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Donator — Fox Lady Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 04:56:04 )


I know what part of my problem is. I have this bad habit of *needing* to finish an art piece all in one go. Like the sketch, lineart, coloring, shading all in one sitting. I KNOW if I save it, and like attempt to pick it up the next day, I won't. Like something mentally keeps me from opening it back up to keep working on. I have sketches of things I never went back to because when I boot up ye old drawing tablet, I start a new image in SAI and completely forget the other stuff. If I had more time, and a better ability with anatomy and poses and dynamics, I feel like I could make better stuff.

I feel like I'm not really *meant* to draw. Like some people are born with good voices and can sing without a lesson. I've taken so many art classes in college and while it helped a lot, I don't think I've really improved much. I know it's a process to learn and get better by doing more, but I get discourage very easily and if I'm not in a drawing mood I don't even bother because I know I'll just poop out crap.








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Donator Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 12:46:12 )
I entered two AOTW and then gave up hahaha

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Donator — she/her Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 15:53:00 )
I entered this aotw, but I think it’s only like the second time I’ve ever entered XD

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Donator — She/Her Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 16:28:30 )



@crystalkitsune85:
On the topic of art - have you tried switching to mediums that have you doing significantly different art than what you would do digitally? I got really really badly art-blocked on digital art around when I was in my last year/graduating college. Couldn’t do it. I tried on a few ocassions but didn’t get much done. But I’d picked up calligraphy in the last couple of years so I worked on practicing that and I ended up getting into doing loose watercolor florals for a while too.

Turns out, without realizing it both of those mediums - which aren’t terribly forgiving the first time around but are relatively quick enough to get to the final product that you can always ‘re-do’ - had taught me to live with the first line I’d put down - whether it was exactly what I wanted or not. So that when I finally jumped back into digital art I’m a lot quicker and a lot less concious about every single line I put down.

Anyway my point is, It could be worth it for you to try to get into something really different for the change of pace which is good for art-block (like not wanting to bother because it could just be crap) and because you could learn techniques/modes of working that will translate to your digital art when you decide to go back to it.


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Donator Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 17:25:22 )
I have changed my avatar.....slightly

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Donator — AAAAAAAAAA Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 17:26:12 )


    wow moif such solid advice

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Donator — AAAAAAAAAA Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 17:26:29 )


    me @ my avatar: nada
    nothing

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Donator Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 17:27:27 )
rip my attempts to learn calligraphy
never got around to buying proper paper

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Donator Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 17:27:49 )
I wanted to use the new fireflies

but they look weird >o>

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Donator — AAAAAAAAAA Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 17:28:50 )


    i dont have the patience to do nice calligraphy

    but i want to work on writing chn lmfaooo my writing is so janky

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Donator Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 17:29:27 )
oh my handwriting in Chinese is just like my English one but...in Chinese lol

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Donator Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 17:30:25 )
the same with my korean handwriting haha

they all have the same quality about them ffff

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Donator — AAAAAAAAAA Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 17:32:40 )


    my eng is vastly superior to my chn writing AKSJKJF
    i am Trying

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Donator Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 17:38:25 )
ughhhh my handwriting is just not nice

cry

I'm not patient enough with strokes to make them have the proper baseline and shit hahahaha

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Voltie Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 18:12:56 )
Ohhh just saw patriot act is over

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Donator — AAAAAAAAAA Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 18:19:19 )


    IM SAD
    COME BACK HASAN

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Donator — She/Her Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 20:34:14 )



Calligraphy does take a certain amount of patience lol. I use a brush pen half the time these days because it’s quicker than using a dip pen.

Fun fact tho the pressure style you get with a dip pen is preeetty close to the same kind of pressure style you get on a digitizer for line thickness.


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Donator — Fox Lady Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 21:07:31 )


@moif: During college, I took a color theory class. The teacher was one I had before, and he liked me pretty well. He was an eccentric old dude that worked with traditional media. It's not that he disliked digital stuff, but he made me go outside my comfort zone once. He gave me a piece of plywood and said "Paint something on this." using acrylic paints that we were using for the color theory. He was like "if you do this, I'll give you extra credit." so I did.



This was the result.








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Donator — She/Her Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 21:43:05 )



@crystalkitsune85:
That’s absolutely beautiful! I love it!


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Donator — Fox Lady Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/08/19 22:21:26 )


@moif: It's basically the only thing I painted on a 'canvas'. My grandfather then proceeded to order me an easel and some canvases, thinking I'd do more....but traditional media is...fine...but it's not really something I wanted to do again. I like that you have an "undo" button on digital stuff. Without the ability to erase, I have to be more cautious. Because if you eff up a painting, it's just there. And I'm no Bob Ross, and turning mistakes into something.








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