you stopped drawing?

I haven't drawn since February.

just lack of motivation? or to busy?

It's definitely more of the former than the latter- if anything, I've had plenty of time for drawing due to being off of work for health reasons. I just. Can't bring myself to draw anything.

dang that's pretty intense man. you should try gestures just to warm up maybe that might help. i know what my ex used to do is just walk down to our local park and sit there for hours drawing the people.

you artwork is spectacular and you should be able to bounce back in no time dude ^^

just fine your mojo is all you need to do. pencil to paper and let it happen :3

gah, this sounds like me... i've been trying to force myself to draw but when i do my style doesn't come through and it looks disproportionate and just wrong.

x.x if you find a cure, please do tell.

I never felt really compelled to draw, and didn't feel capable of putting on paper when I did have ideas, they weren't clear enough.

I think it's like growing up. You do something for a few years, you don't know what you'd do in place of it. A few years later maybe you pick something up and remembered that you've forgotten about it. Growing out of things should be painless.

I hear ya, I'm too busy/tired to draw. I have several WIP's but no time to finish them :/

I've never experienced artblock (for I have never progressed pass the stickfigure) , but writers block is something I always have problems with. I try writing, get halfway through, then just kinda stop. So I just write small, random stuff that comes to mind. Notes, scribbles, quotes, etc. Stuff like that gives me ideas and motivation to work on things. I suppose you could do the same until you find out how youre gonna get back in the saddle. Works for me, at least.

Would having people around help? Try a stream?
Pick up Photoshop and try doing little gray thumbnails of cool compositions?
Try drawing something with your left hand or foot?
Listen to music and meditate a bit before trying?

When you figure out how to reinspire yourself, tell me; I haven't been able to finish writing a chapter of a story in two months.

Just draw a bunch of random wiggles, then squint at it really hard and daw what it looks like.

I don't set out to draw shit when I grab my sketchbook most times. Just a head doodle will do, or an eye, usually I am screwing around with those when I make something else. >_>

Sometimes those angry emotional bombs hit me though and I toss that sketch book at the bed seething with self loathing, and pencil fueled hatred for my befouling disability to learn anything or effectively apply the simplest technique to the paper at hand. That voice in the back of my mind tells me to give up, and goes on endless charades, until the pencil weighs a million tons. I grip that pencil, and tell that voice to fuck off if I can!! This pencil going to make a line, and it doesn't matter where it goes at this moment, as long as the voice doesn't win out leaving me with a blank page! Sometimes it does though, often I get urges after hearing music, or seeing certain things, remembering that there are still subjects and feelings and ideas I need to express...

Just try something different; different media, different subject matter etc.
Eventually you'll go "Oh this would look good like that.." and there's your way back in.

I do environment studies and speedpaints. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't. I know how you feel-it's a really rough thing to go through and it's an awful feeling.


I wish there were motivation drinks or something. XD

Maybe try redrawing an old picture from a few years ago? That works for me when I can't think of anything else :B

Art misses you too