Less-Than-Creative Complaints about my Creative Talents

I  have a Korra picture on my Deviantart page, it's her jumping to the left with  FIRE. I said, when I put  the picture up, that I was working on a background, and I am. The thing is, it's kind of a practice pic for a whole bunch of things. First, it's a picture with an actual background, buildings and such. I generally don't do buildings. My first picture on this account, "His Acrobatics, My Ballet" was actually my first stab at it, and lucky because I accidentally positioned it in a way where the horizon line wasn't necessary, I didn't know jack about horizon lines at the time. I've since been to a class and know... something, at least.

For this picture that's not an issue so much as detail. I'm not much for architecture. I've always been more of a people person. People  are round and squishy, you can do line on them that are wrong, just a little, but don't detract from the picture. Buildings have their own problems. Texture, colour, shape, position, it's all important. An argument could be made for character on that, and my having more experience there, but shut up. Smart ass.

Another thing I'm new at is multiple person pics. That Avengers piece I put out a few months back... even at the time I thought it wasn't very good. If I'd been able to pull back, give characters more space, it would have been better. Of course, I was using a regular shaped piece of paper at the time (idiot). Were I to do that today I have some lovely massive sketch books to screw around with. In fact, that doesn't sound like a half bad idea... Multiple people means multiple limbs and multiple individual details that need to be dead on. It's messy and complicated, and usually I draw for fun. Two people was a stretch for me, until recently. Since that Batgirl/Nightwing pick I've been going more and more at it. Add to the four people in this pick the fact that two of them have power effects, and worse yet elemental power effects, and adding in a character I've already drawn... This piece got complicated just because I threw Korra in there and didn't have the space I thought I needed.

Which brings in composition. I don't know where to put shit. I just put it where I think it looks good. I'm playing around with it now, mostly because I think I'm good enough to be a comic book artist with just a few tweaks to a few fields and a decent portfolio, and I think I got it, but putting Korra somewhere where it helped the flow of the page, and the upcoming tweaks I'm going to have to make to the picture, it's held me back.

The least problematic of the piece is that I just finished a series of Photoshop tutorials that filled in a lot of gaps my self-taught skills had jumped over. The picture of Korra was my first picture to practice this, and I think it's an incredible improvement. The colouring will speed things up... probably. But most importantly it'll make everything look a little less anime, a little more good cartoon (It's opinion, anime fans. Calm your shit.).

All that being said, almost the entirety of the pic has taken me two days (Took the weekend off. Watched cartoons. Played D&D. Didn't sleep Sunday so wasn't productive Monday. Good times.), I just need to do the shading and a little bit of editing to give the pic a bit of momentum and I'm done. Three days at most, probably closer to an early two.

So, yeah, everything above was just my dumping on myself for my inadequacies. But I can counter that by saying I'm awesome.