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6 years ago
Okay, first things first let me say, I am sorry I couldn't be more involved with things.
I want to be a better artist, but there are skills that I desperately need to learn. Soft skills like how to balance two things at once for more than a week, and how to keep an art practice going while I'm in school. I might have other priorities in my life, trying to get things on track, but it's a long waiting game and I regret my conditioned state of turning off my brain the second I get home from classes. It means I don't get my work done ahead of time. If I don't do that I can never feel comfortable taking the time to draw, play games, read, or do any fucking thing that isn't zoning out in front of the computer waiting until the eleventh hour to get my work done.
This is true for more than just transformation work, it is the bare minimum I need to do in order to be anything more than an admirer of art and comics. But I haven't been able to succeed with it in the past and that scares me. It makes it hard to try again. I think about other priorities and it becomes difficult to keep organized. Schools ask students to be independent and to take the initiative, but they rarely teach it. The second classes stop and there are no more instructions I'm suddenly listless. It takes a good week or two to shake myself loose from that, and it's usually with the help of family and friends.
I'd prefer to not talk about heavy woe-is-me stuff here. We all know it, we all deal with the same shit. Here is for the goofy, fun shit that we're all magically drawn to. But I've been keeping some spiny chunks of anxiety in my chest for a few months and I just need people to hear me scream and know that there's one more poor sap that struggles to get their life together.
Also, I didn't really want to speak up until I had some more work to show, so just in case you haven't seen it yet here is the finished second half of Package Delivery. An impulsive birthday present 6 months in the making. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/31900543/
Can you really call that impulsive?
Shut up boyo, or else you get the whip
I want to be a better artist, but there are skills that I desperately need to learn. Soft skills like how to balance two things at once for more than a week, and how to keep an art practice going while I'm in school. I might have other priorities in my life, trying to get things on track, but it's a long waiting game and I regret my conditioned state of turning off my brain the second I get home from classes. It means I don't get my work done ahead of time. If I don't do that I can never feel comfortable taking the time to draw, play games, read, or do any fucking thing that isn't zoning out in front of the computer waiting until the eleventh hour to get my work done.
This is true for more than just transformation work, it is the bare minimum I need to do in order to be anything more than an admirer of art and comics. But I haven't been able to succeed with it in the past and that scares me. It makes it hard to try again. I think about other priorities and it becomes difficult to keep organized. Schools ask students to be independent and to take the initiative, but they rarely teach it. The second classes stop and there are no more instructions I'm suddenly listless. It takes a good week or two to shake myself loose from that, and it's usually with the help of family and friends.
I'd prefer to not talk about heavy woe-is-me stuff here. We all know it, we all deal with the same shit. Here is for the goofy, fun shit that we're all magically drawn to. But I've been keeping some spiny chunks of anxiety in my chest for a few months and I just need people to hear me scream and know that there's one more poor sap that struggles to get their life together.
Also, I didn't really want to speak up until I had some more work to show, so just in case you haven't seen it yet here is the finished second half of Package Delivery. An impulsive birthday present 6 months in the making. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/31900543/
Shut up boyo, or else you get the whip
In any case, I’m glad you’re back, and I hope you keep up the good fight against melting into a blob. I love your art and I can’t wait to see more :)
Also I feel like I should point out the paralysis of indecision and motivation are problems I think everyone deals with when they are taking steps to get into things. Even things they really like and want to do. I know I struggle with it a ton.
There are a lot of steps I take towards combating it when it pops up, but ultimately I want to say, it gets a lot easier. The first time you succeed and make something after getting yourself worked up to get started, you'll feel great. The next time you do it, it will be that much easier. Find people who can help motivate and inspire you, and let them :B
We all get our turns through the wringer, for sure. It's always good to see ya comic. We're right there with ya, man.
-Spoon