12-15-2025, 08:32 AM
Right then! It's been a little while since I've posted on here, I've been spending my time letting my brain cook in some good old fashioned artist's anguish, and I think it's just about done. It's been tough, a lot of my work and study just feels so hopeless, and my sense of direction has just been shitty in general, but I'm glad to say that I'm starting to pick up the pace and enjoy what I do again :).
Reminding myself why I'm doing this has helped a lot. I find that I was holding myself directly up to the standards of artist far better than me, and it was destroying my self esteem, and I have found a better route to be taking inspiration from all the artists I love, as much as I can, and just making stuff that I like after drawing from all the amazing works. I am no longer trying to copy one artist to try and be good.
I've also started spending much longer rendering - really figuring out how light hits form and bounces around and creates the illusion of 3 dimensionality. That, combined with good shapes, is really what I love doing, and seeing in the work of others. That being said, here are some sketches and paintings from recent times. Also drawing and painting the female form/face is very satisfying atm - dunno why, maybe its because of the more graceful rhythms and forms generally found there!
Reminding myself why I'm doing this has helped a lot. I find that I was holding myself directly up to the standards of artist far better than me, and it was destroying my self esteem, and I have found a better route to be taking inspiration from all the artists I love, as much as I can, and just making stuff that I like after drawing from all the amazing works. I am no longer trying to copy one artist to try and be good.
I've also started spending much longer rendering - really figuring out how light hits form and bounces around and creates the illusion of 3 dimensionality. That, combined with good shapes, is really what I love doing, and seeing in the work of others. That being said, here are some sketches and paintings from recent times. Also drawing and painting the female form/face is very satisfying atm - dunno why, maybe its because of the more graceful rhythms and forms generally found there!