If I don't learn this...

I've realized I will never draw a comic ever if I can't learn to loosen up and just draw. Everything I do has to be so freaking perfect I'll never actually do anything!

So guise, if you have any advice on how to just draw faster and accept your mistakes or what-have-you, please enlighten me. I have been in a comics rut for years and it is sad times for me. I actually have the time to do it now, but I never go quickly enough because it will never be good enough.

Also, I have serious issues capturing motion. 95% of my drawings just look posed. Or they are posed. Or they're stationary in general.

So yeah. Advice would be so appreciated. If you want examples I've got some older stuff on DeviantART that is still a pretty true to how I draw now.

Wait, there is one picture that I feel has movement, but it is really stylized and not how I draw on a regular basis. And you can see where I started getting nitpicky anyway (the tiny details appearing hither and thither).

Who needs proportions when you've got style?? (hint: I do.)

Not a new idea

Oh my gooses, you guise. I should do videos.

No, I haven't spent all day watching Youtube, what are you talking about...
...heh heh.


Also! I finished my painting. I like it, but I still aim to improve (pictures to come when I get a camera). Next up on the painting front: possible Green Lantern logo in spray paint. Next up on the sewing side: An awesome dress from Little Green Dresses, a book I got at a local new and used bookstore, Cavalier House Books (LOVE that store). Next up on the digital art locale: I apparently get to figure out how to use Photoshop so I can seem "professional" and do a presentation for a local art club. Haaaahahahahaha XD Then I'm going to do a bookworm at some point and some other wonderfiul compound wordplay. Finally, in the knitting area: I have made 2 original tams and am working to put together the patterns. I will possibly sell them on Etsy. If I have the guts.

Finally, my friends and I have some humourous videos to make...that may or may not ever happen.

WIP

Hey guise I'm PAINTING!

This is a work in progress for a good friend of mine whose birthday was definitely long enough ago that I should have finished this. Unfortunately, I am still without a camera, so you'll have to get the terrible quality that is the tiny camera built into my laptop.

There is more to be done, and I will be trimming some off of the bottom. (Also, I had to hold the laptop, so that's my hair in the top right corner...) The rest of the background will fade to black on the edges, and then there will be (more) splatter painting.

I am supah psyched.

UPDATE: I finished it, I like it, and my friend loves it. Bi-winning.

Can't do much without it...

I need a new camera. See, I made a dress using this super awesome tutorial, but I cannot show it to you, because I do not have a camera. I used to have one, but it broke. I don't even have a camera on my phone at the moment. It's so sad, I know. But I've been busy lately with more hands-on crafts again, and less drawing, so I can't show it to you without something to document it! I've been having the same problem with my Ravelry projects, and I just hate having low-quality webcam photos or none at all.

So, coming as soon as I get a camera, my dress done with Talk 2 the Trees' awesome tutorial, a shirt I reconstructed using the ever-awesome book, Generation T (and also here is their main website), and a shrug pattern made by yours truly that requires knitting, purling, picking up stitches, and a total of 4 - 6 inches of mattress stitch on each side. No circular knitting, for those who don't like it, and it's knit side-to-side, so no raglan shaping or anything like that. It's also great for people who just want a break from difficult, long-term projects (like I did).

Bear with me while I get this rather essential piece of equipment, and I promise you won't be disappointed! Well...you may be disappointed. I can't really promise anything concerning your emotions. And I don't want to guarantee anything since I can't really refund your time or take back the words you read. But still! It's gonna be there! With pictures! =D