#i'm trying to get out of my art block

[onyxstone14]

where our blue is.

#I'm trying to get out of my art block so im mindlessly drawing them again #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk fanart #jujutsu kaisen fanart #satosugu #jjk spoilers #gojo satoru #satoru gojo #suguru geto #geto suguru #sugusato #stsg

[goodtimeswithgrian]

już nie uciekam masz mnie na dłoni / nie mam kontroli, jakbym był na dnie

#lyrics from bronia by ochman and jerry heil. check it out bc i had the song looped while drawing whatever this is #goodtimeswithscar #grian #scarian #hermitshipping #brush test + some coloring experiments bc i'm trying to get out of art block auugh #my art

[nowheregoat]

Demon/eldritch König and Badger doodles + @breadthe fighting Demon König with an addition of Horangi

#trying to get out of art block #so I'm drawing these blockheads #my art #call of duty #call of duty oc #call of duty konig #cod oc #cod könig #Badger looked at König once and decided to make him worse

[myrkkymato]

Dirty Little Animals

That song is so going to be my most listened song this year. It fits both of them so well.

Art nerd alert underneath:

If you like drawing with (waterproof) ink, you can try watering small amounts down. Dried layers don't smudge like aquarelles do but liquid ink behaves like aquarelles on wet surfaces.

#Arcane #arcane ran #arcane sevika #arcane fanart #illustration #indian ink #art techniques #Art nerd stuff #myrkkymato art #Maybe I'll keep throwing different techniques at you like dodgeball #So you never know what my art obsessed ass is going to do next #I tried to aim for some coherent style or technique but i give up #It's still going to be fan art tho #Painting this was SO much fun and I feel like I'm back on my comfort zone after trying to get a hold of markers and (especially) colors #It's been years since I last used this technique and it was before i got burnt out and had a huge art block #i'm so happy and excited i can enjoy art again #I write too much for someone who has never been good with grammar sorry

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all, I am blanking on a word so hard I am even blanking on the words to describe that word What's the term for like...groups of colors? color palettes but more specific? I'm looking for the generic term, but the specific words that are versions of that generic I can think of are things like earth tones, jewel tones, pastels, and maybe brights/neons I'm trying to figure out other categories like those but I cannot figure out what the word is to search

#crowd sourcing brain function because mine is not working #what is that called????? there has to be a like overarching category name for those #normally when I forget a word I can work around it in a way that makes it easier to come up with the word #when I was little I read a book that mentioned every piece of data in your mind has a pathway to get to it #and if you only have one connection to that data point when the path breaks you lose it #but if you have multiple paths to get there you can lose one path and still be able to find the data #(like I could remember shark facts by thinking about carnivores or weird teeth or shark jaws or non-human sensory perceptions) #idk if that is true??? but it was like. formative to me as a small child #so I deliberately made multiple associations to anything I learned from that point on #to the point where it kind of became second nature #which is good for me now that my brain is uhhhh not operating full speed #because I can work around a mental block (usually) and come up with the word #but I cannot remember this one!!! and it's frustrating! I'm just spinning through loose associations trying to find one that connects #my brain is a mush of half remembered art terms at the moment and I am getting no closer to figuring it out lol

[vaciiosol]

Art of my strahd npc Velasco as he is now and when he was a young adult

#ttrpg art #dnd #doodles #my ocs #I've been trying. SO HARD to get out of my art block to work on commissions and I was finally able to block a rough pose today lol #I'm making progress

[op3ra]

hello, old friend

#'iiiim not ur friend.' #if you get the specific caption reference i'm not sorry. suffer like i do #cw eyestrain #tw eyestrain #tw: eyestrain #cw: eyestrain #cw blood #cw violence #eyestrain #if i missed any lmk #this must be the first time I've colored red caboose in full #this pose was really hard but really fun #although tbh in the end i don't love the outcome but i'm not willing to put more time into it either #slowly trying to break out of my 2.5 month art block -_- #the red caboose #rusty the steam engine #stex #starlight express #art or whatever

[thebatcreature]

Redrew my old Nightwing art!

#me trying to snap out of art block by proving to myself that I'm getting better #batfam #nightwing #dick grayson #my art

[plulp]

HIIII everybody good morning ❤️ i now have 50 followers (more than 50 now) and i hope that i don't get any more or else i'll have to block everyone (just kidding. i wouldn't do that.)

but now that we're all here if you have a dol pc you want me to draw PLEASE send it to me through asks i'll try to draw as many as i physically can because i think it's funny and i'm going to regret this later

just send in:

- your pc (IMAGE!!!)

- info about them maybe? (i want to know everyone in detail. i love you all. let's all get married)

- and you can ask for a dol character too if you want (my designs because i literally do not know anyone else's i'm sorry i don't look at fan art often anymore but if you have a specific design i can do that too)

and that's it!!

thank you all so much for being so kind to me and i appreciate it a lot :) everything means a lot to me and i'm glad you all like my art

if you don't want to see these asks please block the tag #spulpal <- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#germaphone #spulpal #it's special and pulp together :) #i've never done this before because all my other blogs are so impersonal #like as in i don't share my thoughts at all because i'm majorly nervous all the time #even if they're like way bigger than this one #thankfully i'm inactive on them because it is STIFLING i can tell you that much #i can't bring myself to run art accounts anymore i'm just too tired to draw full pieces #but when it's drawing for other people i can do anything. i love drawing for other people more than my life #but thank you all so much for being so nice to me :) i really get nervous about my art #i think this is the first time i've drawn in a few months? #my art block hits hards very frequently so i just try to crank out as much as i can in as little time possible #but i think i'm okay right now #i haven't drawn so much in such a short time in like 2 years #well it's whatever #after this either 1 i'll never do it again or 2 i'll do it again and i'll regret it #if you send in an oc i hope i don't disappoint 😰😰😰

[somelazyassartist]

#. having some struggles with art lately #like I'm struggling with Making The Art y'know?? #it's not art block because i HAVE the ideas and the desire to draw but i just. can't #i don't know if it's stress or my bones shifting weird or just being tired or what but Something is keeping me from drawing what i want #when i do draw something it doesn't turn out looking good and other times i can't force myself to draw at all #which really sucks because I'm on a time limit for a lot of art! #I've been trying to work on Artfight for ages‚ a zine I've been waiting MONTHS for applications to open‚ making stickers for my DnD group! #all of those have very specific time limits and i just! can't! get! myself! to! draw!!!!!! #i might delete this later i just needed. some way to vent it out #this didn't turn out how i wanted either but that's sorta the point lol #idk. just feeling really stressed out about it i guess #vent #vent art #three eyed cats in my living room

[thedreadvampy]

not to be a dick but if you've been through actual university level art school and you still think that it's unreasonable bullying to be asked to push yourself or experiment with different art styles or to have aspects of your artwork criticised by people you asked for an opinion. what was the point of art school for you exactly?

when people say shit like 'my art school tutors told me my art was bad bc it was too anime and cartoonish ☹️' that may be true but I'm not gonna lie what I suspect happen is they told you 'you should work on developing a solid foundation for any art style you choose by pushing yourself to try more representational art Anne getting comfortable with ways of seeing and understanding images' and what you heard is 'NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO DRAW CARTOONS EVER AND YOUR WORK IS WORTHLESS'

and furthermore I suspect that you were really annoying in crits and took any even slightly negative comment or suggestion as a personal attack even though literally the point of art school is to learn to take and grow from constructive advice from your peers.

shout out to the girl on my undergrad who burst into tears literally every crit for three years even though about the nastiest thing anyone said to her was 'it might look cleaner if you rubbed out any of your pencil lines after inking and also used a clean rubber while sketching.' and guess whose art didn't improve at all over three years and whose technique actively got sloppier while other people were moving forward in leaps and bounds? yeah.

there were people who started uni as the best in the class and ended as some of the worst bc they just weren't prepared to listen to criticism or change how they did anything. and there were people who started out very mediocre and went on to produce incredible professional work to a high standard bc they listened and were open to change. and that's got nothing to do with who was more painterly and who was more cartoony or whatever it's just. when you ask advice and get something you don't want to hear do you chew on it and try it out or do you dig your heels in and do more of the same?

and like I'm not saying there's anything wrong with sticking to your guns and doing art the way you want to do art and the way that brings you joy. I'm just saying if you don't want feedback, teaching or advice on how to improve I'm really not sure what the benefit of art school is that you couldn't get several thousand pounds cheaper by staying home and drawing there.

(and I'm also saying if you come out of art school like BOOHOO NOBODY LIKES MY STYLE AND MY ART IS WORTHLESS you might. need to pull yourself together and say either I'm committed to this style regardless of whether people like it and I'm going to keep building on this style and make it amazing, or I want to make art that's more like the work people like and I value, what could I change to get more where I want to go? but if you lie down and say waaaaaah it's so unfair that my art is bad and everyone else is just more talented than me then bullshit. by the time you've graduated art school talent is not the deciding factor in the quality of your work. it's a question of your willingness and capacity to put the work in, take criticism, understand what you want to achieve, and slog through trying and failing to get a certain effect until it improves. professional level art is not an innate talent it's a trained skill, and some people might start further along the path than others bc of their talent, eye or training, but the distance between someone who's talented but unpractised and someone who's less talented but puts a lot of thought and work in closes extremely rapidly. it can be disheartening but if you want to do this professionally rather than for yourself you gotta feel your frustration, have a good scream and cry about it, then get back in to figuring out what you need to build on. bc we're all guilty of sometimes going HOWEVER HARD I WORK I'LL NEVER BE AS GOOD AS MY PEERS but no offence if you just lie down and give up where does that get you? if you just start going 'actually you should all feel bad for not liking my work more' instead of making your work more appealing or finding the right audience for it, that's on you not on anyone else. what was the point of art school????)

#needless bitching time #i just. i don't understand why you'd pay thousands of pounds a year to get constructive feedback #and then spend the year treating any feedback as a personal attack #save your money my guy of you want to do it on your own and you don't think other people have anything to tell you #then don't pay 6 grand a year to not listen to other people's advice #saw three consecutive art posts on here of ppl being like MY TUTORS TOLD ME NOT TO DO ANIME ART BC THEY JUST DON'T GET ME #WHY ARE ALL MY PEERS DOING BETTER THAN ME DESPITE US ALL GRADUATING AT THE SAME TIME #friends it's not bc you do anime art it's bc they tried new things and learnt new skills and you dug your heels in bc anime is What You Do #but like. successful cartoonists and anime artists are ppl who've at least had a crack at life drawing and realism #to know what they're stylising and how #I'm sure there's some teachers going NO ANIME EVER but I'm p sure most of your tutors were actually saying #don't just do anime bc it's what you know how to do. try other styles bc even if you're bad at them you'll learn something #it's not just anime like. ppl who come in only doing photorealism are pushed to stylise more. #you should be pushed out of your comfort zone. different styles. different media. that's not where you're being asked to END UP. #it's a LEARNING PROCESS #like a lot of my direct tutelage was like. pushing me to do looser more gestural blockier art #use an a6 piece of paper and a fat marker pen for life drawing #or no lines only blocks of shadow #or use a 3 colour palette with no midtones #or draw 30 thumbnails in a minute #and the art i made like that SUUUUUUUUUCKED. and it's meant to. it's not meant to be how you work from now on. #it's meant to help you identify what you're missing and where your blind spots are #and what you can incorporate into your work moving forward #red said

[gallonwghost]

My two favs interacting lmao

#Pokémon #pokémon goh #goh #pokemon gou #Gou #kusuo saiki #saiki #saiki fanart #Twitter meme #i think #idk where the original image came from #style practice #Crossover #fanart #art #artists on tumblr #my art #trying to get out of art block #I'm failing

[winepresswrath]

Also while I was sick I painted an octopus. he is jiang themed for my convenience.

#my girlfriend got me art supplies for Christmas and I really need to figure out how to use them #I have oil paints now! ive never used oil paints in my life #and I fear them #I have like three different kinds of water colours and ive only ever used the little cakes people give you when you're a kid #the thing about me and painting is that I'm so bad at it I can't tell how bad I am #I get writer's block because my taste exceeds my abilities by a considerable margin #not so the visual arts #how does light work? what shading? #i made an octopus!!! he has freckles #highly encourage all adults to try things they're miserably bad at #the delight is stored in the incompetence

[fitzselfships]

Who would've thought that being exposed to one of your triggers (that you only recently found out is a trigger) on a daily basis would be bad for your mental health. Save me f/os </3

#negative #mutual who I'm terrified of cutting off is posting about nothing but h/azbin h/otel #< the mutual isn't anyone here btw #but. I'm terrified of bringing this up with her #since she like. really seems tk not be okay with people who hate v/ivziepop or her work :( #I can't even go on twitter anymore since I keep getting hazbinhotel jumpscared #it's literally my entire tl right now even though I have everything related to it muted #I have had tk block so many peo0le today just to try to rpevent it from popping up #I feel so stupid that some show has become a trigger for me #just. finding out about that sa scene has made it so every time I see anything hazbin hotel related #I start getting intense flashbacks to my csa trauma :( #honestly at this point I think viziepop herself is a trigger for me #seeing her art brings back these memories too #you can call me stupid or sensitive or whatever but i literallt have no control ocer this #I didn't want this to happen. I didn't want some stupid cartoon to become a massive trigger for me #but it happened anyway #sorry for rambling like this lol #this has just been on my mind forever now #it's been almost 2 months now and I'm just. exhausted #csa mention #< in the tags

[honnojis]

'Art isn’t about talent' lol said the talented artist that without artistic talent will have no commissions and be out of a job.. you're not one to talk

oh brother. that comment was an aside from the whole AI issue but apparently that wasn't clear, so let me amend that.

My point was that calling people who can't draw well "talentless hacks" is just plain fucking rude!!!! My own skills have literally fuck all to do with that. Some people may not be as skilled, but they create art for fun as a way of creative self expression. Some people are still LEARNING. Be nice to others, god damn

#zumi answers #Anonymous #i'm just gonna block you if you're gonna try to make an argument out of this in my inbox #also i'm a firm believer in skill. not talent #it took me over a decade to get to this point and i didn't do that by pulling art out of my ass out of nowhere #i draw nearly every single fucking day

[rateatinginsulation]

Remembered this oc existed recently

#my art #digital art #art #oc art #oc #original character #Don't super like how this turned out but I'm trying to get rid of art block