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Well, what few watchers I have have probably noticed how dead I've been lately. I've been (and still am) dealing with some tough choices in my life right now, but I've also just felt kinda intimidated by drawing lately - I kept telling myself that if I draw something, I better try super-duper-extra hard to make everything I draw better than the last thing I drew. Well, that's a nice goal and all, but it puts epic pressure on me every time I try to draw something, and makes me super strict about really minor mistakes, so I've gotten nothing done at all, lol. So, I'm gonna kick back, relax, take off all the pressure and expectations, and just draw simple graphite pencil sketches and stuff for a while to get in the groove. So, you'll have my sloppy pencil scratches to look forward to .
Upload Hiatus
Not that I've been smashing that submit button lately or anything, but I've hit quite a large brick wall with my art, to the point where I feel like I'm going backwards now. I'm not quitting or anything (cursed for life, for better or worse) but, right now, I just have zero desire to even attempt to draw original stuff when I know what mediocrity will follow. It'll take a truckload of studying, followed by a miracle or two, for me to overcome this and move forward again, and who knows how long that'll be. So yeah, what I'm trying to say is that I'm officially cutting off the uploads, crawling back under my rock, and shutting the door for I-do
What I've been up to
Yeah, no uploads and dead silence for, what... two months now? I think some sort of explanation is due.
So, a few months back I decided I'd dive heard-first into grinding out human anatomy since I'd been putting off doing that proper, and did so for about two months. My original intention was to go back to my usual stuff and start uploading again, but I felt like I could (and should) do more to improve my skills after I started seeing objective improvements in my work after grinding out anatomy. So I looked for other core skills that could really use improvement and settled on grinding greyscale values and the rules of light that come wi
Dilemma
Well, I'm back at the usual point again - I'm not capable of creating most of what I want to make, and I've exhausted my simpler ideas. I spent yesterday trying something different that predictably didn't work out at all, and now I'm a day late and a dollar short. I'm not sure what to do at this point - I could just try studying up so I could gain the skills to do more of what I want, but I want to stick to the daily weekday uploads, which I doubt I'd be able to do if I'm just studying and copying, but at the same time... It's not like I'm on track and in a position to keep going daily as-is. Iunno. I'm tempted to put the weekly stuff on hiat
Down with the Sickness
Man, my plans for today were completely screwed after I got sick from eating something. I have a lot to get done tomorrow now.
So, you may have noticed that I've started doing daily weekday uploads (I did so on Saturday and Sunday this week, but that won't always be the case. I'd like to reserve those days for study). The quality of the work is definitely embarrassing for me since I can't complete anything decent in a single day, let alone a sketch that I don't intend to spend much time on, but I'm primarily doing it so that the idea of drawing and uploading something isn't a big deal to me. Plus,sketching is getting to be a bit easier for
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