I Needed This In My Life So Much

I needed this in my life so much

I just had a small epiphany why you might like other people's art more than your own:

It's the lack of suspension of disbelief.

When you see something someone else has drawn or painted, you take in the content faster than you take in the technical aspects. You experience it as pseudo-real, the same way you stop perceiving animated characters as drawn or book characters as written as you get into the story.

On the other hand, when you yourself have made something, all you see is the machine behind the theater, so to speak. You're probably thinking about lines, shading, coloring in a "does this make sense? Is this the best decision I could have made?"-kind of way.

I think that's also why sometimes, pictures you haven't looked at for a long time starts looking nice to you again, à la: "Hey past-me was unto something! Why can't I replicate it nowadays?". It's probably specifically because you've forgotten the process of making it that you are now seeing it with fresh eyes.

Art is an illusion, but a magician has a hard time tricking themself. So don't be so hard on yourself: it's probably just that you can't see the magic right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.

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arcsonara

11 months ago

WIP

Had a friend send me an outfit reference to draw a character around. Decided to go for a strawberry cow gardening. It fits pretty well.

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arcsonara

4 months ago

Beans

Love that they just let you keep going.

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arcsonara

1 year ago

(Intert interesting description)

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arcsonara

1 year ago

break is over, and I already feel like I need another one. Anyway, I'm experimenting with different rendering methods, so have a messy drawing of me being tired.

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arcsonara

4 months ago

They're such a smug little prick, and I love them for it.

Also holy heck, I need to start using references more often.

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arcsonara

1 year ago

I've done it! and gave my avatar/persona an update as well!

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lookit meee I have ears now and “hair” really happy with how it turned out

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arcsonara

1 year ago

I've come to the realization that feet/shoes are harder for me to draw than hands ever were.

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arcsonara

1 year ago

Starting to realize I should probably make myself an actual pfp......

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Welp pretty bad time to be stuck in art block maybe this will rescue me

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arcsonara

1 year ago

Ready for round two? My hubris is unending.

The Age Old Struggle:

Tried making a comic strip for the first time and had allot of fun with it. I hope to make some sort of sequel or extension to this in the future when I have the time.

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arcsonara

1 year ago

Ayharsjgffhkdiycgioh, I love this so much thank you! 🥹