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.

Pinterest. Never used the site before as I figured it was just some shopping type site but It's a fantastic place to find unique poses and references. I'll go on there and search for like "action poses" or "dynamic poses" and look at images and think "this pose would be great for this character" or "I'd really like to try drawing something from this perspective"

Like if I find an image with some big guy I'd think "This dude would look awesome as a space marine" or an image of someone striking a really intense action pose and I'd say "Spider-Man would totally do this"

So right now references are really inspiring me.

I wanted to be creative again and I missed it. I mean I'm going to be 42 next week and I realized I hadn't drawn or painted anything in like 20 years. Life just got busy and took that away from me. I used to love drawing, I used to love making webcomics or little zines for friends and what have you. I just wanted a hobby again that didn't involve gaming or anything like that.

So I just started trying again and didn't like what I was making. I thought "I swore I was better than this" so I decided to pick up a cheap Wacom One (the small basic one) and challenge myself to draw every day for 30 days and see if I could get that passion back.

the first week was rough and I wasn't happy with it. It wasn't until like day 6 or 7 that something turned back on in my brain. Kinda like that skill/passion for creating was always there, had long been turned off, and took a week to reboot. It just clicked and it was a sort of "oh yeah I remember how to do this!" moment.

Now it's like I draw something, get to the point I'm happy with it, then like 15min later I want to draw something else. Sort of like an addiction.

I've also noticed that ideas are coming easier to me now and not just for art. but say like Ideas for apps or websites or what have you (I'm a developer in my day job) I just feel creative again overall. and frankly it also makes me feel young again.