Can someone please find my motivation to draw? I seem to have misplaced it.
i seem to have left mine under my pillow
I’d get it for you but I don’t have the energy.
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It might be hiding where my motivation to knit was. Check under the couch cushions.
We might need to form a lost motivation support group.
Can someone please find my motivation to draw? I seem to have misplaced it.
Ah. Someone pointed out that the position of Harley’s hammer in the drawing I posted last night is very, um, suggestive. Totally unintentional. Apparently I’m pervy even when I’m not trying to be.
Oh man, your style is so perfect for the Saga characters.
Aw! Thank you! 😀
I see a lot of positivity posts about 12-year-olds just learning to draw. Posts cautioning us to be mindful of 11-year-olds with no grasp of anatomy and 13-year-olds whose characters are all the same person with different hair and clothes, and I love those posts. Those are great posts. Keep those posts coming, tumblr.
But can I ask, what about the 25-year-old who just bought their first ever sketchbook? What about the 32-year-old who’s been drawing for a month and has just about got the hang of a human-looking face? What about the 67-year-old who finally has time to sit down and learn how to paint like they’ve always wanted?
Not everyone starts drawing as a child. Not everyone learned as a preteen. Some people start in college. Some people start when their career is going well and they feel like it’s time for a new hobby. Some people start after they’ve retired.
Not all beginner artists are kids, and I just think the adults ones deserve some encouragement, too.
I think one of the kindest things you can do for yourself as an artist is to accept that you will make bad drawings sometimes and just…stop caring about it. It’s not like that bad sketch you drew was your one and only chance to ever draw the thing. It’s so much easier emotionally to just say “lol what is that?” delete it and start over than it is to spend the next six hours crying about it. Once you stop treating every single thing you draw as something precious and learn to just throw stuff away it takes so much stress away. One bad drawing doesn’t make you a bad artist, or a fraud. Even the best pro artists are gonna have moments where they draw things wrong. You’re going to make bad drawings so just go out there and make them so you can move on with your life. Chances are your second attempt will be better.
my hobbies include thinking of stories to write and then not writing them
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