Flashlight Tag & Artwork Do-Overs

This is the finished art for this sketch from ages ago. (My lame excuse: I have been really, really busy!)

Maybe it's that color fatigue thing kicking in again, but I'm not sure if I like how this piece turned out. Then again, tomorrow I might love it. This happens to me more often than I'd like to admit, and many times I end up re-doing the art only to end up liking the first one better. (Picture my family rolling their eyes when I get like this...)

I've gotten better about the doubting (I put the art in a drawer for a while), but it's still rather frustrating. Maybe it's just a normal part of the process.

Does this happen to you? How often do you re-do pieces? Or do you just call it a wash and chalk it up to experience?

Step Away from the Artwork

Have you ever thought that the colors in your artwork look too bright and garish one moment and too dull the next? Or you think they are awful at the end of the day but the next morning, miraculously-- gorgeous? Perhaps it's time to give your retina cells a little break.