Work Harder not Smarter…

Work harder, not smarter… oh wait… that’s not how it goes…

Sometimes, it really does feel like I’m doing things the hard way, when seriously, there was probably a waaay easier way to do it.

I’ve been adding more artwork to my POD (print-on-demand) sites… and there were some pieces that I really liked that I thought, “hey, I should put this on a card or something”.

That’s when it occurs to me that I did it the hard way. Case in point… I drew this cute skunk smelling flowers and doing a handstand for Inktober2024… I thought, “this says, ‘Hello Spring!’ to me, it might make a cute card”.

BUT, guess what…. even though I did the original sketch digitally, I did the inking and the watercolor painting traditionally. I probably could have just scanned it in, but instead… this weekend, I re-inked and painted it digitally. Only to remember that I had set the original sketch to 4×6 inches, meaning I could only put the final piece on a few products due to the limited number of pixels. Harder, not smarter. Oh well… as they say, “FAIL = First Attempts in Learning”. Hopefully, I’ll learn from my mistakes.

Anyway… I did find some cute products to put it on, along with two other pieces this weekend.