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fairyboxman.bsky.social
ive literally never made an account on something like this before but i figured it would be a helpful means of chronicling the Art JourneyTM mostly just a vent account following https://drawabox.com/. please provide constructive criticism on my drawings
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i am ghosting lines even with just my wrist now

drawing random poses normally for the sake of it: fun. drawing random poses for the sake of depicting Siffrin: debilitating. ive managed to get a small ways into depicting him a few times. the issue is:

i want to have fun and improvement isn't analogous with that

paralysis. too many things i want to do and could do and i don't know and can't find the path to get there and i hate not knowing things. one of those hopeless nights.

i get lost and cannot decide what to do next. what/how to study for what i want to draw theres stuff like oc drawings or drawing more complex monster designs or nsfw id like to draw but i lack skill and all of those scare me. ESPECIALLY the latter. i dont have the guts to attempt that

i am so very far from my ideals

every time i make a goal to draw a specific thing i become paralyzed bro

starting is hard, but past that i find sketching particularly liberating. it's rather fun to just theorycraft on a page like that in general it helps to not laser-focus on my goals and ideals, as much as that might annoy me sometimes. i do say i wish i could sketch people easier, though

i cannot break or brave that fear of drawing poorly. i will bend the 50% rule if it means i can create

i don't have the skill to make my ideal drawings, but those ideals are all that i want to be doing in the first place

despite all the pain i fail to endure, how do i always feel like a day without drawing is wasted?

im probably gonna bend the rules a little so i can actually go somewhere. i would rather proceed "incorrectly" than do nothing by being stuck on doing everything "correctly"

i took my adderall and hyperfocused on a roblox game instead of drawing

i mourn my own lack of competence. action is the only way i can fix any of this, but i am horribly paralyzed and left to constantly think and ruminate and distract myself from the negativity

no shit

i want to draw

i want to cry

sunk cost fallacy

why do i get literally lightheaded and anxious when i keep trying to push myself to sit and draw and do anything. why.

I SHOULD be able to do better. and better as in, making myself draw, whether it's shit or not. i just want to create without being paralyzed.

i like the idea of being able to draw well a lot. i like the idea of being an artist, but i can't tell if i like being an artist but i don't want to give up

motivation't

ive tried getting help with this from my therapist but i need to continue discussing things how to get past the revulsion of drawing certain things incorrectly

WHY do i suffer so much with this i just want to have fun

ive been able to progress through drawabox more but i mourn my issues approaching the stuff i actually want to draw you know. stuff that isn't as fun but you really want to draw it more than just another silly creature doodle and stuff. and SIFFRIN why cant i try drawing the creature referenceless

acting on a whim should be easier so i can draw on a whim more

stagnation

i dont accurately measure by time or pages done for 50% play vs study since the amount of effort i put into each varies, i take a lot longer to fill a 50% page than a study one. im probably gonna try doing 1 page drawabox study per 1 non-drawabox study, though, see if thats balanced

draw siffrin. no reference. cannot.

im gonna focus on drawabox and proko's figure drawing course first and foremost

today is better day

no significant work today but hey i did something

i like to push myself when drawing even as painful as it is. how did i not know i was attached to the struggle in any capacity

been sittin here for 2 hours and havent drawn shit

rather sad about my inabilities today

not for today, i guess

i MUST CREATE

thinking, i think ive finally identified a pretty good size i can aim for when drawing, i can relegate my old tiny drawings to thumbnail status lol its maybe one third the height of a page, maybe more? i can use more if im trying to draw environments anyways

still waiting

i wanna get back to drawing but some sort of weird panic sets in when i think about it

3D is the bane of me