LiL uS (with a lil I and a lil U):
This was by far one of the most fun personal projects that I wish I had completed to my hearts content. I had initially started it via Myspace with a few personal friends of mine, offering to compose for them a small caricature based off of reference or preference. I started it the 1st of June 2009 and worked on it for well over a month, inviting anyone I could as the time went on allowing a gracious month preparation. I however bit off more than I could chew, with a character sheet of over 25 others (not including myself).
I did what I could within the remaining spring break, however the next term of life drawing and concept character design harshly crippled the stylized "LiL Strokes" of the piece. So much so that when I returned to this project 3 months later for its completion, the newer figures (other than the presented 6) looked completely different and did not fit in with the progress I had made in June. Several times I halted the project, and several times I gave it the green light, but in the end it was always the first 6 that where truly "LiL" style.
The cause of style amnesia was mainly because the figures where not composed through Adobe, but a smaller, cheaper, and easier to use program at the time known as Paint.Net, that is tremendously more pen-pressure sensitive than Photoshop.
I really want to complete this piece, but what with all the spontaneous friends I tend to acquire and eventually lose to various reasons, to take written in requests again would kill me but I'll never rule anything out!
Recovering from the Flu -- Robert Reyes
