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Past Piece, Candle: [link]
Present Piece, Candle III: [link]

14 months ago, during the Summer of 2011. I drew a panel in a Sci-Fi comic I was working on. Everyone who read the comic loved the Candle; it stood out. So I decided to see how well it did as a lone piece. I uploaded it to DA and in no time at all it became my most popular piece. As of writing this, it still is.

I have tried before to improve upon it, but it just has a pinch of uniqueness which is very difficult to either improve upon or replicate.

Unlike Candle II: [link] (which went for a more realistic approach), I revisited the original piece, and drew very similar colours from it.

Even though it's been a year since the original piece, and in that time I have learned a great deal about Illustration through University, I still feel that the original remains better, even though this new version is more realistic. This, Candle III, would certainly feel at home in any one of my current comics.

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~Slath Sep 17, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

While I like this piece a lot... I have to say that I like the first version more too. Because of the more expresionistic style and the stronger lines the first work presents a much higher fascination and style. Your reworked edition loses this kind of style because you try to draw a little bit cleaner, therefore the sketchyness loses it's appeal. Well just my impression

*NuclearJackal Sep 17, 2012 Student Artist

I know, right?

My tutor keeps telling me to draw cleaner pictures TT_TT

Then again, maybe this only applies to certain aspects of my work: such a characters, but not candles.

Thanks for your comment

~Slath Sep 18, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Well, yeah, drawing sketchy is a double-edged sword. On one hand it provides a lot of motion, freedom and doesn't require you to think to hard about details. On the other hand it always looks a bit unfinished and well... just like a skribbel and not a finished artwork, however even this can be positive. The critical point is when your drawing needs to go into further production or someone else has to work with it. As you already said, if you draw a character and it's supposed to be for a game, a movie or for a comic, where it has to be drawn frequently and the drawing must provide a certain recognition value, the sketchy style becomes problematic. 3D artists for example need -in most cases- a tight and very defined drawing so they can render their 3D model.
Anyway, as long as the artwork is for fun, or will only be used by yourself it is totally legit to draw sketchy... in my opinion

*NuclearJackal Sep 18, 2012 Student Artist

Rock on!

!FrenchPencil Sep 8, 2012 Student General Artist

Old piece was better

*NuclearJackal Sep 8, 2012 Student Artist

Oh mah gawd! IT'S CHRISTMAS!

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~NurseRozetta95 Sep 7, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Awesome work on both

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