Zommer Doodles

 Picked up my Cintiq tablet for the first time in almost 2 weeks on Thursday and gotta say it's good to be back on digital again. My wrist was a little stiff and sore after only two hours or drawing, but that just means I need to exercise it again over the next week or two. It's cool. I'll get my endurance back soon.

Anyway. I didn't want to pressure myself with any serious drawing projects just after I got over my burnout, so I figured "Y'know what? Moshi Monsters sounds really fun right now. Let's draw those crazy kids and don't worry about what other people think for a change".
So I did.

I doodled all six monsters on Thursday, but yesterday I felt like focusing on only one of them. Really work out how they look like in my style, and colour them to my taste. Maybe add some more personality to them while I was at it.

Think I've done a pretty alright job! :)

If the picture looks a little (or very) blurry then you can blame me for using a brush with the width of 1 pixel, instead of my normal inked pens.
Why was I using a brush that was only 1 pixel big? Because one of the best ways to overcome art anxiety for me is picking a random pencil/pen/crayon/etc that I would never dream of using and using it instead of my perfected settings and brushes.

It's super fun, but very experimental. And results may not look 100% pleasing, but hey. That wasn't the point for me this week.

Fast, loose, hard-edged and very old-school... It felt cool. Made me think of all those first artists on the computer and what they must've put up with.
I've deduced I am very lucky living in the modern age. 

Rain and Acid

Another week away from the laptop brings me a little bit closer to feeling up to the tasks that challenge me every day. But I'm gonna need some more time alone before I can pick up my drawing tablet and start working again for real.

That's okay though.
When Christmas rolls around I'll have all the time in the world to do what I need to.
It's cool.

Enjoy a rough sketch of my Phossy boy in the meantime.
Have a nice weekend, guys. Hope you're all doin' your best, and if that best just happens to be not very good (like mine) then know it's only your best today and your best tomorrow might be better.

StarDust Nerds

Feeling more alive than I was last week, but I think I need to spend a good three days playing pokemon and listening to SPG before I can think about drawing seriously again. Which still kinda sucks, but I'm at the zen-point of the cycle so I'm just gonna vibe.

*shrug* Guess I'm spending the October in survival mode. That's okay, tho. Some months be like that.

Whenever I have an ongoing comic project, I make a point to not let myself draw fanart (uh, or just the same thing as the comic project...) because that's just using up juice which could've been used on the comic.
Which helps? (It does, I swear) But then I'm just sitting there with two dozen ideas which I resist drawing and I get sad because I really want to draw them.

But since I'm taking a break, I figured I'd let myself have some fun and draw my Joy and Fear.

Fantom Felix

Hi there.
Burnout finally caught up with me again. You probably saw it creeping up on me over the past few weeks, but it came as a shock to me.

Nothing new was drawn as a result. So I'll share this sketch I did last week.

Looking through all my old art was interesting.
This is the original drawing from like... March 2018 I think.

Lil' bit has change, but overall you can tell it's the same dude. Style hasn't changed much. Just got better.
Cool.

A Little bit of Joy

Uuh...
My brain feels like it's full of white fog.

Hm.

Well. I kinda fell flat halfway through the week and I was unable to draw anything 'productive'. So I let myself have some fun with a quick Inside Out sketch instead.

 It was really nice colouring something to a ridiculous degree again.
The pose didn't come out too badly either.

And compared with what I could do last year, I think it's safe to say I improved a little bit. So that made me happy. :)