Art Block - Blog Posts
ahhh yess this really gives me art block T-T
pencil!sans belongs to meh
Fairytales TOG Week Day 6
Red Riding Hood
After staring at nothingness, scrolling images of over the garden wall posters..
Yes, that’s Miseng. But my hand don’t want to draw her faceʕ ಡ ﹏ ಡ ʔ
that one image of reimu pushing yukari in a wheelchair except it’s kyubey and beatrice (not meant to offend or mock or demean any people who use wheelchairs)
"so what's your art style??"
good question. where is it.
shitpost
This is artblock Steevy, say hi
He sucks
also he looks like Wander ig
they're friends tee-hee
anyways, that was my shitpost
of my new oc, Art-block Steevy
will you ever see him again? who knows, idk
I need drawing ideas, put some in my inbox pleeeeassseee
Art Requests!
Hey friends!! I’m taking some art requests! Just drop them in my ask box! No guarantee I’ll get to them all but I’ll try!
art block got *worse* somehow so here’s some cat (?) doodles
normal content will resume after I re-learn how to draw people
Requests open!
Low quality doodles and sketches for warmups because art block
Might actually make smth out of the chiaki sketch, it turned out better than expected
Transcription:
Hatless bc I can’t draw hats
Celeste: go to horny jail (bonk) Hifumi: oh no
Ibuki @ barber shop: is this a personal attack?
“Snip snip, you have no drip” - Genocide Jack
Software used is CamScanner and Medibang Paint Pro, both on mobile.
Why did artt block decide to hit on ATSUSHIS BIRTHDAY.
I'm so mad. HE'S LIKE MY FAVORITE I NEED TO CELEBRATE. Day ruined.
Here is a STUPID drawing of STUPID beast Atsushi on STUPID roblox!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡🎉 HAPPY BIRTBDAH ATSUSHI I HATE YOU
Someone pleak respond with a character and I will sketch (or draw or paint) them - i can’t make decisions on what to draw recently so please decide for me (pick characters from the media listed)
House Md
The Magnus archives
BBC Merlin
HELP ME ART PLEASEEE
I have many ideas for my aus that I want to draw/ animate, and I also want to draw a tadc self insert, but
I'm unmotivated and have art block
Gah I’m in a funk I can’t draw anything!!! Someone give me a prompt!!!!!!
@saspas-corner Here’s for 6 months of random friendship because of one fateful day in the comment section and thanks @ilivelikeimtrying for making this happen with your incredible analysis 😉🙌🏼🧡
Day 24 of creatuanary meet Lord Camazotz, god of death, night and sacrifice
Big bad bat
Coming outta art block swinging like…
Someone once told me that when dealing with artblock, you gotta take care of yourself first. Because the more alive YOU feel, the more alive your art will feel.
You can break the block, juts give yourself some time.
You CAN do this 🙌🏼🧡✨😊
Special shout out to these incredible ladies who have been in my corner since the beginning @holydoncakes @saspas-corner @anobodyinabog
I've been struggling with what feels like, to me, a severe chronic art block for most of my adult life. I can and will go MONTHS without drawing, sometimes farting out occasional barebones idea doodles, but sometimes drawing absolutely nada. When I was younger up until my late teens I had this burning drive to create ALL DAY ERRYDAY with ridiculously large body of work strewn behind me (so much that I have lost more than I've ever had and its still a ton), peaking very early in terms of skill level through the sheer brute force of practice and study... but burning motivations led to burnout. I don't actually blame being TOO driven to create (no such thing dammit!) leading to the burnout, BUT I think some forms of motivation are more sustainable than others. I was driven by ambition, belligerence, more than a little fear. Not so healthy.
I've learned that it's not simple laziness because the "draw anyway" strategy of overcoming art block has NEVER worked for me. The more I push through a block with sheer willpower the more miserable I become, and the only reason I create at all is because it's a source of joy! I have arranged my life in ways to protect this, and is a major reason I have steered away from turning art into a career. There are a lot of IRL factors that I don't really want to elaborate on here (depression is a major one, however), but art doesn't happen in a vacuum, and an artist's life has to have SOME stability in order to have the surplus time and energy to actually draw/paint/compose/write/craft. My own psychic resources have simply been too scarce, I haven't been able to afford to spend those resources on creative projects. Its a Hierarchy of Needs thing. Once Food/Shelter/Safety has been taken care of, I'm spent. There is no surplus.
Annoyingly, fangirling sometimes injects some extra energy and if I then also have the time I just start scrawling fan art uncontrollably (if the fangirling is intense enough you can bet I will MAKE the time! There is NO stopping The Feels). But it's a sugar high and as soon as it's over the art stops too, independently of my desire to actually FINISH anything either (this is the worst part for me, guilt and frustration are the sugar coma, tho the pattern did help me identify the various sources of creative energy).
I dunno how to sum this up. To make art you gotta have an idea. Then the energy to translate the idea out of your soul, and the time/materials to make the actual piece. The spark, the fuel, and the engine. My flavor of art block is akin to running on fumes. Most discussions of art block seem to revolve around the missing spark/faulty ignition. I don't know if this comes off as self-pitying I SURE HOPE NOT but! I do believe I know what steps I need to take in my life to do something about this, so. I'm working on it. Talking about this stuff makes me very uncomfortable but I think it's important. Plus this is an art blog and well, I guess I feel a need to explain myself when I don't post any art??
In the meantime I work hard to not be too mad at myself for lack of productivity (especially when I used to be disgustingly prolific) cos that's an energy-spending exercise not a refueling one.
Artists!! How do you deal with art block, or periods of depression? (Do you deal at all?) Researching my dissertation, scary stuff.
bleh. i have art block.
Idk what I'm doing at this point anymore :)
Victor looks so done
Lucien looks like that angry yellow guy who stays with elmo from sesame street lol
The Amazing Digital Circus is so fun to watch ✨ What a pity I can't think of any good fanart composition