Okay, What the Heck?
8 years ago
General
I woke up today and went to do some art and uh... well, yeah.
I'm trying to put together some YCHs to post up for another rush. Like, I got one with an exploding sleigh and a character in the foreground trying to hide a rocket launcher.
Anyway, I uh...
I forgot how to draw faces... and heads.
I don't quite know how this happened, but I do the circle for the base and it's all just uh... gone.
I tried a few for practice and they look like they were drawn by someone else. The style is a lot different.
Has this happened to anyone else before? You think you know how to draw something, and then suddenly it's just gone?
*Grumble, grumble.*
Anyway, yeah... what bazooka? I was thinking of doing a few post-Christmas themed, and throw in a bunch of Winter-styled ones for January, but uh... if I can't draw heads... I don't know what to do.
Guess I gotta go back to practicing random stuff.
Hold on the torsos. I got enough that when I practice them, I have a fair pool to pull from.
I'm trying to put together some YCHs to post up for another rush. Like, I got one with an exploding sleigh and a character in the foreground trying to hide a rocket launcher.
Anyway, I uh...
I forgot how to draw faces... and heads.
I don't quite know how this happened, but I do the circle for the base and it's all just uh... gone.
I tried a few for practice and they look like they were drawn by someone else. The style is a lot different.
Has this happened to anyone else before? You think you know how to draw something, and then suddenly it's just gone?
*Grumble, grumble.*
Anyway, yeah... what bazooka? I was thinking of doing a few post-Christmas themed, and throw in a bunch of Winter-styled ones for January, but uh... if I can't draw heads... I don't know what to do.
Guess I gotta go back to practicing random stuff.
Hold on the torsos. I got enough that when I practice them, I have a fair pool to pull from.
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I normally see it when I draw for too long and too hard at a time or when I have art block and force myself to draw for the sake of drawing my way out of it.
I can see it as well when i'm improving, and it doesn't look like my old art. It's nice when it's an improvement, but still odd at first.
IDK, maybe stepping back for a moment might help? Do something you like for a while, listen to good music, eat something, whatever for a while, then come back.
Of course, time away depends on yourself. For me, it's a few days, week or two at the most. Others need to just step away and go out to eat before they're good to go. You know you, so do what's best.
Also, since this might be a reason, when you're rushing art (like your YCH you want to get done quickly) and know you have a due date for when to post and when to complete, you can make yourself stressed, so your art suffers.
I actually tried to do art saturday and had this issue, so I've been playing video games since. Today it just looks alien.
Rather than stop and do something else, I've decided to draw through it. See what it ends up looking like. So I'll have a bunch of strange looking heads posted soon.
Who knows, maybe they'll fit my new torsos a bit better. lol
So, since you're gonna draw through it and I KNOW you can record it, here's smoethign that might help
You've seen yourself draw before (it's on youtube even), so why don't you record how you draw the heads now and compare side by side?
This was a sort of personal thing I did and it improved my art, but it also let me see my mistakes as I drew them, and (while I don't think you stream) it let me see how I present my drawing as I do so.
Maybe seeing how you drew then and how you're drawing now might let you see where things are starting to go down or where you start doing things differently? Let's you pinpoint where you're making your mistakes and when, and you can think of how to fix it.
Mmmm, and I'll draw some of your heads, too. :P
(seriously tho, don't go outta your way to draw me gift art even as thanks. Seeing your art is gift enough my man, even if not of my chars. Ya do good work, thats why you're in my fav. list and I recommended you in my featured journal.)
Plus, I have me drawing Claude on video already. So is fine for comparison.
Anyways, go ahead and do so if it's to help you improve. I just, y'know, wanna give approval on having it posted if you plan to once done.
Make sure ye didn't give him 3 eyes and 7 noses and all. I don't know how "alien" your heads are looking now lol