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8/15 Update - The Return of the squeKing
6 years ago
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Hey guys! I hope all of you are doing perfectly squeaktastic today~
So I'm sure it's not a surprise from my hundreds of years of inactivity on here, I've been dealing with a busy life. More importantly an art haitus of a sort. Although I don't feel guilty about my pseudo-haitus, I do hope I haven't let down you lovely watchers (and you even fewer readers of this journal).
Part of the reason I'm being so slow with art is actually due to my own self criticism. I'm a lot better at noticing flaws in art than I am knowing how to fix them. It's sort of akin to the way someone may not know how to read sheet music, but they can play by ear. I draw by ear!
Even stranger is the way I go about draw is by making dozens of sketchy/bad lines, and erasing until it looks right. This method sometimes makes me totally blind to huge anatomy mistakes when I start to grow numb to "no this isn't right" over and over again and settle. That ends up making me hate my art when I go back to look at a finished product.
I am my biggest critic.
Because of all this crap with how I am as an artist, I feel the need to apologize- specifically to the couple commission inquiries I initially accepted and then later rejected. I may have said "Life issues" or something like that, and I promise that is not untrue. It just fails to highlight why I really can't finish pieces.
I am working on this.
My most important step to getting past my self-criticism is first and foremost by drawing for personal purposes instead of cash in spite of how strapped I am for money. I wish I could say I am 100% in love with commission work, because I know a lot of artists who adore doing them. I generally just can't get into that sort of passionate drawing mode when I'm indifferent to a concept or fetish, even when the character is absolutely adorable. I've also never had a commissioner that I didn't adore. You all are so very sweet, patient, and creative!
I also need to stop blocking what I consider low quality from getting posted. That's a tough one for me because I know when I do end up opening commission slots, I want only my best to be on display. Unfortunately that just makes me feel like commissioners are getting a false idea of my skills, and I realize that's a catch 22. Regardless I need to post finished pieces even if I'm not crazy for them, whether they're anatomically correct or not.
I do hope that you are all willing to continue to support me.
Anyhow, that's that. I'm glad to have a platform, small as it may be, to talk about these things and explain myself. I greatly appreciate your love and kindness in spite of my slowness and lack of content.
All the squeaky smooches~
Styles
Daffodil Squeaks
~remsaman
keep bein stylish~ everyone improves in time
SqueakyTrap
~squeakytrap
OP
Thanks <3 I'm looking forward to it!
