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Bumps old journal off my profile by Sunes
I will never understand the whole tagging/rating thing for journals, but w/e. Hello friends, I hope you're doing well.
I'm art blocking pretty dang hard and have been for the majority of this year. It sucks, and I don't like it. However, I'm at the point where I don't care anymore and I have been drawing anyway. Theoretically my art block will be all "yo this person is doing the thing anyway fuck" and will probably decide to go away. For now. But tomorrow is another day.
Can you tell that I'm just kinda pulling stuff out of my ass while typing this up?
No?
Okay. Well, I am. Just sayin'.
Currently I'm debating leaving FA again because Let's be real here it's still a pretty big shithole but it's literally the only place I get commissions from. (Actually that's a lie because sometime I get commissions from people on tumblr or folks will just hit me up on Skype.) But to be honest since I haven't been working on stuff I feel really unfit to even do commissions right now, and even when I do take them it's pretty tiring at times. I'm not really the kind of artist that's meant to do loads of art for money. I had a long stretch of time (almost 3 years!!) where I didn't take them at all, even when people asked, and it felt pretty dang good. I might just start taking more sporadic batches here and there as opposed to as a continuous thing because it burns me out.
I do have a couple of folks on my waitlist, though, and I plan to make them things when I feel up to it.
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Art is hard, friend. I hope the plan of 'draw anyway and fuck you, art block' yields something for you. Sometimes, it's good to take a break, sometimes it's good to muscle through; no way of knowing which is when or for how long, mang.
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Well, I think the worst thing you can do is to make yourself draw. Usually has the complete opposite effect, in my experience.
Just like... draw if you feel like it. Draw things you feel like drawing. Just draw that same thing over and over again. Give no fucks, my friend. Don't show anyone if you don't want to. Have a private sketch booklet. Doodle silly sketches while you watch good tv shows.
I've been doing just that for like... two months now. It's nice to have gotten out of the crippling depression of "can't draw for other people... can't... draw.....". I still can't if I sit down with the thought of "I'm gonna draw an awesome thing!". Nothing comes of it and I get so horribly depressed. Ah ha ha.... basically, lower your standards. "I'll just draw some shitty thing and expect it to be shitty, oh well w/e". If you set the bar low, you can only go up, right?
This is probably all terrible advice. I'm sorry. But I do have a sketch book full of lalafell ass and thighs! And they wouldn't lie to me... I think. No, they wouldn't.
I'm pretty much in the same boat as far as commissions go though. Art trades too. From how burnt out I get or even unable to start them, I don't think I'll ever take them again.