I don't create new designs as often as I used to. Instead, I go back to old line art and recolor it with new color palettes. Or I take line art I rendered in my grayscale period and apply color to it to see it as something new.
That is why i'm revisiting the past. I will attach one design I recolored below.
Red Barn In Color
This was originally a grayscale design based on a replica of a work by Roy Lichtenstein from 1969. I saw it in a book on his work, and did a drawing which I applied shades of gray to. This time around, out of boredom, I recolored the work in RGB, and came up with this creation. It is almost Cubist in it's use of solid blocks of color, heavy black lines, and geometric shapes. But it makes sense both in grayscale and now in color.
So even if I am not dreaming up new designs for new artworks, I can visit the past and recolor old artworks. I save every artwork in three forms, as line art, as a PSD file, and as a colored JPG. With the line art and Photoshop, you can recreate a work with a totally different palette or filter and create something new from the same drawing. This has become my specialty, coloring line art. I want to expand in art, but this is my fundamental skill. The Japanese have been using Photoshop to color hand drawn illustrations for a long time. That is where Manga comes from.
So I can stay productive even when I am not productive. The daily grind. Do a little bit every day, and stay occupied. That is the secret to a fulfilled life.
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