One thing I often notice with first-person views in TF art is that the way the muzzle (beak, whatever) obstructs the view is actually not how you would see it. Normally it's drawn in the center as an opaque blur, but my nose obstructs my view both on the left and on the right side semi-transparently. So it would be more right to have it there twice, but a bit shifted to the left/right and with the right perspective.
What's cool about my current project is that for the first time I feel like I understand what some art assignments at school were about. My art tends to be very literal, a direct reflection of reality and more recently my fantasy. I used to draw streets with houses, my room, objects, and now characters. There was no deeper meaning to it.
So I hated it whenever the teacher told us to draw something meaningful around a completely random color splotch, for instance. I never knew what to draw.
But I can see it now.
I want to transport the message that someone had transformed into a different creature. I want to replicate the feelings I had when reading the first chapter of Transliterated (the story I recommended a few days ago). I don't want to rely on crude tools such as an internal monologue or a textual narration, so that forces me to think about how to get the feelings across with the moments I show, the perspective, the art style, everything else I can use.
I'm regaining my motivation to draw and I'm thinking about trying something new again.
I'm a huge fan of transformation art and stories and I want to give a project like this a try at least once. I'm not sure about the specifics yet, whether it will be just one piece or a comic, and what exactly is depicted. There are lots of possibilities!
