#how to beat art block

[hinamie]

oversaturate

[heartorbit]

happy halloween! 🎃🐈‍⬛👻🐇

[kekisu]

refined version of an old sketch

[sarcasticmothdraws]

a masterpiece

[crabsnpersimmons]

Do you sketch in pencil or do you just go straight to pen?

thanks for the question! it depends on what i'm drawing!

if i'm just doodling without any plans, i may go straight in with a pen. it's a habit i developed from my school days because i didn't like the feeling of pencil on paper. these are examples of when i just went straight in with pen:

the first two i drew with felt tip pen and ballpoint pen respectively and left the sketch as the lineart. the third one, i sketched with a ballpoint pen, liked it, and decided to clean it up with white out and add cleaner lineart on top.

now, if i know i'm going to draw something complicated or something i know want to clean up later, i'll usually start with a coloured pencil sketch and then... decide if it's a lines first day or colours first day. you'll usually notice some stray sketch lines because i honestly don't care to clean them all up perfectly. Some examples here:

usually, i do lines first because that's what i'm used to. also because getting the lines done gets me closer to a finished drawing (a bad habit of mine is stopping once the lines are done). but recently, i've been being too precious about doing lines, so i decided to switch things up and colour first, which has been helping me to not overthink my lines too much.

[arolegos]

dump :p

are people still into black clover...

[ypipie]

assorted silly compilation

[socially-awkward-skeleton]

Captain John Price

[kisaraslover]

this is the dumbest au ive ever made. it deserves its dumb ass name: E-AU. theyre just a hot ass couple ill put them in situations to my hearts content

[roseywastaken]

30 minute sketch of a cutie pie 💗

(reference under the cut!)

Yay :D

[thelooniemoonie]

Champion Cynthia

[meru90]

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[kyurochurro]

HATE THE A.M. HATE THE P.M. 💥🕷️ 🎸

[skillzissuez]

This is me trying to learn how to draw again

[sincerely-nines]

art block/general burn out has got me acting silly wacky so i aggie it out and skater'd tango i think it tracks

[serandipity]

Schedule update: Starting today, I will only be writing at work. I want to use my time after work to invest more in doing art / reading / playing video games / hanging out with Benji. My mornings before work are taken up by cleaning / errands. This means I might be a little slow to get to things, but you're always free to poke me in the dms. I have an internal system I use on what replies need to be written in a day, however I can never really guarantee work will be slow enough for me TOO write. Things might be a bit slower for the next couple of weeks as a bunch of stuff happens, but you can always bonk me on the head and ask me for something.

On the plus side: if I get my brain to work more art for the blog! :D Thanks for your patience. I do have those doodle requests I asked for awhile ago and want to finish. Thanks for your patience on that. :)