Valley of Forgotten Art

I thought this might be a fun wee post, my computer is full of digital art that I started and then just lost either the motivation or the will to continue with.

Quick warning these are TERRIBLE some of them are in the sketch stages and some of them were clearly abandoned due to how awful they were turning out, but let's start with the ones that were furthest along.

The following three I was going to attach to a tumblr post, someone had done a writing prompt about three princesses, one escaped the tower with the dragon meant to be guarding her, the second ran away with an elfish knight to the fae realms and the youngest was locked in a tower which belonged to a sorcerer and learnt from the book left behind.

Ugh just look at how bad the pink eye on the dragon looks, and I put so much time into the scale work too

I had two shots at this one! the second one may have progressed further at some point BUT I fused the layers down when I was still learning then quit, not realising that was them fused irreversibly, the line across the princesses' forehead annoys me so much.

I really liked this one, but it's so flat, and I could never get the shading and pose right, plus I think I made some layer fusion mistakes on this one too.

I've drawn Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy before (I'm excited for the Sirens of Gotham film) but with traditional mediums, I wanted to do a digital one. I re-drew this one so many times I don't even want to think how long I spent trying to make this one work, but I liked how the hyena turned out and Ivy's tattoos.

If you watch Steven Universe this is two of the characters in their barn, I was playing with environment design for a print I would sell at a convention, but as you can tell I scrapped the idea early in the sketch stages. The next one is also Steven Universe, but with a Pokemon crossover, this one was meant for the same convention, but I didn't finish it in time to order prints so it just got forgotten unfortunately.

One more! This was meant to be a fun piece to share with my dungeons and dragons group when our three characters had to infiltrate a ball, we're a bit of an odd group and I think it I thought it looked too busy for a drawing so I gave up.

It was hard posting all of these, the perfectionist in me doesn't like sharing anything except the most perfect finished pieces, but I think it's good to look back on past projects (even ones you failed at) not only so you can see how you've improved, but to learn from past mistakes.