I'm not an artist yet but a beginner, i keep trying to make fanart to certain artist, make it routine by set a time and do that only in certain time, every night before i sleep so send them an art everyday, from minimal art to colored(i have a skill issue so bad qualitied but send to them anyway) art.

Always thanks for your great arts, take your time and hope you have fun making arts!

huh, yeah, i realize now that i dont really have a specific artist or artist friend that im able to draw art for, or more importantly, with.

i wish i had a mutual to draw with, just to goof around and doodle, ive never had that spark with someone even when im currently in a community art server.

guhh

i appreciate the words, i hope u have fun too!!

this is something i struggle with, but it's an issue i am actively trying to solve ! ! only in the last month have i started to draw Almost every day, when before i would sometimes go weeks or even months without drawing after having a few days of productivity. so here is whats helped me : )

i dont force myself to do big projects anymore. if i feel compelled to do something bigger i will, but for the most part i try to just do what's fun :D a looooot of my sketchbook is genuinely just chicken scratch. i'll draw a lot of really fast and bad things, but it's so much fun and it allows me to feel like i've still done art that day even if i didnt produce anything "good". i experiment a lot, and have been trying to use new tools like highlighters and crayons, things i never used in my previous sketchbooks. also to me even just coloring in a coloring book counts and imo is always fun. sometimes i go outside and make art out of dirt and rocks and grass

i also keep a lot of things bookmarked for when im not feeling inspired that are pretty easy for me to do. yesterday i doodled all the dogs scooby doo has had a crush on. a lot of the time i will spin a wheel for a random pokemon or my singing monster or something like that and draw one

for the first time in my life im in a discord server with friends who are also artists and seeing how much they draw has motivated me to draw more too ^_^

i really really really resonate with wondering if this is your calling. i feel like so many other people draw all the time, and have since they were a kid, and their art is so interesting and special. i wonder sometimes if they have something i dont... but it's not true at all. art is playing, and everyone likes to play :3

art is playing, i really like that.

when i first started doing art just ~3 years ago, i saw this immense hurdle of dedication that i must have to draw. A type of dedication to pick up that pen/pencil out of your own time in place of something else you’d rather be doing. but that’s not really how it should be, shouldn’t it?

I never drew as a kid or had any hobbies of my own, and i guess that’s tainted my perception of what that is. This perception that what i do must yield something, like a harvest of my crops, but in the sense that my hobbies should output value. That’s not really playing is it.

well, that’s food for thought, for myself atleast. thank you needle, ill definitely experiment more! that’s when i had the most fun doing art anywaysss.