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The frame I almost deleted turned into my best piece
Last Saturday I was cleaning up my tablet workspace at like 2am, going through old sketch layers from a project I started back in March. I had this one character pose that looked totally broken, the shoulders were off and the hands were doing some weird thing. I was literally one tap away from wiping the whole layer when my cat jumped on my desk and hit the undo shortcut instead, bringing back a rough version I'd painted over. Out of curiosity I flipped it horizontally and suddenly the whole composition clicked, that messed up angle actually gave the motion way more energy. I spent the next two hours refining it and posted it to my portfolio page, got the most comments I've ever had on a single image. Has anyone else had a happy accident like that where a mistake or a glitch ended up improving the artwork?
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casey_torres601mo ago
Man, this is just how life works sometimes. The best stuff usually comes out of messing up, not from sitting there planning every little move. I've noticed it with cooking where I drop something in by accident and it turns out better than the recipe, or when a wrong turn on a drive takes me somewhere cool I never would've found. We're all so obsessed with getting things right the first time that we forget the mistakes are where the good stuff hides. Your cat basically did you a favor, tiny furry art director with no clue what it was doing.
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