#artrant

[dausy]

My photos look like a digital camera from cerca 2003 because the hurricane had things dark and stormy for days. Lets just blame it on that.

I've been in an art slump for a while. I did manage to poop out scarecrow boi couple days ago and I was so relieved. The serotonin I got from painting that shirt was unreal. I was super excited. I don't know if I can do it again at the moment. What my issue is is I get really inspired by an idea..its not a fleshed out idea..its just that I know I want to do something in that idea family but then I can't come up with a decent composition. If I can't come up with a composition then I can't paint anything. So for a while I really wanted to draw a deer painting..and I really blame that. I knew I wanted a deer but I couldn't figure out what to do with a deer and then it spiralled. And then its getting to be fall so now I want to do pumpkins..no idea what to do with pumpkins other than jackolanterns..and thats again not a composition. So I'll probably again just spiral. JUST ARTIST THINGS.

so heres my plan. I am NOT professional. I have to keep telling myself I do not need to justify my actions to anybody because in the end it effects my paycheck not. I think..I think..one day I may just make a full on like..border collie calendar..or book. I just like the collies. I like collies in every possible stupid way. And I may do that. I also think maybe I'll do just pumpkins for tiktok. No full on decorative illustration with background. Just how to pain simple pumpkins for like..a card..then I can use my pretty colors hassle free.

blablah..Before I managed to draw the above I did fill in some swatches of my holbein pastel color set. I purchased this set a good honkin time ago, I just havent opened them (probably a reason not to have spent money on them) and some of them were duplicates with what I already own. I just again..love pastel sets..I was actually hoping to get another pastel set and photograph them at the same time but I can't get my hands on the other. And I needed something to do with my hands. The above was not done with said pastel set btw lol.

[nachtee-art]

Daughter of the Sea - Jaina Proudmoore.

I figure I might as well post this one as well, if I’m posting more “recent” art. I did this a few weeks ago, and it was one of the first drawings I had done after almost 5 years of doing absolutely nothing in the way of art. It has taken a good long time, and at times it is still a struggle, but I think a chunk of the burnout is finally out of my system. After having worked in the game industry, for the longest time even sketching just brought on wave after wave of anxiety. Working in games, you get so hyper focused on the finished product needing to look as good as possible, as quickly as possible, that the joy and love of the process becomes muddled, and eventually killed off. Your ‘art’ becomes unrecognizable and you hate yourself for every shortcut you have to take to get the product out. 

Anyways, It’s a long rehabilitation process, and I’m only starting. I’m finding that, in a way, doing this silly fan art is kind of helpful, because it doesn’t have to be serious or deep, or super thought out - I can just draw. Though I still struggle with impatience, and a whole lot of internal screaming of “AGH THIS IS AWFUL!”

I also just got my intuos up and running again, but I’m going to try and still do some work with the copics as well. 

/end rant that no one probably wanted to read.

[sweetbisscuit]

I’m getting so stressed right now, why is my art level so low?! I just want to draw Satan and make it look like him?!!...there are so little fan art of satan that I’m being deprived

[ralucafarcas]

NON USA ARTIST PROBLEMS/RANT

There's probably a lot of other people who share this feeling with me.

Being an artist from a small poor country that no one really cares about is so tough, because unless you are born in priviledged countries like the USA, you basically have no chance at getting a job for big legendary animation companies like Disney or Cartoon Network, or even books and video game companies.

I feel that, no matter how well I draw, or how hard I work I will never get anywhere.

I wish I was born in a better country, that offered me so many more oportunities.

End of rant

[daxgordine]

Sketching like this is so freeing for me. I Haven’t had this much fun in a while. Drawing for work as great as it is, definitely can become a grind. It was nice to have that feeling of being a kid at the kitchen table again. 😊 #artrant #fantasy #sketch #crosshatching #nostress https://www.instagram.com/p/B0OZNOHFlgW/?igshid=110lsgfugksad

[marcelaquintanilla]

Finding a style you can stick to until death is impossible because your taste changes through time, let alone you as human being. 
And even if you do end up feeling pretty confident and comfortable with producing a certain type of work, it probably won’t represent who you are as a person in the next few years, or even months. 
I know a lot of people say that you should try to make artwork that looks consistent in terms of style, because you’ll end up mastering that particular technique, and it will make your art instantly recognizable. But I think that makes you a slave of the style you created. It blocks your creative flow, and you’ll end up dismissing any idea that doesn’t fit with what you’ve previously created, tagging it as unworthy. Personally I think that art is about creative self expression above anything else, and if you’re not saying exactly what you think, painting exactly how you feel, than you’re wasting your time (I know I have) and might as well do something else that’s not art. If you’re anything like me, you probably have this crippling insecurity that won’t let you dive into experimentation, you probably hide inside your comfort zone making the same repetitive pieces. 
But something that gets me into the right mentality is the thought of suddenly being unable to paint, for example if something catastrophic ever happened. I don’t think I would really regret not doing work that looked exactly the same so that I could meet the expectations of the local art critic, or have the approval of the local community of artists in my hometown and get told by them that I have a “consistent body of work”. 
What I think I would regret is not creating whatever I wanted. With all of this that I wrote, I don’t mean that I don’t like the style of my previous paintings or that I will never do anything that looks slightly similar to that, but that if I ever do want to make something different I won’t stop myself anymore. #art #artist #artistsoninstagram #arte #artrant #artgram #instaart #abstract #abstractart #abstractillustration #illustration #illustrator #rant #markers #marcadores #canson #cansonpaper 
https://www.instagram.com/marshella.quintanilla.art/p/BwTCdNLAwLM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13faou3wbms7

[lynxdre]

“Revenge” 

I keep getting stressed over my lack of publicity (?) for my art, I know we aren’t supposed to be so focused on numbers, but at the same time, I really wish that I can make art friends and have the knowledge that there are people out who will support me and love my art :””””(

 idk it’s just being in JC without an art subject and having people around me who don’t really want me to go into the art profession and relate to me, really attacks me mentally. 

But then again, I do appreciate that I am allowed to draw rather than being restricted completely and I appreciate the sprinkle of classmates I’ve met over the years who shares the same thoughts and helped me through the Singaporean life lmao, unfortunately most of them have moved on to their other interests and so now, here I am, desperate for online friends haha :”””) 

[xgeronimowrks]

Pure, uncontrolled randomness can produce by itself orderly homogeneity. However, one must distinguish here between mechanically obtained randomness, such as is based on tables of random numbers or the throwing of dice, and the visual representation of the so-called Zombie Formalism.