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smol-tired-binch-blog · 3 months ago

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Gotta vent rq but like GOD I want to draw I love doodling I love my silly little sketches I miss drawing the yakoozies and magical girls but like I need a laptop replacement which i WILL be getting but it won't be for weeks. So i have a sketchbook. That should be nice right? I mean i only started digital art in like 2020, maybe late 2019, should be fine?

NO, i was so HYPE for my first ever Surface BECAUSE i Am Not Good With Pen And Paper! And i say that as someone who has been drawing since she was like 4, yknow? I remember drawing in my sketchbooks, I remember my Creepypasta OCs from when i was 14. I remember thinking how one day I'd be REALLY good at drawing, noticing my progress and looking forward to more. Turns out though, i can get proportions right in the first go. And for some reason i never have a decent eraser, so trying again and again is just frustrating and ruins the paper or still leaves those ugly indents and smudges.

Like on a computer, you can SELECT specific parts of the drawing and CHANGE THE SIZE!! you can use LAYERS!!! You can sketch and then linework til your hearts content, and yeah it fucks me off, but it's somehow reassuring thay i can just delete the layer, delete the whole thing and start again simple as. I can zoom in, i can press the Undo button. I can draw until it looks nice. Cant do that with paper.

"Oh but sketchbooks are MEANT to be for your ugly stuff" I DONT CARE. I DONT WANT UGLY STUFF. I WANT TO BE ABLE TO DRAW MY OCS AND MY FAVE CHARACTERS AT LEAST SOMEWHAT COMPETENTLY FROM THE GET GO. Like jesus you'd think I'd know what koi boi and his skinny twink boyfriend look like by now but NOPE. it frustrates me PERSONALLY because i like a silly little sketch, i can have it be a lil rough, a lil simple. But it needs to be Recognisble and Nice Enough. Fuck this.

#smol has a quick vent #The artist's curse is NEEDING to draw and then having times where you Can't #Sometimes it's lack of skill/ability. Sometimes it's art block. Sometimes it's not having access to how you want it #and yknow whats worse? My best mate has offered to lend me his iPad and i did try #But every time i use that thing i get so upset its fucking disgusting to use like how the FUCK does ProCreate work #Do not answer that he has shown me i just hate it. What do you mean i have to click more than once or twice to get what i want #why are all of these pens vile. Why do i keep activating the eraser tool just by holding the pen. Where the fuck are the layers.#Where's the opacity button. Where's the lasso. It's awful it's horrible i hate it #Last time i used it i was having to try very hard to not kermit sudoku with the pen like jesus WEPT get a GRIP #anyway uhhhh hopefully I'll be back to my usual art complaints next month yippeee!!!

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