{"id":121,"date":"2024-03-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2025-10-06T21:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:56:19","slug":"something-fishy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Something Fishy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Less reading today! I have been drawing and crafting at least as long as I&#8217;ve been writing, and surprise, it takes practice to get good there too. So today I&#8217;ve got some pictures for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to develop myself as an artist. I don&#8217;t plan to use this as an income stream nor use it in my books though I may use it in other ways. But as such, I&#8217;ve tried branching out from my normal style. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-style-default\" style=\"grid-template-columns:85% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/goldfish-1024x738.jpg\" alt=\"A goldfish with a worried expression\" class=\"wp-image-129 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/goldfish-1024x738.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/goldfish-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/goldfish-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/goldfish-1536x1107.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/goldfish-2048x1476.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Krita Digital Drawing Tutorial- Digital Illustration of Goldfish - Speed Paint by Pallab Biswas\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r95XoXmNB60?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I used the above tutorial because, as I told my daughter, when you&#8217;re learning, it&#8217;s valuable to look to people who know more than you and have different experiences and styles. I&#8217;m pretty pleased with the result. It&#8217;s certainly different than my style and they had some interesting tricks I hadn&#8217;t thought of. I also used some methods I like that they didn&#8217;t use. I think it was a valuable experience either way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For comparison, here&#8217;s a picture I did about this time last year; the subject is this idea I had of &#8220;what happens to all the stories that people create that are never recorded?&#8221; So I made this fae? otherworldly being? who collects all the stories in her interdimensional library garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/keeper-of-lost-stories-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a purple and blue cloak of stars holding a book; behind her are bookshelves.\" class=\"wp-image-124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/keeper-of-lost-stories-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/keeper-of-lost-stories-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/keeper-of-lost-stories-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/keeper-of-lost-stories-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/keeper-of-lost-stories-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/keeper-of-lost-stories.jpg 1754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Which may not be an utterly fair comparison. They&#8217;re very different subject matter. So to muddy the waters further, here&#8217;s another one I did a while back of Mary Poppins as a werewolf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/werewolf-poppins-color-724x1024.png\" alt=\"Mary Poppins' outfit on a wolf. She's leaning on her umbrella.\" class=\"wp-image-125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/werewolf-poppins-color-724x1024.png 724w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/werewolf-poppins-color-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/werewolf-poppins-color-768x1086.png 768w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/werewolf-poppins-color-1086x1536.png 1086w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/werewolf-poppins-color-1448x2048.png 1448w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/werewolf-poppins-color.png 1754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Why are these here? Well, for a few reasons. Practice, certainly. Description, of course. Showing off\/sharing? Maybe a bit. But mostly, I am trying intentionally to get over a mental block of mine. I am, honestly, very proud of my work- art, fiction, etc. But I&#8217;m reluctant to share it because I&#8217;m worried someone else will critique it. You know, tell me I&#8217;m not as awesome as I&#8217;m confident that I am. But if I can&#8217;t take (good, accurate, helpful) criticism I&#8217;m never going to improve. So here&#8217;s some sharing!<br>(this would be more effective if I allowed comments but I&#8217;m trying to avoid bots! I&#8217;ll open up a venue to discuss somewhere in a little while.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>Intellectual Property of Elizabeth Doman<br>Feel free to share via link<br>Do not copy to other websites or skim for AI training<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less reading today! 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