I Feel Like Drawing
Thursday November 7, 2024
I daydream about being home and drawing (or doing anything creative on the computer) all the time. It is partially because I feel like this while at work. Below are some doodles from a conference I was at. My goal was to finish a drawing of the current speaker + a Naomi doodle before the next speaker began.
The desire to draw is also sparked when talking to anyone about creative endeavours. That typically happens with people on the internet, because not many people in my day-to-day life are into web design or drawing. Sometimes I think it’s easier to talk to “internet people.” It’s (mostly) anonymous, and talking about Hugo shortcodes or WIP Naomi drawings is frictionless, since it’s all digital to begin with. People can respond at their leisure and (hopefully) don’t feel obligated to just quickly say something nice. All the constructive criticism I get comes from the internet. Anyway, whenever someone sends me a sketch they’re working on, it kick-starts my desire to drop the boring shit I’m doing, put on some good music, and melt hours of the day away in Krita or Inkscape. You may be thinking two things:
- What happens to all these WIPs?
- “Melting hours of the day away” sounds bad
Aside from the fact that I regularly don’t finish drawings, I don’t think most of them would “fit” here even if they were finished. Naomi is just the mascot, not the main focus of this site. I prefer to use drawings to spice pages up a little, like on the high scores page or the Versus City Log index.
And yeah, spending such a long time in front of a computer monitor is bad. It never feels like hours. Sometimes I’m so in the zone that I forget to eat. When I’m finally done drawing I usually realize how hungry I am, and I sometimes feel like I just wasted a day on a drawing (or multiple drawings) that I’m not even happy with. Whatever. There are good days and bad days. I think a more strict drawing “schedule” could help. Dedicating a certain amount of time to grinding fundamentals (I never do this) and limiting how much total time I’m allowed to stare at Krita would probably be a lot more helpful than drawing ONE anime girl in a void over the course of many hours, redrawing the head 600 times.
I think I have a negative (but realistic) view of my own art. I know I’m not very good, but I try not to bitch and complain about it. The only solution is to keep drawing. Drawings have a “shelf life” of a few weeks before I start to really see the flaws. That might be a good thing, because if I was completely satisfied with every drawing I shit out, I would never improve. However, I’m already sick of the stickers I made. If you want any, get them now before I stick ’em all over the place just to get rid of them. I’m itching to make more.
You should show me your art
Send me the sketches you’ve been sitting on. Dump your original character’s deep lore. Make me hate being stuck at work even more. There is contact info on my about page, or you can just leave a link to an online gallery or something in the comments.