#theres nothing wrong with shortcuts u kno. make ur life easier

[red-dyed-sarumane]

When I draw I make my best stuff when I throughly plan everything and take days to weeks to finish. Which is still exhausting so I wonder how do you keep yourself sane when doing art? I find myself bouncing around sketches and adjusting things here and there and whenever I try to focus on one drawing for too long I get impatient and start taking shortcuts. ;u;

im guilty of taking shortcuts too i like to speedrun art.

im not sure im the best person to ask about this i usually do my art in as few sittings as possible bc if i stray from it for something else chances are its not getting finished. what keeps me going is aside from maybe 2 things (i dont close lines so paint buckets hate me i have to fill in all my colors by hand & adding the first lines to hair) i find the whole process a lot of fun so it doesnt feel like a chore to do & most of the time i lose track of time doing it. i based my art style around what i thought looks good thats also fun to do if i dont have fun doing it i either will find a different way or just. wont. at all. also helps to be passionate about the subject material but i get that has a lot of variance.

sometimes tho i dont feel like doing everything all at once so ill just do whatever part i feel like. get an idea down one day. come back to fix it up. leave it until i really want to color. keep that on hold until i dont want to sketch i just want to render something. this is why i have like 13 wips all at the same point but shhh its fine.

if u really feel like u get stuck on a part for too long its okay to tell urself it doesnt have to be perfect, yeah u think if u just tweak it *this* way it'll be better, but sometimes perfectionism isnt right & u just gotta keep it in mind for next time u do something similar. i guess it depends on preference tho too i think im probably a quantity over quality person bc i have a lot of ideas i want to show rather than getting just one perfect. the cool part of art is that it can always be better & that means u get to decide when ur done just by if ur tired of it or not. its all up to u.