这是某位朋友的委托，画的是他的自创角色。

本图绘制的时间应该是从 Photoshop 换成了 Krita 之后没多久，我还在试图在 Krita 中摸索如何实现原来在 Photoshop 中惯用的各种创作手段。从结果来看，我在 Krita 中其实画得比在 Photoshop 里更好，更顺手——至少对于这种厚涂法类型的图而言的确如此。

然而我在绘制这张图时也开始意识到了一些别的问题。我当时已经重复利用类似的姿势、构图、题材很多次了。这个画面整体上就是由一张旧图发展而来，到了下一张图时还是一个类似的模式，这让我不得不警觉并反思是不是自己的创作能力有着根本的问题。

于是在完成这张画之后不久，我就进入了一段长达 10 年的创作低潮和摸索期 (2012 – 2022)。在这段时间中我几乎从头开始学习了绘画的基础，扩展自己的视野，进行知识储备，完成思想上的转变，以求提高创作能力，找到一个值得讲述的故事。

This was a commission from an old friend, the rabbit-like character is their OC.

At the time when I was drawing this picture, I had just switched from Photoshop to Krita. I used the drawing process of this picture to figure out viable workflows in Krita, hopefully to create art at the same quality level as in Photoshop. Judging from the result, I would say I drew better in Krita than in Photoshop — at least for the painterly type of art like this one.

However, I became aware of my other problems — I had been drawing the same pose, composition, and topic over and over, that I was running out of ideas. The core concept of this picture was basically recycled from a previous picture, and it was later reused again in another picture. It was becoming so formulaic, I began to doubt my ability as an artist.

Soon after this picture was finished, I fell into a 10-year-long (2012 -2022) low period as an artist. I had to basically relearn how to do art from the ground up, to expand my vision and knowledge, to obtain a new mind set as a human-being — in order to become a better artist with more meaningful stories to tell.