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Oh Cinder you boob, you've gone and burned yourself out. :v
So anyways, let me tell you a few things: First of all, when you say you aren't improving, that is complete and utter bollocks, i see a very significant improvement during your thread from start to end (especially during the drawabox arc). It's a very gradual process, often so gradual that you can't see the progress yourself before you compare the present to 4 years ago. I know i often find myself looking for "breakpoints" in my own gallery, only to be disappointed that i can't really find any. It hurts sometimes, it truly does, and i get why you feel like you do. You just gotta remember, feelings aren't always in tune with reality, and that you are your own harshest critic. It's a delicate fucking balance between being okay with what you do, while still realizing that you can always learn. If you consider everything you draw flawless, you won't improve, but if you think it's all trash, you'll be disheartened. Consider both what you did well and what could be improved, and at the same time, allow yourself to have fun. Draw silly things that make you laugh and smile, and even if you believe you've failed miserably, you can have a giggle at how badly you think it went. Dark humour is the saviour of many a dark situations. :v

I know i might be preaching to the choir here, but with how much joy drawing has brought me, it saddens me to see others get disheartened about it, especially when they've gotten so far. I get that you're probably burnt out right now, and it's totally okay to take breaks, however long they may be. I also get that i may have been... Less than diligent at commenting on your stuff, and for that i am sorry, but know that i'll be happy to see you get back to it, whenever that may be.

Ooo, what a nice dump to be surprised by just as i get ready to write a reply. :v

Ok so beginning from one end, that is a very nice walk cycle, plenty of swagger and livelyness in there. From a realism standpoint it's probably a bit odd to have the arms that far out, but this is obviously not intended to be maximum realism.

That map making tool is looking really neat! I'm reminded of Darwinia with the current look, though textures will proooooobably change that.

The pixely things are also looking good; i particularly like the little guy in the lower left of the second one. If it's what i think it is (vaguely lizardy face with big eye and sharp toothy things in front), it's adorable. :V

also speaking of game here have a pew pew

Mm, nice. That is a big-ass stone squid god. :v

yeah, i tried looking at tutorials but most of them have a lot of steps and are done in photoshop which i barely use so it looks like a royal pain to do.

anyways, i finished the flag set i was missing for the project. this is the Southern Hemisphere collage (?):

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I like the middle-left one with the rising sun motive, it's pleasing to me. Also, the middle-right one reminds me a lot of Greece. :v

I love the Dire Birb Shook. Much more friendly than a flock of Dire Pigeons though. Quieter and less messy too.

Thanks! Also yes, fuck dire pigeons. Imagine a regular pigeon poo, but then make it dire. That means bigger and probably also corrosive. NOBODY WANTS THAT ON THEIR CAR.

also here have a snooty thing with an experimental simple abstract background


I call it a siakal. :v

Oof, my mood just went completely down the drain for little to no reason. I'm not crying, but it's dangerously close. Accompanying this is a whole host of bad thoughts, though thankfully no suicidal ones. I feel like a complete and absolute failure, a useless fool, a pretentious moron who won't ever get anywhere in life and the sterling example of wasted potential. Like i can't even do anything right, like i should just give in to depression and slowly fade out of existence, because nobody will even fucking notice (... besides my immediate relatives). Logically i know that all of these are wrong, but emotionally... Holy shit. I've been down in the dumps before, but this is BAD. I hope this is gone tomorrow, else i'm in for a bad time.

what he's gonna do is FIGHT YOU OF COURSE

I'm still trying to get the hang of digital arts. Not that my pencil work is much better.

It feels like I'm fighting the tablet sometimes, so the smudging is my poor attempt to either blend colours or hide my preliminary outlines without getting rid of them completely.

Anyways, hopefully this isn't too bad. My art marks aren't stellar.

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Ooo, cool scene! The smudging is much more subtle here, and that makes it look a lot nicer to me. As for struggling with the tablet, trust me, that's just a matter of practice. At some point it'll basically become second nature, and then you don't have to worry about hiding little flaws (which you shouldn't be doing anyways).

and here's where i'd normally post a doodle but it turned out terribly so you'll have to make do with this silly little animation i made to explain to people what caev means

The only appropriate response is for Shook to draw a digital fruit.

BWEHEHEHEHEH these are old though

They're usually anywhere from 30 minutes to 4 hours. I don't hate myself enough to do 30 minutes and don't have the attention span for 4 straight hours, so ~2ish is a nice compromise for practicing landscape/scenery composition and a target for tightening the process up so I get a decent image faster. The two previous scenes I did took a lot more time and didn't look as good so I think I'm getting somewhere!

I'd be interested in seeing the fruits of your digital process

Ah, i see, and yes, you are most certainly getting somewhere. :v

also while i work on sleeping so i can get to my display tablet tomorrow i decided to power up the demonthing with pencil anyways because nights aren't for sleeping are they


Gonna be fun comparing it to digital. :V

edit: aaaaaaaaaand digital. Pretty crude work, but o well lol.

Oh man, i seem to be slowly regaining the ability to doodle absent-mindedly! I know that sounds like a total given to just about anyone with functional hands, but fact is that i have, for a long time, had a lot of difficulty drawing anything without a very clear idea in my head. Definitely related to anxiety, and now that i finally seem to actually be winning the constant fight against said anxiety (which is also a major happy, albeit a more long term one than a burst of euphoria), i also seem to slowly be overcoming that block. 2018's off to a good start! :v

MAXIMUM FUUDO

Looking forward to any eventual visual feasts.

meanwhile i'm just cocking around trying to figure out how to use display tablet effectively


I RAN OUT OF PATIENCE OKAY