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It's been awhile.
So art is like this really weird creeping thing for me, like it's always right there behind me waiting to be did. And that's not to say it's necessarily bad or anything, mind you. I always want to draw, but it never feels quite right. Like something always feels a little off. I thought a ton of practice would make it feel right, because I thought for sure I'ld improve, but I feel like that didn't quite make it right. So around the time I made the last few posts I did, I quit my then current job (of like 6 years). Mostly because I was sick to death of it. I started drawing like mad, but I never really thought it good enough to ask for money in exchange for it. Maybe I'm just a perfectionist or something, no idea.
So I started focusing all my time on getting a job. Well, that and some small game design stuff. And I got another job at a Deli. Which was okay. And then some shit flared up while I was working at the deli and I just straight up collapsed one day. So I've had this thing wrong with one of my legs for like 2 or 3 years now, right? It was kind of mild, and I never really gave it a lot of thought. It hurt sometimes so I would sit down for a second and be done. While working at the deli, my whole leg was in agony and eventually gave out. Fuck me. So I go to the doctor and he tells me I probably have some kind of a severed nerve or something in my spine that's been killing other nerves or some shit for like 3 years. So now I have to go to do physical therapy and take medication for this, and might need surgery or something. and I'm just like, "Fuck, man." So of course the first thing I have to do is quit the Deli job. Can't do it, obviously.
So now I'm unemployed again and slightly worse off than I was. So I figure I'll go back into an art hole for a bit and see if anything cool comes out. Maybe this time I'll learn to lighten up and take commissions. I have no idea. I was wondering if I should do comics or something like that for a bit. Also, I have a bunch of terrible art practice and was thinking about collecting a bunch of it together and just tossing it into scraps. It's mostly me experimenting with making certain characters look different.
Oh also also,
MaRoid18 is doing an art thing (and is a cool person). You should go check it out if you haven't already. It's looking pretty daunting.
So art is like this really weird creeping thing for me, like it's always right there behind me waiting to be did. And that's not to say it's necessarily bad or anything, mind you. I always want to draw, but it never feels quite right. Like something always feels a little off. I thought a ton of practice would make it feel right, because I thought for sure I'ld improve, but I feel like that didn't quite make it right. So around the time I made the last few posts I did, I quit my then current job (of like 6 years). Mostly because I was sick to death of it. I started drawing like mad, but I never really thought it good enough to ask for money in exchange for it. Maybe I'm just a perfectionist or something, no idea.
So I started focusing all my time on getting a job. Well, that and some small game design stuff. And I got another job at a Deli. Which was okay. And then some shit flared up while I was working at the deli and I just straight up collapsed one day. So I've had this thing wrong with one of my legs for like 2 or 3 years now, right? It was kind of mild, and I never really gave it a lot of thought. It hurt sometimes so I would sit down for a second and be done. While working at the deli, my whole leg was in agony and eventually gave out. Fuck me. So I go to the doctor and he tells me I probably have some kind of a severed nerve or something in my spine that's been killing other nerves or some shit for like 3 years. So now I have to go to do physical therapy and take medication for this, and might need surgery or something. and I'm just like, "Fuck, man." So of course the first thing I have to do is quit the Deli job. Can't do it, obviously.
So now I'm unemployed again and slightly worse off than I was. So I figure I'll go back into an art hole for a bit and see if anything cool comes out. Maybe this time I'll learn to lighten up and take commissions. I have no idea. I was wondering if I should do comics or something like that for a bit. Also, I have a bunch of terrible art practice and was thinking about collecting a bunch of it together and just tossing it into scraps. It's mostly me experimenting with making certain characters look different.
Oh also also,
MaRoid18 is doing an art thing (and is a cool person). You should go check it out if you haven't already. It's looking pretty daunting.
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When things just feel off like that, it's your eye trying to identify something that your hand is struggling with. Usually you need a second pair of eyes to spot the problems to fix, because trying to do it on your own can take longer. Grinding hard to push out pictures can be good and bad in itself. The good part is that you grow and gain speed and confidence, but you have to slow down and spot the errors and areas to improve on (which kind of loops back to the first part of this). You need to allow yourself some rest and pace yourself as well, to let your mind process it. Personally, I'd love to see the sketches and practices you've done, because it is interesting to see the bare-bones work and sketchy linework that eventually build itself up to a complete picture. Or in some cases, just end up being a series of scribbles and messy lines that were abanoned in favour of other stuff.
It really sucks to hear that you've had such an awful time lately, what with the leg and everything surrounding that and your personal life. I've been wondering from time to time what you've been up to, but I couldn't imagine something like that would've gone down. Things could've certainly been worse, but that in itself is bad enough as it is.
It really sucks to hear that you've had such an awful time lately, what with the leg and everything surrounding that and your personal life. I've been wondering from time to time what you've been up to, but I couldn't imagine something like that would've gone down. Things could've certainly been worse, but that in itself is bad enough as it is.
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