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shirozora-draws · 1 year

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It's WHAT day today!? Not me already feeling weird about working on two sketches to post the same weekend as that sketch I posted for the first time in months only to find out that Today is the Two Year Anniversary of The Day Dinluke Took Over My Brain.

(It's not 12AM yet, this still counts as a 12/18 post)

Anyway.

Been dying to do some nice proper "the staircase fic is firmly on my mind" sketches. This version of Luke actually shows up later in the fic and the shape/cut/color of his robes are also influenced by Padme's wardrobe. Din's look has appeared on this blog before and is super duper influenced by what we saw of Aq Vetina's residents in the flashback scenes. The, uh, holocron plays a smaller part than it looks but I bought a holocron at Disneyland and wanted to have fun with my new reference.

Have I posted about the staircase fic on the art blog? It is live and currently posting as Gravity Well on AO3.

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searchingforakeythatdoesntexist · 3 months

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DAY 15- «On Thin Ice» Good Omens AU - Triptych Tribute, last part.

To @blairamok. Thanks for everything...!

Please, listen to this?

"Our love is..."

I, I can't get these memories out of my mind And some kind of madness has started to evolve And I, I tried so hard to let you go But some kind of madness is swallowing me whole

I have finally seen the light And I have finally realized What you mean...

And now, I need to know, is this real love Or is it just madness keeping us afloat?

And when I look back at all the crazy fights we had It's like some kind of madness was taking control

And now I have finally seen the light And I have finally realized What you need

But now I have finally seen the end And I'm not expecting you to care, no That I have finally seen the light And I have finally realized

I need to love...!

...I need to love.

Come to me just in a dream Come on and rescue me Yes, I know, I can't be wrong

And baby, you're too headstrong Our love is

...Our Love is Madness, yeah.

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Aaaand... cut!

Hello, dear Good Omens fam ^_^

I hope you enjoyed this last fantasie of mine as much as I did. Thanks so much for reading until here. It means a lot to me. Thanks to @blairamok for blessing us with his wonderful AU! I wish you the best, dear!

I have some family duties for a few days and I'll have to travel, so I don't know if I will be able to draw/publish any Daily Challenges for a while. Maybe this is just the sign that I HAVE to go back to simple things, simple challenges, simple ideas, just like at the beginning.

That was one Hell of a journey until now. Thank you all for following me in this challenge. I am learning so much while having fun. Aaand a little bit of pressure too - because HEY ANXIOUS PERSON, that's what I am - but it's almost always a good kind of pressure.

I have drawn more in two weeks that I have ever had in 10 years. This is such a relief to be able to do it, and such a wonderful thing to share my art with you and have your feed-back. Please, please, never stop telling me what you like and what you want me to draw! l would love to read any Challenge Ideas in the tags/comments section.

As for me, I'll try to never stop drawing, ever again.

Have a wonderful day/evening, my dear GO fam.

Elenthya

Personal challenge: a simple sketch each day

Goal: forcing me to keep things simple - inking, shading, just a few sashes of colour

Improvement pursued: to get the movement, the emotion, finding how to add depth, learning how to leave things barely finished

Max time allowed: 2 hours, as usual for my Daily Challenges. or 3-4 hours because it a Tribute to - 8 hours. EIGHT. HOURS. One-shot. Yeah, I know. Time to think about my own rules. Or, no Tribute works for a while. Plus, I love their figure but Crowley face drove me mad. Ugh.

Today's theme chosen by me:

Well, the song speaks for itself, doesn't it? :-) I previously wanted to use "Glorious" because this one is my favourite above all MUSE songs - the instrumental, the voices, everything in this song transports me. But the more I was trying to use the lyrics for this artwork, the more it feels inaccurate. So... Sorry, dear "Glorious". Another time. ;-)

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md3artjournal · 2 years

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4:30 AM 2/11/2022

My Faebruary day 9 chibi Claude hasn't gotten a single Like, meanwhile, everyone has been posting 3Hopes version Claude since the 2/9/2022 Nintendo Direct trailer for 3Hopes, and getting a zillion Likes. They're all beautiful and I already know that I can't draw well, especially humans. But there are some fanart that is the most simple, clearly done quickly, and yet it's so expressive and emotive and inherently beautiful...all the things that I can't do in my drawings of humans/characters. If I came across my fanart, I wouldn't Like it either.

I guess I feel kind of down, being reminded of all that. ;_;

I mean, Even that chibi Claude I drew, at the time I drew it, *I* liked it. For me, compared to my previous drawings and relative to my current illustration skills, it was acceptable. Relative to my current skill, it was emotive, cute, and happy. But I can't see any of that now, after seeing everyone else's glorious Claude fanart. And the worst part is that everyone else threw together their gloriously emotive, detailed, objectively beautiful artwork in a day! We were all trying to draw as soon as we saw that 3Hopes trailer premier, after all. Everyone else is "scribbling" together all this beautiful art all at once, without barely putting time into it...

All my confidence that I had been building up for the past few months to finally shift from polymer clay sculptures to illustrations for artist alley and maybe even opening an online shop, is just falling between my fingers. I was finally going to outsource stickers, and maybe even get the guts to order acrylic charms of my work, and I was choosing which drawings of mine to actually turn into prints for the first time...And I just have no more confidence about it anymore. It's just gone. o_o

I can't complete with everyone else in artist alley. That's why I did polymer clay sculptures! And yeah, I was good at it, but also, the amount of time, effort, and physical pain I had to put into production, just to barely make an adequate amount of stock for each artist alley event, was just something I could barely keep up. Meanwhile, anytime illustrators need to stock up for artist alley, they just send their old files to a printer and get 20 copies of each art printed. While I'm over here like a chump, giving myself back and neck pain, working 8+ hours for a single piece that I'll have to underprice because no one is used to hand-made prices, and then the stock I spent all my time rushing to finish will turn out to not be what sells at that convention. x_x; I had to start sharpening up my drawing skills and turn to selling stickers, prints, and acrylic charms, like everyone else. But everyone else is good at drawing, and I'm NOT! I can't compete with them! What am I even doing, trying to draw? Thinking I could make stickers of _my_ drawings and people would want to buy them?

I mean, yeah, someone said my Jojo6 F.F. fanart was cute, the other day, why do people always like the stuff that I don't really care about? I liked Jojo ok, but what I really want to draw is Claude von Riegan. Why can't I draw the stuff I like well??? I spent all January sketching flowers, and even I can say that my flower sketches are objectively pretty. But I want to be drawing my favorite characters and fanart! Not flowers! ;o;! ;~;!!!

Ugh. If I recount my struggle to learn to draw humans better, I'll just be retreading old circles.

Tonight, I thought I'd sleep like a normal person, but it looks like I'm pulling an all-nighter, because I kept drawing and drawing, thinking that if I just kept going, maybe I could get better, and finally make a Claude drawing that even I could like. ....It did not end well. Everything feels so futile and hopeless. Which I should be used to by now, generally speaking.

I don't know. If I was just drawing for myself, I could be proud of myself for how far I've come. For years I yeared to draw cute and chibi characters, and I finally can now. I'd still feel ashamed at my low skill compared to other fanartists, but at least the comparisons wouldn't be public. Compared to all other fanartists...I just don't know how I can show my face in artist alley. o___o; But I can't give up trying to make a living as an artist; I have too many psychological problems to go back to any other kind of work. My only solution is to get better. But it feels like that's never going to happen, not to the point where I can compete in artist alley, and like my stuff myself.

Aaaaaaauuuuuuggggghhhhhhhhh!

In the end, it's still Faebruary, and I still had to draw a fairy for the day. So I went back to drawing one of my previous favorite characters, that I was more comfortable drawing. I didn't end up with an extraordinary fairy, but it's acceptable. I daresay, even cute. I just wish I could just as easily draw my current favorite characters, like Claude, at least as cute chibi and elicite a cute response (from myself).

They say not to look at other people's art to avoid comparisons and beating yourself up. But I like everyone else's art! They're drawing my favorite character so well! ;o;

Uuuuuuuggggggghhhhhhh...

I just needed to get that all out. Please ignore my idiocy. I WILL be too intimidated by any kind of social interaction or emotional connection, to reply to any comments.

#venting #please ignore my idiocy #artist self doubt

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