K3rb3r0s 2019-12-06 23:12:27

If you're going through a hard time consider your choices for moving on: Do not think that depression or taking drugs or whatever will help make it through because it probably will not. What you need to do is to reevaluate your life and adopt new habits to make it through the day. Depression is an ilness that can be cured, and you can start by doing things that keep you motivated such as going out, exercising, seeing a therapist also helps, maybe go cycling or join a club you care about, do yoga, or meditation. As a phase, remember that the most talented people in the world are not the ones who have lots of money (they are probably some of the most miserable instead living a lie) but the ones who have health and share it with the world. If your work aint't cutting it for yourself no more, it's time to find something that cherishes you back and motivates you to continue doing your art. Remember it's value lies not in the price tag, but in the worth you put while creating it. This is always temporary so bear with me and remember that after a storm comes the sunshine, so hang in there. Cheers.

DevilRat 2019-12-07 22:21:36

Branch out from instead of line art, as I noticed a similar thing happened to me illustrating the same undertale content. All of the time, I burnt out in traditional, then for a while was happy, during the digital transition... It shown the most chaos in illustration work of all time. >:L Then did backgrounds, loved it, hell got commissions monthly, but honestly. I couldn't handle seeing my lines get mixed with colors. So I went and stuck to painting out everything ever since as. Not all of us are drawer type artists, I am a paint, so anatomy has gotten a tad easier as everything has a flow. Your work can get better, but what helps is trying to adopt new types of content and experiment till you find something that clicks.

I used to not be happy with my starting digital phase how I would have to use 500+ layers per stroke, learned to organize it, when illustrating lines... Annoyed with the flow of color vs. line problem that I seem to suffer from... Adopted the limitation of my program and turned it into a strength of sucking at producing decent line tools, so went with the natural of me always experimenting in 3D and perspective all of the time, now look where it lead me. I feel you got good colors, but your lines need to be less harsh or is it a traditional -> digital issue?

I adopted new topics, new types of content, hell November is my NG's short lived golden age of content and late October. December rolling around... I am kinda stressed as work and trying to avoid art block by making my work much more surreal and exaggerated... I kinda changed the soul of my newgrounds from a traditional to digital, but the content was undertale to... Whatever I feel like.

DevilRat 2019-12-07 22:24:17

For me, I have started seven months, but would've done it earlier... I have tried to make my presence more known on newgrounds as I thought I was gonna be a specialist in a type of art, instead I kinda a generalist style painter. As I don't care what I produce as long as it is a quality illustration, but it would be nice to have more variety and produce more without waiting in between days.

DevilRat 2019-12-07 22:34:50

I am a newby on the block in art and illustration as I have been studying and observing everything to make all my work stand out. I have found a community that I already have ground roots in. Two, but your work has to learn the language of this website. I am starting to get down the language of this website thanks to the forum interactions, but if you can crack the language and understand your audience... If you can get those two things right. I believe your success will happen. I heard making a new email for craigslist and following illustrations over there is a great idea, and thinking about as a flea, to jump on that opportunity... I understand the work vs. art ratio. I recommend learning new techiniques and take notice of other artists. I might not be a squeaky clean artist, nor I pride myself on it. I have learned that drawing fandom characters is a viral content. It's nice to have original content, but people will get tired of that like you told me. Learn to make your illustrations have their own flavor that ONLY YOU CAN PROVIDE! Like a chaotic, surreal, cute, or edgy look. I tend to provide a chaotic and surreal look to my work that appeals to some types of people on this platform. If this place is an ecosystem, provide a role that isn't filled. I happen to fill a... Gradual surreal mockery artist and occasional digitally painted content that is typically not done that way.

DevilRat 2019-12-09 11:12:37

@WeaponizedAutist @KaileahPNelson Now make something that is truely YOU! I might not be the cleanest, but show some clean work time to time, but I hope I atleast helped inspire you or make you happy in any capacity despite being two very different types of artists.