Hopelessness
16 years ago
So today, I finally get around to trying to draw something. Myself behind a fairly large object. And I go into it thinking, mabye I'll put some actual effort into this. Make it look nice. And then I was an hour into the drawing, halfway through drawing this object. That's WAY too long. It's lengthy drawing time like that that's the reason I started quick-drawing my art in the first place.
I throw away that attempt, and decide to start over, this time intending to do the quick-drawing. I finish the object in less than 15 minutes. Still, I figure I could put in a bit of effort, sketch myself overlapping the object so I can make sure that my size and position behind the object is right. But that will make the lineart rather messy, so I grab an ink pen, because I had decided inking my art will make the finished lineart clearer and less messy, and start inking over the object.
And then partway into that, I realize that even though I'll be behind the object, I'm going to be resting on top of that object, so I actually would have some of me drawn on top of the object. Unfortunately, I had already inked over where this would happen, thus ruining the image. At this point I gave up.
Drawing just isn't fun, anymore. I'd really like to get a few of these images I have in mind done, but there's so many things I'd rather do than draw. And there's also the comic I started. Wish I never did. But now that it's started, I want to get it done, but it's never going to get done if I don't enjoy my art. I really don't know what I'm going to do.
I throw away that attempt, and decide to start over, this time intending to do the quick-drawing. I finish the object in less than 15 minutes. Still, I figure I could put in a bit of effort, sketch myself overlapping the object so I can make sure that my size and position behind the object is right. But that will make the lineart rather messy, so I grab an ink pen, because I had decided inking my art will make the finished lineart clearer and less messy, and start inking over the object.
And then partway into that, I realize that even though I'll be behind the object, I'm going to be resting on top of that object, so I actually would have some of me drawn on top of the object. Unfortunately, I had already inked over where this would happen, thus ruining the image. At this point I gave up.
Drawing just isn't fun, anymore. I'd really like to get a few of these images I have in mind done, but there's so many things I'd rather do than draw. And there's also the comic I started. Wish I never did. But now that it's started, I want to get it done, but it's never going to get done if I don't enjoy my art. I really don't know what I'm going to do.
Tablets are too expensive.