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Fly with your own wings
🕑 Added 2025-03-10 15:00:06 +0000 UTCPersonnal art, where I've put 100% of my creativity and capacity in. It took me around 15 hours to do, and I hope you'll enjoy this art as m
Personnal art, where I've put 100% of my creativity and capacity in. It took me around 15 hours to do, and I hope you'll enjoy this art as much as I do.
It's not just a drawing like the others, this one I made during my burn out. I felt like everything I drew was disgusting, not creative, and repetitive, like i was stuck. I wanted to progress, but I didn't know where to go.
After a few day of rest, working on stuff that my heart choosed (my convention stand for exemple), I've tried to draw again, my body wanted to, but I didn't knew what. Some stuff inspired me, drawing that I'll do one day, but right now wasn't the time to draw these. So, I looked on Pinterest, desesperate to find inspiration, something to indicate me where to go.
First, they were nothing, then, I found poses refs, and one inspired me: this one. I don't know why, but I wanted to try.
I try to do something innocent, dynamic, but at the same time freeing. And, instead of trying to draw it fast like I used to, because motivation goes away quickly, I took my time. 1.30 hours to do the sketch, 5 hours to do the line art, 1.30 to do the color, and the rest for the shadings. i've worked slowly on it, and it felt good, resting, like I was being carefull on what I was doing.
Now, I know what I've been missing in my art. Patience, patience to let me time to think about it, patience to see every possibility, or interesting details. And this drawing showed me all of that.
Sure, the reason I was burn out wasn't just about the drawings, I was just working all the time, even when I was saying it's "personnal project". I'll try to be more carefull now, about being sure I'm fully rest.
But, if I want one day to reach this level of details for more of my drawing, it'll mean taking more time of them, and althought I can't do that right now with my salary, one day, i'll be abble to take my time on each drawing, more and more.
Comments
Felix the Fox
It looks amazing! Your work is outstanding. I’m glad that you were recognizing just how good you are. Sometimes it takes a while to notice all the small details and refine them over and over again. But after all that polishing you come out with something that is just superb.
Trigenn
Vraiment cette illustration est vraiment magnifique, je suis content que cela taille remonté le morale ❤️ te met pas de pression et prend soin de toi, car je suis sûr que la majorité de ta communauté et de ta clientèle préfère largement que tu prennes ton temps dans ton travail, aucun d'entre nous ne souhaite que tu sois malades ou en burn out. Ont t'aiment vraiment fort petite louve 🥰
Mercia
Very awesome work, really love how this piece turn out~. But yeah I understand. Sometime, you just need to do something to breaking that repetitiveness and then just take your time with things <3 Glad you are feeling a bit refresh :3
Frost
I want to squish you in a big hug. I'm glad you were able to do this, and it's gorgeous. I can't speak for everyone, but this is one of the biggest reasons I don't like rushing artists and I like giving them artistic freedoms when I comm them or get doodles. I want them to flex their talents as they see fit but also rest when needed. I figured that rushing will ruin any creativity and enthusiasm they have for their craft. Those are two big things I never want to ruin or stifle of them. I'm so glad you are doing well now and that you were able to finally take a bit of a much needed break!
