Why I'm doing illustration

Alright so here's the deal, mostly an epiphany for myself.

I figured out what I will do should I go into some sort of illustration field. I want to storyboard. Or concept art but I'd need a lot of color practice for that.

It's perfect for me. Things can be a little rough and expression, fluidity of movements seem to be key. It's also about developing a story, something I love to do. I love creating characters and my art style tends to verge on the overly simply and cartoonish.  Storyboarding would be the best thing I could do with an illustration interest. Now I have a goal, something to work toward.

both of these are from Disney's Tangled Concept art. I love this.

Kingdom Dance Tangled

So for a while I had been working on this drawing on and off. But all in all it took maybe 5-8 hours of drawing, and photoshop work? Wow... I really need to get faster at all this.

NO stealing, or removal of the website from the image or I will be forced to watermark all over my art!

Seriously, I may or may not want to use this in a portfolio some day.

Overall I'm happy with the design. (First time doing that position of the head so yay!) But I think the shading could be better (I used/abused the dodge and burn tools as a cop out.) And if I could redo someday I would make the skin tanner for color scheme reasons.

Also inspired by a much better portrayal of the scene here:

http://viria13.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=Rapunzel#/d3cer1i

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