Lately (and by lately I mean these past two-three years) I've been feeling majorly demotivated, lost and overwhelmed. One could say that I'm burnt out. Or that I'm going through an art block. Truth is that I have so many ideas and love for art that I didn't really feel art-blocked, and I've been doodling everyday diligently, but when I sat down to do more complete and complex illustrations I would just ...blank out. Maybe it is an art block after all. Anyways, I thought that my problem was my lack of technical skills so I enrolled in a couple of art courses (both digital and traditional) and spent 2024 studying and refining my skills. Tbh I'm not sure they helped but they gave me a purpose to pick up a pencil or a brush and commit myself. And I realised what was missing: the commitment! I needed to commit myself to a project (whether a class or a personal one) or I just wander in the dark. I still don't think my technical skills are anything special, I struggle a lot with a lot of stuff, but the only way to improve is to set the bar higher and try to reach it. And if I suck and make horrible stuff, well, nobody has to see it. So I decided to commit to a personal project and work on some OCs and some story of mine, creating the characters and the setting etc. I'm still on the early phases (sketching some ideas, jutting down notes, gathering references) but at least I'm not mindlessly doodling my time away.
Some early ideas for one of the charas. Won't stay this way probably. Almost certainly.
I recently got the 8BitDo Micro mini pad thingy and I set it up to work with CSP on the main computer (since I can never, for the life of me, use the keyboard for shortcuts) and it's so small and cute and easy to get used to, I should have bought it years ago LOL
I know I'm very!! very!! late to the party but I started watching Outlander this past month and I'm loving it!! I don't know how this passed me over completely and never watched it before. I'm only at the second season but the relationship between the main charas Jamie and Claire inspired the dynamic I want for my OCs (I mean...who wouldn't want that??They're great for each other and their love is awesome). What prompted me to watch Outlander is a fan fiction called 'Even in another time' by https://irregularcollapse.tumblr.com/ It's a Captive Prince fanfic, probably my favourite ever, if you like the fandom please give yourself a present and go read it!!
An artist I go back periodically for inspiration is https://demian.art/ I love in particularly how sensual their art is with little effort, the ink lines are amazing. And beautiful boys too!!
I wanna use this blog like, well, a blog so I'll be writing more as I progress. I wanna have a space where to share how I go along this artist journey but also ideas and thoughts, in a somewhat newsletter format (I love the artists newsletters I'm subscribed to so I wanna do something similar, for me, to record my experience in one place ;D)
Until next time, take care and happy arting.
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