It might be time for me to ignore the 'you must learn to draw realism / figure studies first before you can stylise characters well'. Like maybe so but I'm bored af & simply don't draw/create regardless because of it. Maybe I can allow myself to draw janky stylised characters so at least I have fun

Pacific Rim! That soundtrack always helps me lock in

So true, I'm loving people's comments here too.

What's helped me is learning about historical artists' processes, how it was perfectly normal to spend months or years on a single oil painting, usually with many sketches and iterations.

Capitalism & social media has really distorted the process.

Update: I did reach some kind of breakthrough! I have a lot more ideas & I'm trying new things.

Not all of those things *work*, but the exploration feels great.

I've finally rediscovered my love for digital art, and I'm dipping my toes into pixel art after fearing trying for so long too ^^

After posting this I remembered that I wanted to try more textured brushes, quickly went over this with a new layer and now I'm like... fuck that's WAY nicer/what I'm going for.

Guess in my next piece I'll use textured brushes 😁