wish i could help, i feel the same way though.

http://i.imgur.com/hLMh5.gif

What will we doooo?

Smashing! *snort*

i don't knowww :C *sad face sad face*

....what is your cutie mark?

horse shoe with a blade of grass .3.

*hugs* :<

Yes give me your pity hugs. *worst artist ever* XD *hugs*

SOON

I gotcha covered bro. Here's what to do if you find yourself wanting to stop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i9Fa2UrDAk

Yes, yes that was a great help. Changed my life for sure.

Normally I would suggest to not push yourself into it, as that can lead to not wanting to work despite the availability to do so. But it sounds to me as though the urge to draw just never seems to come as well? And then if you try to force it, that just ends badly?

Yeah, just like that. Sucks.

Historically, is there anything that gets you in a creative mood? Taking a nature walk, looking at other artwork, reading a book? Maybe something that'd kick your brain into the proper mode?

Typically it's always late and I'm in a good mood. Comfortable temperature, maybe a little music. I was able to draw a little when me and Razerz got together at a coffee shop downtown with some friends, so I guess the atmosphere is important. I just couldn't work on the stuff I needed to =/ But maybe I am trying to force it. I keep setting out a commission for Firon to work on, ink a few lines, get paranoid about making mistakes and can't concentrate. I have no undo button with a pen.

In my particular case, braving the barricades of artistic reluctance straight after a taxing day of work a high stakes gamble that often puts me out of productive commission for up to a week. What I've found helpful in this case is to make a buffer of miscellaneous thingies to take care off while my creative skills go off their cooldown lockdown: exercise, wash some dishes, take a catnap(that invariably leads to me waking in 5 AM the next morning), vacuum, by a can of olives, extort a squeaky mouse from a cat. After that, there would be a *chance* of going into a productive mode without having to wipe away the tears of blood.

The ultimate demotivational feat here would be to remind you that you are not getting paid for your personal artistic ventures, and none save your friends place any expectations on you in that department, so whipping yourself into action while adhering to your standards of quality is understandably difficult. I can relate to being hard on yourself, but unless you're going for the whole Spartan discipline thing and making schedule timetables, there is some leeway to enjoy. It's like listening to that one awesome song that you're very excited at the moment over and over again - the grim truth is after a hundredth listen you'll get burned out on it *will* need some fresh air time before it strikes you a poignantly again.

Another thing you could try is bribing your neurohormonal background into conceding by making sure you're very comfortable, have enough light and have all songbirds behind your windows properly exterminated. Or you may get some extremely boring game with gargantuan loading time and doodle in the interim, ditching the stupid game after your clutch has caught on.

Oh, and I also gravitate towards late evening in my creative moonshines, which if why I waste much of many otherwise unoccupied holidays.

Good luck getting back on track and riding high after that !

Much to consider. I will keep referring to this. Thanks very much Dreamy :3

I know what ya meani keep trying to draw that gift for you and comming up blank

You owe me a gift!? Oh snap I didn't even know!

For your birthday silly *Hug*

....right :D Bad memory. Awesome though! *returnhug*

*giggles* I know that one all too well

Still not working?

Only one thing of note, otherwise just some crummy sketches here and there. No finished commissions yet. I've been in a bit of a slump the past couple of months. Mostly booze and video games keeping me busy, but I have been writing plot for comic books. (no thumbnails yet)

Baby steps...
Don't stress over making an amazing finished piece of artwork over night. Pushing yourself, when you have no motivation wont get you anywhere.
You should pick a theme, and stick to it, and draw one thing a day for a whole month. Don't need to spend anymore then an hour or 2 on this one thing, don't stress and have fun. My current theme is speedpaintings for landscapes...
http://bonepile.tumblr.com/tagged/P.....ect%3APostBurn
some are from photos, some raw imagination...

You don't even need a theme, just draw one thing a day, and spend no more then a couple hours on it.
It will get you back into the habit

Sounds like you need to drop one, or the other, or even both for a while. Read a book instead, it will fuel your creative muse. It really sounds like the only thing stopping you, is you!

Also, I should catch you around sometime and show you my 50 pages of thumbnails/rough draft for chapter one of my comic...

Great advice! I might as well start right now, see if I can get something drawn. Not doing anything else with today. I've been in a fantasy-adventure mood. I'll see if I can do something with that.

My biggest problem lately is the usual ego-trip, yep. I sit in my studio with some stuff out and think, Man I'm just not good enough. Why bother? No one wants to hire me anyway. I'll never go anywhere. I know it's stupid to think but I keep hearing myself think it. Self esteem issues are hard to shake. I don't know why I always think I need to be better when I should just be myself. I think the submissions I gave to that game company recently they didn't want to pay or credit me for is still getting me down. I feel dumpy even mentioning it, need to move on.

I saw one of those speed paintings earlier, the one from May 13 with the stairs and the patterned floor. They're looking better and better. Really iconic compositions :O I tried a little hilly speed painting about a month ago after seeing you do them. Turned out alright.

And really, I'm incredibly thankful you're even paying attention. I've been in such a slump the past couple of months I didn't even know what to do with myself. Friends have been getting me gaming with them but I haven't done shit else. I even promised pictures to a couple of people and haven't done them, but I feel guilty about it every day.

I'd love to see comic drafts 8)

http://devour.com/video/draplins-50-point-plan/

Nice :D That reminds me, people want me to move to portland with them.