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Hello hello fairies and nerds and welcome back! It's finally here the

fourth ser - or the fourth piece in my Hogwarts Punk set. This is Gryffincore!

Before I get into it, let me just say that if anyone has a better idea for a name for this piece

than Gryffincore that

stays in line with the names of the other pieces

please let me know in the comments because

I'm just really - I don't - I don't feel like that name is quite right. So if you have a better idea

that sticks with the same parameters of

Ravenclash, Hufflepunk, and Slytheriot,

please let me know and maybe I'll change it. Then again, maybe not!

So in today's video

while you watch the speed paint, I want to talk about what to do if you don't like a piece.

Because overall I am NOT

very happy

with the way this piece turned out, which is kind of a letdown after I was so thrilled with the way

Slytheriot turned out.

I feel like this one just sort of fought me from the very beginning.

Which I think is why

this video is so much longer. Like I did a lot of editing to

increase the time lapse speed and I cut some stuff and yet it's still a fairly long video.

So if you watch the whole thing, I really appreciate that!

But yeah, I felt like this piece it just fought me um

You know and

like

I drew one initial sketch, one initial pose and

I was just like this is not right because it was a very awkward pose. It was awkward to draw

I did not render it very well.

So I scrapped it and picked another pose and one problem I had - I used reference

for all of my poses so that I can hopefully get the proportions and everything correct.

I had a really hard time finding a pose for this piece.

Because

because it is a series, you know, there's a

set of four images. I want them to have a unity in the way they look so I wanted the poses to be similar

I.E., they're all standing poses, you know, nobody's sitting, nobody's crouching. They're all standing poses.

But I also wanted there to be enough

differentiation between each of the poses

that

you could see that they were different characters. They were different

iterations

and Gryffincore just gave me a lot of problems. So after the initial

pose that was very awkward and didn't work out, I

decided to do it again find a different pose and it took me a long time to find a pose

that I felt worked even a little bit.

So, yeah, I drew the initial sketch twice

and when I got

this sketch that I'm working on here into Photoshop,

I looked at it and I was like, yeah, I'm still not really that happy with it.

I just I - I picked up on a lot of details that

when I was drawing yet didn't really pick up on and I was just like, okay

I'll have to try to fix them with the digital paint.

One thing I do like about this pose

is the way her jacket is sort of draped over her shoulders.

It sort of looks like a cape and I think with the

traditional

Gryffindor

characteristics and the values I think that's pretty on point.

Another thing that I fought with on this one was just like figuring out the right colors.

I don't know, I'm just not thrilled with some of it.

I mean you basically have two options: you can either

just scrap it and say forget about it

I'm not gonna work on this anymore or you can sort of power through and finish it and because

this was the last in a set, I wanted to finish it. I wanted to have a completed

four piece set

you know, to go with this theme of "Hogwarts Punk".

So I didn't want to give up on it I also didn't want to draw it again. I was just -

I mean I like this pose, like I said the cape

sort of aspect I think fits really well with

the idea of Gryffindors.

So I do quite like that.

But yeah, that's I mean that's your basic options when you're working on something and you're just like

Eh, I'm not sure how I feel about this.

You either give it up and do something else or you power through it.

And I wanted to power through because I wanted to have this set complete.

Because I really like it as a whole.

When I was - when I started the painting

one thing I noticed that I really didn't like was the way her face had turned out. It looked

it just did not look right. It didn't look proportional. It didn't look - the positioning wasn't right. And so I

had to manipulate that a lot in the digital painting portion

in order to make it look more

appropriate, more

realistic.

I'm still not thrilled with it. I feel like it's just not quite right.

A lot of what I don't like about this piece are like the details.

So like for example

after I finished, I realized her sunglasses

on the side of her face away from the viewer

the perspective is not quite right and that bothers me.

Other details like her hands bug me. I'm not great with hands.

It's one of the areas I struggle with and you'll notice

when we get closer to it

Initially the wand was in her left hand

but because I like the way that hand turned out better than the right hand,

I moved the wand to the right hand to sort of mask some of the

difficulties I had with that hand.

Another area where I felt like

sort of this painting was just like fighting me

was when I started working on her top.

Not the jacket, but the actual shirt, um, when I started doing the shadows and highlights

I mean

I really struggled to blend those out and they just did not want to blend out the way that I envisioned.

So I struggled with that and I fought with it for a while.

Side note: if you see my volume control every so often, while I was painting this I was listening to the soundtrack from Hamilton!

I actually got to go see Hamilton!

As I'm recording this voiceover, it's been about a week since I've seen it and if you get the opportunity

I absolutely recommend going to see it. It was so good and

the

performers should get the highest props because Hamilton is

almost literally non-stop

musical performances. There are only a small handful of spoken lines in the entire show.

So, I mean they literally go from song to song to song to song and it's just it's so good!

And so yeah if you get the opportunity

absolutely, take it and go see it. I want to go see it again. I will probably not be able to get tickets

Well, I KNOW I won't be able to get tickets even though it's here for another couple of weeks

because all the shows are sold out. So yeah, I

know that that will not be happening. But if it comes, when it comes back, I plan to

do what I can to see it again. So I absolutely recommend that!

I also really struggled

finding the right

color balance for the Gryffindor colors.

Especially as you can see, I'm really messing around a lot with the plaid trying to get the right color and

and when you see the background, I'm not totally thrilled with how - with what colors I picked for that.

Not because they're not the right colors, I just

something about this piece, it's just very

the colors are very hard to

balance.

As you noticed

in the beginning I started out making her top red

and I was going to make the jacket black or like a black leather jacket.

And that was like no. Oh!

Her jacket should be red. I just felt that. And I really like the way her jacket turned out. I think it looks really good

but trying to

find the right color balance between

the different reds and you know staying true to the Gryffindor color palette

was difficult.

Again I had issues for some reason blending out certain colors.

Like in the pants once you put the plaid back over it though it helped a lot but like in her top

I feel like it sort of looks like she has a stain on it.

And that bugs me, but I don't -

I can't really figure out how to make it any better

so I just went with it and sometimes you have to just

Embrace what is finished.

And you know it's like that saying the opposite or the enemy of

perfect - no, it's perfection is the enemy of good.

You know you you can work on something and

it can be good, but because you think oh, it's not perfect, then you don't share it and

that's a struggle I've had. I am a perfectionist and so

sometimes I just have to go, you know what? It's good enough. And that's the thing as an artist

we are definitely our own worst critics.

I've had pieces

that I've done and I'm like, ugh this isn't that great, you know

nobody's gonna like it and then show it to someone and I don't I don't tell them my particular

feelings, you know. I don't try to like

talk them out of liking something I've made and

they'll be really happy with it. And they'll be like wow, this is so good. This is, you know, you're so talented and you

have to realize that

if you're creating art for

the consumption of other people.

You know

if you're not creating art in a vacuum, I.E., if you're not creating art only to look at it by yourself, for yourself,

alone in a room

then you have to realize that

most people will not see the imperfections that you see unless you point them out like I'm doing in this video so

yeah [laughter]

You know, you don't have to tell me like, oh this isn't working. This isn't working.

Believe me. I see all the imperfections. I know

exactly what isn't working.

Since we're at this point, I'm not thrilled with her hair either.

I don't know what happened. I don't, I don't have a reason it just, ugh.

I just sort of did something with it.

I don't know. I think it's - I think my problem was

the initial shape of the hair just wasn't right, and I didn't fix that and I should have.

So

I went with this

shape of the hair the general - when I say "shape of the hair" I mean the whole body of hair as a single shape.

It just wasn't what it should be and I didn't fix it and I should have. That's on me.

But like I was saying

when you're creating art that will be

seen by other people

the majority of those other people are not going to see the mistakes that you see.

And even if they do they're probably not going to bring them up to you.

I've found that the people

who

look at your work and bring up the mistakes to you are -

They fall into a few different camps.

One camp is they're just incredibly ballsy

and

they just you know think they have the right to critique your artwork.

One camp is they just aren't

aware

that maybe this is not a good thing to do.

And you know the the other camp is

They are know-it-alls and they think they know better.

And so I try to not

listen to those kind of critiques of my work and just

you know

do my own critique. And again, I am my own worst critic and you will find that to be true

with most creators. They will

you know, tear themselves down a million times more harshly than anyone else can.

But you know, the important thing is I finished it!

And

I finished the whole set and you can check out the other videos and you know see the different

characters I created for this set.

And if you like it, let me know in the comments!

If you don't like it, I really don't care because I don't like it either [laughs]

Which is ridiculous to say, but it's true.

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We'll see if I can keep up that pace.

So thanks again for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video. I hope I

helped you not be so hard on yourself if you're an artist.

It's very easy to be hard on yourself if you're an artist so

be nice to yourself.

You're not perfect and you don't have to be and

people will look at your work and think it's perfect even if you don't.

I'll see you guys next time.