Before you know it, you have too many unfinished paintings laying around.

I've only finished a handful of paintings in the last 3 years because of this.

I'm not sure if it's necessarily a bad thing, since these are just for myself, not for work. For work, you've got deadlines, so you HAVE to finish paintings on time.

Anyways, just wanted to share this silly dilemma of mine.

Here are some unfinished stuff that's been accumulating over the last few years:

















*sigh*

One at a time.

*goes back to the Wacom*

[ February 07, 2002: Message edited by: Lunatique ]

[kantide]

I have the same problem. Although I think mine is more, "God, I suck so bad. Maybe I better try something else." I really think I'd learn faster if I stuck with a painting until I finished it, no matter how painful...

BTW, you've got some great stuff there, I'd love to see 'em finished!

[ February 07, 2002: Message edited by: kantide ]

[Dr. Bang]

i like all of them, expeciall the 2nd one, i have thousand of unfinished painting too.....its all the matter of your mood at the moment.

[BooMSticK]

luna - yes, this I guess is fairly common. And I have the same 'illness'. I believe I have around 20 more or less finished paintings here on my HD. In fact my newyearswish for this year was to get better at finishing stuff. So far only a bit of luck... Finished one or two sketches, two bookcovers and started on around 5 new paintings. Lol!

Pretty annoying when you think about it... oh well... heh
,Boom

[edraket]

There is always that moment where I realize that it's not going to look quite as good as I had hoped. When I start out I imagine my stuff looking like say..Spooges work. But somehow it never really does. I wonder why...
..Anyways..Thats the moment where my motivation to finish it usually drops dramatically.
Accept for 3d stuff. Because of some evil twist of fate thats the only way I can make professional looking stuff. And I tend to finish more of that.

[edraket]

btw.
Something being finished is only relative of course. Some of the stuff you posted could go for finished stuff in my opinion. Maybe I just like simple sketchy stuff.

[strata]

I have a bunch as well that I've made in a short time.. but I think my problem has more to do with my silly fear of painting backgrounds... for some reason it's just intimidating to me... like it's too... big or something... So I usually do the girl in the picture (it's been all girls lately) and then just go bleh, and start on another girl... it just freaks me out...

anyone else have this problem?

[kad]

For me, there is a point where it sorta stops being totally creative and becomes more work. Normally towards the end, I just have to get a drink of pepsi, take a deep breath and sit down and trudge through til its finished.

[Gimbal8]

I wish a had a bunch of unfinished paintings.

I mostly have loads of unstarted ones.

[Sedone]

Sometimes you just need that break-through piece to help you realize you've reached the next level in your art. I hate to say that you should just sit around and wait for it to happen, but that's what happened to me. I went for months without producing anything worthwhile, basically just playing computer games and hanging out with my girlfriend. I avoided anything that had to do with art, like this forum for example . Then the feeling just hit me that I wanted to draw something. I was rusty as hell, and it took me a few days to get back into the groove, but I had all this creative energy stored up. I've been riding them creative juices for all their worth. Okay, this is getting kinda gross, but...

...this is what you need to do. Find a copy of a Loomis book, a Bridgman book, Brom's Darkwerks, the Jim Lee X-men issues where Psylocke gets turned into a badass ninja assassin (you know the ones), and your favorite ambient/trip-hop/post-modern-acid-jazzy cd. Climb up a high-ass mountain that's shrouded by clouds. It's gotta have like a hundred thousand steps that lead up to an abandoned Shaolin temple. Lock yourself in one of the monasteries and study the books for, I dunno, twelve moons or something. Once you do this you'll be so kickass that, not only can you finish a puny little painting, but do it while beating up a dozen ninjas!

The only problem is that now you'll have white hair, because that always happens in kung-fu movies. But since you have long hair it might actually be kinda stylish.

[Lunatique]

The groom with the white hair?

(For those who don't know the reference, it's from a Hong Kong flick, "The Bride with the White Hair.")

Oh man, I was JUST at a monastery where about 500 people/monks chanted for the safety of me, my mom, and my GF(We had to pay for this. NOT my idea, but my mom's). It took over 2 hours, and after all the kneeling and bowing and chanting, I was about to drop dead.

No more monasteries for Luna.

[Anthony]

I've always tried to not spend too long on any one pic. I have a simple reason for this: until my basics are sound(the drawing and the basic values and shapes), I have no reason to try to finish it off with oodles of noodles. Hell, I rarely finish a sketch, never mind a painting