For the record, this is a rant. Odds are by the time I'm done with this, if it even gets finished, I'll be all better (or somewhat so) and there'll be no need to even really bring this up. I've felt frustrated like this before, and so I don't doubt that I'll just get over it.
But yet again I'm very irritated by how I draw. And it's not that I'm unhappy with my anatomy
or that I don't like my style...
But I just really hate the way I draw. I don't know I j ust feel like my art is so bland and boring and lifeless. There's, like, no.... interesting aspect to it. Sure, I can draw poses, and my anatomy mistakes aren't as bad (or, rather, as noticeable) but other than that, what's going for it? It just seems so boring to me. There's nothing that distinguishes it from anything else, and I hate it. I hate it so badly x__X
I keep trying to reference poses so that my pencil kind of flows easier, but no matter what I do I always find myself drawing the same s**t. It's so frustrating. I feel like I'm doing a hell-a-lot of work for not much to show for it. ;;
What's wrong with me?
Whur has mah talent gone?!
*flail*
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Hot room is hot.
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That frustration, grr. Specially when I can't seem to be able to do anything other than straight forward poses? I knows the paaain.
Buuut...your art is not lifeless. The characters you draw have such pretty faces! And the hair and outfits and delicate poses, it all adds to the awesomeness that is Kiru's art.
Not boring either. You draw pretty. Dem's women be curvy. And distracting. >.>
But mook. I feel the same way, if it's any comfort. I just learn to listen to others. Heh, once, I complained that I had a chubby belly. >w> They told me I didn't. Then five minutes later, I insulted my own artwork. My friend Eliza told me, "You can either be fat, or have crappy art, but not both." I chose neither, 'cause I kinda started...listening, so to speak, at that point.
It's hard, but you have to look at your work from a different perspective some times. It's healthy not to want to burn everything you create once in a while.
Also, reference art is pooey. Sometimes it helps, yeah, but the best way I've found to work with anatomy is to find a human manikin. Like, a friend. Then start measuring up their arms and legs and bending them around like giant dolls 'til you know how they work. I have my male friends flex for me when I want to draw muscles. =D
Also, another idea for expanding ideas on poses and stuff is to randomly draw people.
OR, even this, it's like charades, sorta.
Write a bunch of names of characters, or people, like child, pandanthro, old man, young man, and stick 'em in a hat. Then in another hat write a bunch of things like in a car, sitting, drinking tea, reading, running.
Then in another hat, if you really want to go out there, stick in things like "With an octopus, on a swingset, in a tree."
So you get things like "An old panda drinking tea with an octopus." Or "Chelara in a car with Zafie."
Oh mai.
It's kinda fun. ^^ The random factor. And giving actions and stuff to your drawings, actual scenes and not just poses, helps to exercise the mental 3D image makers in your braaain.
Or you can draw a bunch of random, reaaally exaggerated stick man poses and work with those. Or have a friend pose. I volunteer. =D
I should follow some of my own advice. ><;
But yeah, sorry for the mini rant, hope that helps somewhat. ^__^;
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