Why Can't I Get The Motivation To Paint - Tumblr Posts

I know that Big Art Pieces™ are what will actually Get You Places but can't I just do a thousand little sketches of birds and androgynous anime characters and call it a day? Just an army of scribbly bois

Do I answer all of these?...?

1. I technically have a few default drawing programs on my computer (ms paint) I don't use, but I use pretty much any other program my outdated computer can run lol

2. Left, tbh; I draw a lot in the right hand margins of my schoolwork so I have a lot of experience drawing people facing left.

3. I had a lot of ideas and hyperfixations surrounding birds when I was little, and a lot of that shows through in my art

4. Long hair. Hate it, but love a few characters with it

5. I have two seperate socials for my 'proper' art and my fanart and still like 90% of my art is thrown on the shelf or in my sketch portfolio

6. The colours of things I've seen or the paint strokes of music I'm listening to (it's hard to explain that one)

7. Woodworking. Massive respect

8. I had this idea where a cat in a small french village influences the local politics via butterfly effect shenanigans. That's still on hold- though I find myself thinking about it

9. No conventions! Just word salad, abbreviations, inconsistent camelcase vs underscoring

10. SCARVES SCARVES SCARVES

11. Vocaloid babeeeeee. Also reaction videos and speed runs of Zelda (usually music and videos at the same time

12. Eyes and mouth- fun and satisfying to place. Wings are my absolute favourite tho-

13. Maybe some past figure like Andy Warhol or Leonardo DaVinci? I like most of the people I admire-

14. Various types of birds for emotions or concepts. Ex. Crows represent the psyche to me

15. Basement

16. According to a lot of people irl, political commentary comics. I don't like doing them though, they were mostly vent artworks

17. Water. So much water.

18. A lot. Not that much but too much.

19. Feathers!

20. Wings!

21. Hyperrealism. I tend to be more expressionistic, but I admire hyperrealists.

22. Drawing a bad drawing or playing piano exercises

23. Normal most of the time. Gel if I'm colouring scanned linearts. Multiply or shadow map for shading sometimes.

24. I have been down the depths of the stock image rabbit hole.

25. Various anime I've never seen, random indie gallery artists I can't remember.

26. I've made a lot of bird vent artworks that have deep motifwork to me but are interpreted as just pretty and realistic oil/watercolour paintings

27. I like to just doodle a bit first, really whatever fandom I'm into lmao (most of what's on my blog is said warmup doodles)

28. Just my school's art market

29. Undertale/Deltarune. Cool, but just not inspiring really.

30. I have an irl painting called 'Nostalgia' that I really love, but everyone just things is a bit creepy:')

Weirdly Specific Artist Ask Game

Didn't see a lot of artist ask games, wanted to make a silly one.

(I wrote this while sick out of my mind last year and it's been collecting dust in my drafts, I might as well let it run free) 1. Art programs you have but don't use

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

3. What ideas come from when you were little

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

9. What are your file name conventions

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

12. Easiest part of body to draw

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing

14. Any favorite motifs

15. *Where* do you draw (don't drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

17. Do you eat/drink when drawing? if so, what

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any

23. Do you use different layer modes

24. Do your references include stock images

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with

28. Any art events you have participated in the past (like zines)

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated