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1st year of drawing! LittleBigUpdate! Also Happy Hallowee...
4 years ago
Today marks my 1 year anniversary in FurAffinity and digital drawing in general! To be honest, drawing is the hardest thing I have ever tried to learn. I'm not artistically inclined at all, and my brain is wired for more technical stuff like 3D, aircraft maintenance and computers. A good amount of effort was put into learning this skill and a lot of rage quit happened but we're gonna push on!
Life Synopsis and update: (Kinda depressing I guess)
For anyone who doesn't know, I got out of the Air Force in 2020 and later in the year I decided to take on a new skill on drawing in order to further push appeal on my 3D characters. So from October 2020 to Jan 2021 I was incredibly active on attempting new styles of characters and trying to get a good understanding on the whole concept. Around Feb 2021 I randomly decided to go to school for Computer Animation. No particular reason maybe I just thought it would keep me busy and inspired to continue art and animation. Oh boy was I wrong. If anything, going to school for art was the biggest mistake of my life. The whole time I was there I wanted to just quit it. It wasn't because it was difficult, (actually it was quite easy) it was mainly because the workload was incredibly high and most assignments took about 40-60 hours to complete. Do this much work every few days for a few months on top of a full time job and bills with no break and eventually you'll burn out. Well, I did... after about 7 months. It was getting incredibly frustrating, and I was stressed out to the point of turning to alcohol to help drown out the hatred. That's when I finally drew the line, so I dropped out earlier this month of October. I did it so I could love art again. Afterwards, I took a week or two to get my life together. That brings us to today.
Challenge to myself, and future plans
During my time in school I drew so many little sketches but never got the time to further develop or paint them. Eventually they just sat in my hard drive with little to no attention as I pursue newer projects. I want to celebrate my 1 year anniversary of drawing to post those WIP's through-out the next month. On top of this, I want to attempt to draw one art piece a day for the month of November. That's 30 (most likely) simple drawing's I will post in total, with some WIP's from year 1 of art.
Also, I'm slowly moving towards Twitter for posting art, so feel free to check me out there. (I will be more active on posting life stuff as well). I'm also planning to open an e621 and reddit depending on how this next few months go.
Commissions will be a focus for me starting December. So I'm super looking forward to that!
That should be it, thanks to all for sticking with little me on this first year of art!
Life Synopsis and update: (Kinda depressing I guess)
For anyone who doesn't know, I got out of the Air Force in 2020 and later in the year I decided to take on a new skill on drawing in order to further push appeal on my 3D characters. So from October 2020 to Jan 2021 I was incredibly active on attempting new styles of characters and trying to get a good understanding on the whole concept. Around Feb 2021 I randomly decided to go to school for Computer Animation. No particular reason maybe I just thought it would keep me busy and inspired to continue art and animation. Oh boy was I wrong. If anything, going to school for art was the biggest mistake of my life. The whole time I was there I wanted to just quit it. It wasn't because it was difficult, (actually it was quite easy) it was mainly because the workload was incredibly high and most assignments took about 40-60 hours to complete. Do this much work every few days for a few months on top of a full time job and bills with no break and eventually you'll burn out. Well, I did... after about 7 months. It was getting incredibly frustrating, and I was stressed out to the point of turning to alcohol to help drown out the hatred. That's when I finally drew the line, so I dropped out earlier this month of October. I did it so I could love art again. Afterwards, I took a week or two to get my life together. That brings us to today.
Challenge to myself, and future plans
During my time in school I drew so many little sketches but never got the time to further develop or paint them. Eventually they just sat in my hard drive with little to no attention as I pursue newer projects. I want to celebrate my 1 year anniversary of drawing to post those WIP's through-out the next month. On top of this, I want to attempt to draw one art piece a day for the month of November. That's 30 (most likely) simple drawing's I will post in total, with some WIP's from year 1 of art.
Also, I'm slowly moving towards Twitter for posting art, so feel free to check me out there. (I will be more active on posting life stuff as well). I'm also planning to open an e621 and reddit depending on how this next few months go.
Commissions will be a focus for me starting December. So I'm super looking forward to that!
That should be it, thanks to all for sticking with little me on this first year of art!
