Well, that's exactly the situation we have here.
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| Apparently vertical stripes were fashionable that season. |
See, years ago meteorologist/entertainment reporter Megan Glaros (@MeganGlaros) interviewed me for a story at Young At Art Museum when she worked in Florida. Being appreciative of her taking the time to do a story on me & our museum, I wanted to do a drawing she'd enjoy as a 'thank you'. However, I was very busy that week with deadlines on a project so I didn't have time to sketch Meg the way I would've liked.
The thing that bugged me the most was that I didn't run the sketch through my drawing pipeline, which led to the following result:
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| "Gimmie a 'P'! Gimmie an 'O'! Gimmie an 'M'! Double it! 'Pom poms! Pom Poms! YEAH!" |
A generic superhero girl who's supposed to be generating hurricanes with her hands (which laughably look like pom poms.) In hindsight, I thought it sucked by my standards (my wife even thought it didn't look very much like her), although Meg was incredibly gracious in accepting it.
I was trained by all my drawing instructors to "respect the pipeline". Well, I didn't that time, and absolutely hated the end result.
Over the years, we kept in touch and she even wrote me a long dissertation on weather-related phenomenons that helped me partly develop my animated character "Monica". Overall, Meg's proven herself to be a beacon of awesomeness...which made me feel that I should rectify the error of that horrible sketch someday.
Well, that day has come. Meg tweeted the other day a picture of her and a SuperGirl t-shirt, which inspired the idea of Meg as SuperGirl.
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| See what happens when you go to CrossFit. |
On Memorial Day Weekend, I had a little time to devote towards this artistic redemption and do this properly through the drawing pipeline.
For months, some new Twitter followers (@RobCabrera if you're not among them) have asked me what my process is for creating the art I tweet. Here's the pipeline- (i.e. the process that let's one create successfully) --
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| Using Procreate iPad drawing app- seriously the BEST drawing app out there right now, in my opinion. |
The end result is a much better rendition of Meg that won't bother me years later. Check out the Before/After on Generic Pom Pom Megan vs. SuperGirl Megan and judge for yourself...
Moral to the story: Putting forth your best effort the first time minimizes the need for redemption.
Respect the pipeline, Good People.
Now go do some good out there,
Rob
