#inktober week 4

[greyslime]

[lacymayart]

Inktober 2023 - Week 4-5

[gingerrhd]

Inktober 2024 day 7

"call it off corridoors"

[alexapillustration]

🔪 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳 2024- 𝘋𝘢𝘺 4: 𝘖𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘴/𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 🔪

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This is literally just a joke where its Wind Waker but Among Us au, playing mostly on the suspicious part of the prompt 😂 Very proud of the idea tbh!

[chlorophyll-tints]

inktober week 1!! but it’s only luffy :3

[neonisradioactive]

Macaque thought cutting into Wukong would bring him satisfaction. But with the way Wukong is looking at that peach’s guts and pit…

Something told him Wukong wasn’t seeing clearly enough.

[ellaisthebest]

Inktober day 4: Dodge! Inktober day 5: Map

[memeticsdivision]

the voices (having to work on commissions but wanting to draw my blorbos oh so badly)

[tenpoints4andy]

I should probably mention how I'm going about inktober

I'm trying to use a different brush/pen/pencil/marker each day. There are 31 days but only a handful of brushes that I use consistently, so this ought to be an adventure!

[greyslime]

[lacymayart]

Inktober 2023 - Week 4

[gingerrhd]

Inktober 2024 day 6

Not so much rare pair but definitely falling into rare media to see these days

[pitotube]

maybe mean post but i have been seeing such a direct correlation between artists who throw themselves into monthly challenges and frustrated posts about burnout.. ppl are like 'im going to draw a detailed illustration every single day this month" in week one and week three has them apologising for falling behind and taking a break from social media etc.. we literally need to kill the inktober industry and all its spinoffs

edit: this is just to say that i feel people have missed my point because i didn't expect this to get notes. to clarify: you ppl aren't professional artists. i'm not a professional artist. the hobbyist and professional spaces have been enfolded into one another as a result of social media and the pressure this puts on hobbyists to pump out pro volumes of work has turned into a burnout machine. stop holding yourselves to ridiculous standards. if you're a hobbyist, and you very likely are if you're reading this, there's nothing in the world so urgent and important on social media that it needs you churning out art you don't enjoy for. ok. forcing yourself to be creative will murder any motivation you had to finish a piece or a so-called challenge. just stop. put the pen down, if it's not your job and it's not fun why the hell put yourself through that? draw an oc standing in 3/4 view on a void white background instead, i give you permission to do that and be satisfied.

[trilobitepunch]

It's week...4! Yes. Inktober week 4. >_> <_<;;

Yeah, continuing on the "Fang" train...

Day 20: Scratch

Twins need a time out...

Day 21: Melt

Day 22: Inside

Day 23: Bone

Day 24: Buried

:')

Day 25: Forsaken Wisp

Day 26: Mirror

AAAAH one more week...!!

[gil-estel]

star wars rebels appreciation week: day 2 — favorite episode(s)/arc(s) // inktober day 4 — "exotic"

[imrisah]

You know how people say "draw every day, train your body to miss it".

Used to be a big believer of that and felt like shit because I was completely unable to stick to it for more than a few days in a row (ADD orz). It ate away at my confidence and made me feel like I was a fraud.

Now that I've gone through a massive burnout lasting about 4 years, and as a professional artist, I can tell you that the only way to get out of it for me was to unlearn that shit.

So here's my honest, hard-earned take:

(disclaimer: this applies to people that can afford to take breaks from doing art. If you're a professional artist or going to art school and you're burnt out from that, I feel for you and I don't have good advice, I'm sorry. I hope it gets better soon ❤️)

If you have the personality to stick to it, if you get joy from the consistency, if you FEEL GOOD doing it, then it's the right approach for you. Have at it, go nuts.

Although if you feel like shit at the idea of sticking to something like Inktober, or doing anything for more than 2 days in a row makes you start questioning if it's even worth it

Listen to me.

Stop doing it.

It's ok to stop doing it.

Instead find a subject that you're passionate about ( a fandom, a medium, a type of subject) and every time you feel possessed by that sweet sweet art itch, just do it as much as you possibly can. Cram as much art as you want into a short amount of time and then MOVE ON.

Accept that your brain is satisfied and move on.

If you love it will come back, I promise you.

Now that I feel better and I know how to listen to myself to check what I feel like doing, I have these incredible art sprees that can last any amount of days/weeks/months. It's so much fucking fun guys.

And here's the kicker:

If I let it stew and come up to a boil until I know I will have fun doing it, I find out a lot of the times that sitting on it and just thinking about it made me learn anyway.

Coming back to a medium after months of not having touched it? All the useless info is gone, only the important stuff stuck in my brain. Which means it's a lot less involved to get started and just do things. Less expectations, more fun.

You might not learn at the same pace as someone that does it every day, but you need to be kind to yourself and learn what you can do without breaking.