Well, the obvious thing would be to just start doodling. just draw random shizz to get back into the swing of things, and then slowly get into more artistic endeavors...you know, projects instead of doodles. Commissions might be a good motivator, but be careful as you don't want to overwhelm yourself and start taking money for things you can't deliver on.

Just take it easy. Find what has been distracting you from your art and limit it. Do some re-balancing. You still got it in you, you just need to let it sift back up to the surface again. :3

every time i think about opening commissions i see another artist opening commissions and i’m just like “well maybe someday i’ll be good enough”

i definitely think i should start drawing like, doodling every day or something, because every time i've done something like that i've always improved a lot--i actually wanted to do something like that while I was home on break last month but i'm also not the most like... creative person without prompting so i couldn't figure out some kind of theme or set of prompts to follow so i ended up not doing anything

i'm pretty sure what's been distracting me has been school, honestly

even though i'm studying art it does sometimes distract from my personal work and i don't go to a dedicated art school and i enjoy taking courses in other departments

so idk about that one

thank you for your input though, i appreciate it <3 most of that up there was rhetorical

"what kind of person can't find a job or an internship over the summer and literally does nothing in the three months they have free with no other obligations"
OOH PICK ME PICK ME
I HAVE DONE THAT FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS