#no thumbnail cause i dont wanna draw one rn

[waterfrontcomplex]

snuffy meme (fig)

ummm i havent animated this much in like 4 years... might get back into animation memes ngl

the quality was butchered cause i used a small canvas whoopsies just uhhh dont use fullscreen

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[meme-loving-stuck]

if youre a creator and youre strugglin rn i have one tip and that is i am BEGGING you to just make something BAD

if youre a vocalist and you don't want to edit or retouch that big project. just. go record something on your phone mic. do you have a new character? work on their accent, their cadence. a shitpost youve been meaning to record? do it! doesnt matter if you pause or have to cut a lot just record SOMETHING and come back to it when youre feeling better even if not big-project-y

if youre a dry media artist go get some goddamn printer paper and a goddamn mechanical pencil and just DRAW SOMETHING dont even use reference dont even plan it. cut the paper smaller of you need to or put down a grey background so its less intimidating and dont just sketch fucking draw, do some hard lines and some details and whatever. just DRAW does it look like a five year old did it? GOOD cause you still DID it and its done. do another one! shit, do three of you have the energy.

if youre a painter?? paint on something!! you dont have to bust out the fancy paper and brushes just paint on ANYTHING. even not-meant-for-paint paper! the back of a notebook! tape down a postcard and put a new design on it! a cd! whatever the instagram artists are painting on do it! dont worry about being messy dont worry about the composition too much just PAINT something you have in your head. use the wrong color palette. hell do a FINGER-PAINTING its fun as hell. make it BAD. make it upsetting to look at! just fill a space. look at you go, you crazy artist.

but ross, you might be saying, what about me, the digital artist? cant be assed to use a huge application and file space? open up ms paint YEAH YOU HEARD ME MS PAINT. now paint something with those shitty little tools. dont worry about dithering or pixel textures or anything just get an idea on CANVAS it might seem irritating to not have your fancy brush engines and layers but it will be freeing later. and dont just do a bust or a pixel sketch give it DEPTH, give it DIMENSION with those shitty pixels. hell try some realism! do a fucking bob ross painting in MS paint that was a huge trend a while back. who cares if it looks bad! youre creating. and now you may or may not have a good thumbnail or underpainting to work off of when you wanna fire up PS or procreate or whatever bougie software everyones using lmao

just keep creating. make things that you dont post, that you arent proud of, that you don't share or get opinions on. i have THOUSANDS of files and HUNDREDS of physical pages of my bad work that never sees the light of day. you wont always wanna go back to it! but just create it. its okay to take a break at a time like this, but dont stop for too long. create something bad