You Used To Be Such A Person

My current goal with my artstyle is to get more cartoony and stylized with my characters...

More about all this below!

For a while I had been strictly staying to attempts at realistic stuff. Not full-on realism, but as good as I could get it.

It was fun, but hard to do, and I was always struggling with some feature. And I never really let myself do cartoony stuff because I had this mindset that if I started doing that, I'd "lose my progress" on all the realistic skill.

Then for art class we had a unit on cartoon characters. It put me out of my comfort zone, but I was actually having WAY more fun with these characters and CONSTANTLY creating these little cartoon designs where I could, like, instantly TELL exactly who they were.

Not to say realism is boring, not at all, just that I think it's important to find which style is, personally, the most enjoyable to draw with. And as someone who is really into expressiveness and character design, I think something more stylized and exaggerated will be a good direction for me. It's already proven to be something I thoroughly enjoy...

DO NOT USE AI GENERATED "ART." Commission a real artist.

"But I don't have money"

Then draw it.

"But I can't draw"

Then learn.

"I don't want to take the time to learn/I want it now"

THEN YOU DON'T GET WHAT YOU WANT. Or you can at least settle with a poor-looking result if you draw it now. Hell, at least use some character creator/dress-up game like those picrew things or those Gacha games — you know, SUPPORTING ACTUAL ARTIST'S WORK!

You aren't entitled to see all the pretty looking images when you want, how you want, and for free.

Get it for free, and you either don't get it as good as you want or as fast as you want — you either settle with the fact your own drawing won't look how you want it, or take the time to learn. (unless you're lucky enough to find someone doing commissions for free. But that's still better than AI.)

Get it fast, and it either won't be good, or won't be free.

Get it good, and it either won't be quick, or won't be free.

This post should also apply to other forms of media (written works, music). But as someone who draws, this is the most relevant to me.

Eurgh she needs a name

Also. Why do I always draw clock heads with the 3:00 configuration

More character concept

Will probably make the shirt colour more saturated + make the purple darker.

This is part of a group of characters I'm making for a webcomic idea I might make at some point! Though it will require more planning and probably better dedication skills than I currently have.

I have a banger user in mind I'm just thinking on it make sure it's right. clock boy

yknow I get really nervous typing the word clock

hey

I'm rebranding I'm not a skeleton anymore I'm a clock. anyway I still have yet to change my username but that's. not my problem yet

MY BOY

There he is....

what do you mean I can't just post a singular line from a song I'm having a crisis to and say nothing else?

Welcome to: some of the favourites I found in last year's sketchbook

the hair in my profile is from an actual image of my me

Character concept doodles.....

Some clock fellas... they're for a game idea that I wanna make after I learn more about coding and such