I am a perfectionist, but I think it's getting worse, to the point where I can barely finish any art anymore.

I haven't had a lot of time for poser recently, and amongst other things on my list of things to do is re-render Bella with better hair. I'm aiming to do it at the weekend.

However today I am working on something else.  One of the problems I'm running into is my character's lipstick. I want it to be pink. But this is the problem with the texture I am using:


Now I wear makeup very rarely, but as far as I know, lipstick doesn't repel the blood from your lips as well as colouring them. I don't believe that where the colour is less intense your lips go grey.

I don't think I used to notice things like this. And it's an older texture, so maybe the artist was less experienced. Either way I have now spent a lot of time repainting lipstick on the texture to make it look even slightly as though it's based in physical reality. Don't get me started on bump maps. One texture artist I love clearly has NO CLUE what they do or how to set them up.

I wind up spending so much time bogged down in details like this, I lose the will to live before I finish anything :/ Is it just me? (I wouldn't be surprised if it was XD)