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Moving Forward
4 years ago
It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these.
This last year’s been pretty rough and I’ve been dealing with a lot of stuff lately. That said, I would like to start focusing more on my artwork, namely because I’ve realized a fundamental issue with how I end up creating things. I’ve been suspecting I have OCD for some time since I’m more obsessed with creating art the “correct” way rather than at all, and this has led to a good deal of inner turmoil and plenty of days, weeks, and months of just agonizing over finding the “right time” to do things. Well, I’m starting to get really fed up with this part of myself, and I feel like not only for my own sake but also the sake of my friends I need to actually start doing the things I want to do instead of just saying I’m going to do them.
This has been both helped and hindered by a recent endeavor to collect references of where exactly I want my art to go. I still feel amateurish after all this time of being on this site, and I want to improve, but I have to know what I want to go for. I feel like I’ve made at least some progress through just observing how other artists depict things, but of course, I’d like to implement them as well.
There has been a bit of a complicating factor in that there are a lot of different types of content I’d like to do, from serious pieces, abstract designs, and incredibly self-indulgent works. I don’t really want to make a bunch of FA accounts that I have to manage, so for the time being I’ll just be uploading stuff here. There’s a possibility I might also make an 18+ Twitter for my more explicit things, since at the moment my Twitter is SFW only.
(And don’t worry, I have no intentions of only using Twitter as my art hub – I have a lot to say on that matter, but that will be for another time.)
Ultimately, I’m going to get to surpass this mental hurdle of having to do a bunch of ridiculous shit just to accomplish things I want to do. But goddamn, is it hard to do when your brain tells you that you have to clean your entire room just to draw a picture of a hare.
This last year’s been pretty rough and I’ve been dealing with a lot of stuff lately. That said, I would like to start focusing more on my artwork, namely because I’ve realized a fundamental issue with how I end up creating things. I’ve been suspecting I have OCD for some time since I’m more obsessed with creating art the “correct” way rather than at all, and this has led to a good deal of inner turmoil and plenty of days, weeks, and months of just agonizing over finding the “right time” to do things. Well, I’m starting to get really fed up with this part of myself, and I feel like not only for my own sake but also the sake of my friends I need to actually start doing the things I want to do instead of just saying I’m going to do them.
This has been both helped and hindered by a recent endeavor to collect references of where exactly I want my art to go. I still feel amateurish after all this time of being on this site, and I want to improve, but I have to know what I want to go for. I feel like I’ve made at least some progress through just observing how other artists depict things, but of course, I’d like to implement them as well.
There has been a bit of a complicating factor in that there are a lot of different types of content I’d like to do, from serious pieces, abstract designs, and incredibly self-indulgent works. I don’t really want to make a bunch of FA accounts that I have to manage, so for the time being I’ll just be uploading stuff here. There’s a possibility I might also make an 18+ Twitter for my more explicit things, since at the moment my Twitter is SFW only.
(And don’t worry, I have no intentions of only using Twitter as my art hub – I have a lot to say on that matter, but that will be for another time.)
Ultimately, I’m going to get to surpass this mental hurdle of having to do a bunch of ridiculous shit just to accomplish things I want to do. But goddamn, is it hard to do when your brain tells you that you have to clean your entire room just to draw a picture of a hare.
