*How Many Features/Figures in your Paintings/Drawings?*

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Yesterday i thought that it was increased distance from my creations, a detachment, as a result of belief in god, which was the factor in enabling me to draw more than one person in a picture, relating to each other rather than (exclusively) to me.
But today i realised that it isn't distance, it's actually CLOSENESS to my creations which is the key, because i can now identify with them, empathise ( ! ! ) with them, as having something crucial in common with me! With the cognitive structure, "belief in god", in place, i feel closer to them, have more sympathy with them, because i too am a creation.
This is very interesting, to me, anyway!

also realised what i have been trying to draw for my whole life but failing because of inability to "lovingly" portray people/subjects engaged in anything except a relationship with me/their creator, (!), is STORIES. I have always wanted to tell stories. Previously didn't understand how anyone could produce comic books/Bandes Dessinees ( as french call them, "drawn strips/bands") because i didn't know how to "do" the action, the dynamic, movement between people. NOW i do, and wow.......
funny thing about this cognitive structure, belief in god, it gets everywhere!!

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IdahoRose, the two characters; do they change dynamic, or become radically different kinds of being, or with wide range of feelings/motivations etc? Do they tend to act out the same kind of relationship?

Do you tend to represent them full-figure, or only partially? Are they the same sex, different, change, or sometimes animal rather than human? It sounds like a fascinating foundation for all kinds of "stories"/ideas/compositions. What i found almost as soon as i introduced a second character was that one was, for a while at least, in danger of anihilation by the other. Do you get that?

just realised that i might have completely missed something here; if so, it's not what i was asking about with my questions. not that precisely anyway.

Although I have studied art in a couple of schools and can draw fairly well I prefer to wet my paper and splash color on the surface and let the patterns form.Sometimes I mix oil and water based color for interesting effect. But this is only the base. Once a pattern has solidified I sometimes take days turning the paper and trying to form an image from the patterns. One pattern can sometimes create thirty or forty images, most of them rather distorted. But at end an image appears that can be quite photographic and it requires only a few lines or colors to emphasize and solidify the pattern to create the final image. Sometimes I scan the original pattern and print out several copies and then form several different final images.

I'm very much the amateur artist; I do 3d art with programs like Wings, Poser, and Daz Studio (1 and 3 are free). I put in one character, because I find a lot of people won't look at a picture with no people in it. I'm trying to do interaction between people, which seems to get a lot more attention.

I can't do more than about 15 people before the PC starts coughing up hairballs...but 2 or 3 seems to work ok.