Exams are over! Done with! Finished!
However, I have to say I'm quite anxious to know the results this time.
On the one hand I can't wait to know and want to know them now, on the other hand ... rather not.
It's rather weird actually, but I hope all this stress will be for no reason in the end.
As you may have noticed I also haven't been posting a lot of art lately.
The reason for that is going to sound silly, but every time I start a drawing I just feel too
blergh" about it to finish it. My drawings don't come out looking like I intend them to look and it's frustrated me to the point of having an art block. There's also a pretty personal vent-art piece that I'm trying to get out of my system, but every time I start on it, the anatomy just comes out looking horrid and I get frustrated and I give up. Which is pretty annoying since I
need to get that piece and the accompanying feeling out of my system, but I feel artistically incapable to get it out in a way that I think looks great. Which is absolutely not the point of vent-art, as it should show emotion foremost, instead of being pretty to look at.
If I get it out of my system, chances are it will either:
- be horrid to look at with a disastrous anatomy
- be with a somewhat decent anatomy, but no emotion at all (like almost all of my pieces)
Which is another thing that frustrates me: I want my pieces to carry emotion but I have
zero idea on how to do that. I just feel like I'm back to square one with my art, starting from scratch. But at least it can only get better from here!
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And the style is what's causing the trouble at the moment. I want and </i>need</i> to change it since I'm not happy at all with the fact I seem to be stuck at something manga-like when I draw. But every time I practice realism, my drawings just end up looking like complete garbage.
I know it's a matter of sticking to it and working towards improvement, but the drive to do so is dwindling a bit at the moment and it's not a great feeling.
Usually when I use dA-stock it's to get the pose right, but never to practice realism. Time to start drawing differently and with a different approach! c:
And thank you for the advice and encouragement!
Mind you, I was only 15 when I tried, so maybe I should try again.
It's for the exact reason I still have my drawings from years before.
I purged from time o time (old sketches), but kept what I was proud of or works that acted as some sort of milestone (new techniques used etc). Looking back at those always is loads of fun. :'D
Yeah, I'm the same there.
You should do it anyway, no?
I mean, just practice for practice sake.. or just do it, and then... hopefully it becomes something natural?
Perhaps you could make a thread.. have you searched Google?
And I am working on some pieces, though they're all sketches mostly.
Maybe I should compile a sketchdump again.
With the vent-art piece: I tried working on it to make it come "naturally", but it's just not happening. So I'm putting it aside for a little bit until I can express it, instead of becoming more and more frustrated because I can't. It'd be so much easier if i could write it out, but alas i'm not a writer.
And I have looked up some techniques that i'm trying at the moment. Emphasis on the trying.