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5 years ago
Hi everyone! I'm going on a small rant about myself and my art. Here we go -
Its been about a year since things started getting weird in my life and I’m glad I’ve made it through it so far. Things are still sort of weird I suppose, but maybe I’m learning to really overcome it. I’m overcoming all of my personal problems anyway. This is all personal stuff no one wants to hear too much about so lemme talk a little about art, yeah?
Last few weeks I’ve been finishing up a class and decided I needed to put all my focus into that. But, now that I’ve passed this class, I really need to get back to drawing stuff. Someone wrote a journal recently in which they asked if anyone else felt intimidated whenever other artists uploaded artwork and I think they hit that nail right on the head – I feel that pressure, too, and it sucks. I can’t put my finger on what it really is but whenever I see other artists or peers uploading stuff while I’m sitting around with a thumb up my butt I get this weird anxiety. I feel like I got to be doing something, too. Anyone else feel that at all?
Anyway, I’m gonna find some stuff to draw. Maybe just sketches for a while since I’ve struck a wall on doing backgrounds. I don't know if I should draw the background first and then the characters on top of it or vise-versa. Not sure how much time I should spend on all the details in the background either, since the character, or characters in the frame are going to obscure much of it anyway. I also don’t know who to draw. I’ve got several anthro characters that I thought I was gonna make into some kind of comic and I feel like I need to respect that to at least some degree but I know most people ain't that interested. Robots and Aeromorphs seem to have a lot of interest among a large portion of my watchers so maybe I should satisfy that demographic. Hell, it would satisfy me, too, so there isn’t much harm in that. I just don’t know what my focus should be. I need to establish a little identity in all of my characters on all fronts I think to make them more interesting. I think everyone would appreciate that.
Its very frustrating that I lack a lot of criticism on my work. Its hard to judge what aspects of my art I need to improve if no-one is calling it out. I understand and appreciate constructive criticism and I’ve never been demoralized by it. Maybe I feel awkward to actively ask for it.
Alright, that’s all I got. This is probably one of my weakest structured journals come to think of it but it is what it is. Maybe I’ll find the focus to upload at least one thing before the week is out, but we’ll see.
Hope everyone is doing alright. Y’all have a good weekend!
-Mikey
Its been about a year since things started getting weird in my life and I’m glad I’ve made it through it so far. Things are still sort of weird I suppose, but maybe I’m learning to really overcome it. I’m overcoming all of my personal problems anyway. This is all personal stuff no one wants to hear too much about so lemme talk a little about art, yeah?
Last few weeks I’ve been finishing up a class and decided I needed to put all my focus into that. But, now that I’ve passed this class, I really need to get back to drawing stuff. Someone wrote a journal recently in which they asked if anyone else felt intimidated whenever other artists uploaded artwork and I think they hit that nail right on the head – I feel that pressure, too, and it sucks. I can’t put my finger on what it really is but whenever I see other artists or peers uploading stuff while I’m sitting around with a thumb up my butt I get this weird anxiety. I feel like I got to be doing something, too. Anyone else feel that at all?
Anyway, I’m gonna find some stuff to draw. Maybe just sketches for a while since I’ve struck a wall on doing backgrounds. I don't know if I should draw the background first and then the characters on top of it or vise-versa. Not sure how much time I should spend on all the details in the background either, since the character, or characters in the frame are going to obscure much of it anyway. I also don’t know who to draw. I’ve got several anthro characters that I thought I was gonna make into some kind of comic and I feel like I need to respect that to at least some degree but I know most people ain't that interested. Robots and Aeromorphs seem to have a lot of interest among a large portion of my watchers so maybe I should satisfy that demographic. Hell, it would satisfy me, too, so there isn’t much harm in that. I just don’t know what my focus should be. I need to establish a little identity in all of my characters on all fronts I think to make them more interesting. I think everyone would appreciate that.
Its very frustrating that I lack a lot of criticism on my work. Its hard to judge what aspects of my art I need to improve if no-one is calling it out. I understand and appreciate constructive criticism and I’ve never been demoralized by it. Maybe I feel awkward to actively ask for it.
Alright, that’s all I got. This is probably one of my weakest structured journals come to think of it but it is what it is. Maybe I’ll find the focus to upload at least one thing before the week is out, but we’ll see.
Hope everyone is doing alright. Y’all have a good weekend!
-Mikey
