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Lift me up
15 years ago
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Kind of in an art slump. I feel my knowledge of anatomy has degenerated at least a year's worth of practice, and things in general just don't seem to work like they used to. Or maybe they never did.
It's one of those days all music just feels like noise, and every mediocre line I put on my digital canvas gets under my skin. Certainly, looking back at my work a year ago, I have improved. But it's still not enough, and today feels like I'm going backwards. My fear of failure is growing.
Every time I draw something wrong, something ugly, I feel...tainted, and I begin to fear I've been somehow infected by it. Dirt that won't come off.
Give me a hand, throw me a rope. I want to get out of this pit of suck.
Lift me up, I want you to lift me up
Hold me up, I want you to hold me up
Lift me up, better to be a better me.
It's one of those days all music just feels like noise, and every mediocre line I put on my digital canvas gets under my skin. Certainly, looking back at my work a year ago, I have improved. But it's still not enough, and today feels like I'm going backwards. My fear of failure is growing.
Every time I draw something wrong, something ugly, I feel...tainted, and I begin to fear I've been somehow infected by it. Dirt that won't come off.
Give me a hand, throw me a rope. I want to get out of this pit of suck.
Lift me up, I want you to lift me up
Hold me up, I want you to hold me up
Lift me up, better to be a better me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD6zhpHT0xM
Unless ya wanna distraction, then there is game that I love getting people to play together with, or another if you don't wanna download something.
stupid video games like halo or grindy online rpgs(my examples)or something that don't take any thought are good ways to recharge your output
eventually you'll get something in your head that you just have to draw, but is only my experience
Also, haha, I think I've had my share of breaks for now. I've been playing so much Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress my brains are ready to fall out. If I want to improve, I've got to get cracking, which is the second half of my conundrum. I'm terrified I'll never amount to anything, and just wallow in a little puddle of mediocrity. So I've got to push on, but right now it's just...so hard.
I guess that's how it'll have to be then, isn't it? There's no easy way to Kung Fu. Everyone's gotta do it the hard way.
and usually during each art period I get I devise a new way to draw or color something, also summin to think about
Keep at it and it'll come around. Read some books, try some new styles and techniques, go back and work on some fundamentals. Sooner or later you'll find the way forward and all this frustration will be forgotten.