I’ve got to be honest, I find it really difficult to be creative when I’m struggling in my personal life. Anytime that I have a difficult day or something is upsetting me I find that my creativity doesn’t leave, but it becomes quite dark.
This last weekend was a bit tough for our family, so my artwork has ended up being quite bleak. This rose is something I’ve been wanting to try and create for a while, but my original intention was to make it in pinks and purples. In the end it has become dark blue and black.
Although it means I’m not feeling too great, I’m glad I’ve still managed to do some digital art and find the creativity in the bleakness.
I think the dark blue colours contrast with the black background really nicely and although it’s not my usual bright colour way, I did enjoy making it.
I can’t tell you how many individual brush strokes this piece took. Well in to the thousands! But I can’t work out how to improve it, so I’ve stopped here.
I’ve also started work on something a little brighter – a magnolia piece. Again this is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while, but I’m hoping I can keep the dark colours at bay!
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Creative Steph 