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I haven't drawn anything in nearly 20 years and decided to buy a wacom and challenge myself to drawing every day for 30 days, i'm on day 16. (media.piefed.social)
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I haven't drawn anything in nearly 20 years and decided to buy a wacom and challenge myself to drawing every day for 30 days, i'm on day 16.
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[–] [S] 28 points 1 year ago (9 children)

took a couple days to adjust to the wacom and to "remember my style" from like 20 years ago.

the problem I had initially was I was watching too many tutorials and drawing how THEY drew and it didn't feel right.. too many shapes and "a body is this many heads tall divide it this way and this way" and I thought "but what if I don't want to?

Then I found some youtube shorts from a Japanese artist that helped me "get my groove" back so to speak and I found my style again.

I'm using Krita and I love it. the brushes are great, I'm absolutely addicted to inking. I decided to keep some of the blue pencil lines because I really think it looks cool with the ink on top.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm in a similar situation, I bought the tablet years ago, supplies, sketchbooks, nice pens, etc. I watch art related content and provide critique and such to my friends, but as soon as it comes down to putting pen to paper it's like all the motivation and inspiration leaves me. Honestly at a loss, it's been about 15 years for me, I'd still like to call myself an artist, but I do anything but draw.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    In my experience, that's because you're critiquing others and yourself too much. It's not fun if all you see is the shitty stuff or what you need to "improve." Who cares if you make good or bad art? There are plenty of perfect drawings out there that no one has ever seen. It really doesn't matter. In a related note, if you went to art school, it might be the art school hangover from juries. I have a vendor that still worries about what his college teachers/peers might say, and I think he's in his 50s or 60s.

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