Some old faces from the archive (Patreon)

It's the start of a new year, and I can't help but get a little reflective. Well, that and I've been getting plenty of sleep the past couple of days. It's great. People should try it more often. Anyway, when I was thinking about what I could post instead of having a lot of new stuff, I decided I could add some old pics, too.

These are just some sketches from around 2017 that I think are still pretty good. There are others from that era, too, particularly with the faces. The character faces looked great, and I was finding a style that worked well as a caricature and was different enough from each other that it avoided the "same face" issue.

I suppose what might've happened was that I relied more often on shorthand to draw a character in the interest of speed and keeping updates going. It was more important that the drawing be sexy than it was unique, was the thinking. I wanted to keep the patrons happy, and I also enjoyed drawing it that way too. But I think when I stopped focusing on what made each face an individual person, it had a way of flattening the characters too much.

That's not to say everything since 2017 has been a downgrade; far from it. I'm seeing issues with anatomy and clarity that I am significantly better at now. But still, it's always nice to look back at your old work from time to time and try to find what you liked about it.