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04 - Bad Habits and what I plan to do about them by Macchabee

It has come to my attention that I’ve grown increasingly slack with producing artwork outside of classwork.

Giving myself more work may seem counterintuitive to getting my ass out from under the pile of other shit to do… but I also can’t give myself any more lenience.

I’m asking you guys to help me get back in the game.

It’s not that I have art block, I just have some terrible bad habits that i desperately need to work out of. I wanna be doing art! I want to be producing PILES of work! I wanna get ART BUFF. ART SWOLE. I WANNA GET ART FUCKING JACKED.

I still have a major commission to work on and every time I think about it I’m like “holy shit get it in gear”. I acknowledge that it really needs to get done. At the same time, I feel like if I don’t have time to devote to finishing the commission or schoolwork, that I can’t allow myself to draw anything else. At this point, I feel like I’m out of shape. You can’t run a marathon without training every day first. Or shouldn’t.

So what am I asking from you?

Suggestions. Prompts. Books. Websites.

Though, if you have words of advice for the struggling artist, by all means, come forward.

I once read “If you aren’t drawing every day, art should not be your profession”. Half of me thought it smelled an awful lot like elitist bullshit. The other half recognizes the truth. I haven’t been drawing. I need to change a whole lot about myself, and I think I can start here.

04 - Bad Habits and what I plan to do about them

Macchabee

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    houndbound

    I think just realizing this is a very necessary first step, so good job on that! I'm in a similar boat, definitely need to be drawing more but I need to push myself to finish obligations first!

    Something I've seen other artists do that might be neat to try is playing with shapes? Pick an animal and draw it with a bunch of different body types- different facial features, broad shoulders, slim waist, vice versa, etc... It can be a really fun (and addicting) loosening up exercise and voila, you've just been productive and probably learned a few new things in the process.

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    Ace

    Hell yeah dude, I miss you.
    I miss your art too.

    (But mostly I miss you.)

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    Cisqur

    I find that physically interacting with whatever I'm trying to draw really extremely helps me. I learned most of what I know about drawing clothing by learning to sew, actually.

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    Antiquity-Varmint

    Lot of artists, even the great ones do have bad habits they need to work it out. I used to play thousands of video games before art college, however I made myself stop playing video games after the first year of art college started. Now I still hadn't been playing video games for five years and still ongoing to this year. Because I keep myself busy on doing something else instead. I have no regrets on not playing video games anymore. I do missed them sometimes, however I'm happier creating something, watching some films, read comics, etc. It does take practice trying to make art at any times and being prepared for it. I need do need to work more on producing and get myself to make more as possible. Art is tough, college is tough, life is tough. everything is tough. You need to toughen yourself up to stay tough against the life.