Redrew my first few attempts at digital fanart from January to show myself the difference. And wow, there is definitely a difference.
Takeaways: My lines have definitely gotten cleaner, and the faces and face-body ratios have improved, I think. As has my ability to add a bit of dimension without resorting to smudging. But my hands haven’t improved that much, and my ability to draw mouths and figure out what emotions look like as drawn expressions still needs a lot of work.
In my rewrite of Beast World, the beasts are symbols of what the characters hate most about themselves (i.e. parts of themselves they see as “beastly”) and for Dick I chose his guilt. Outsiders 2003 was a big inspiration for that specifically, with his guilt about leading the people he loves to their deaths, which is symbolized by a black bird as an omen of death
the first two photos were later sold to a local newspaper and the last one was posted on dick grayson’s instagram with the caption “opps want to see me fall 💪🏋️♂️”