What do you struggle with most as an Artist?

From head to toe, there isn’t a part which I’m not struggling with.

And sometimes struggling for a long time makes me want to puke.

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Currently I kinda struggle with starting to draw something… I’ll sit here all day and think “I should draw something” but I just can’t bring myself to open an art program or to get a piece of paper and a pen… :no_mouth::green_heart::eyes::sparkles:

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Recently, I’ve been struggling with not having anything that I want to draw.

I haven’t actually drawn much for a while, so it’s also harder for me to remember where things are and how I like to do things…

Also, composition is definitely something I struggle a lot with from a more technical perspective.

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Composition can definitely be rough. I don’t draw scenes very often so I rarely come across it as an issue, but with covers and such that I’ve done in the past I ended up sticking to very basic composition because the complex stuff was throwing my actual art off :sweat:

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Right now? Not wasting countless hours on adding details no one will ever notice… If you zoom in on some of my more recent digital animal art, you’ll notice small colour differences which I spent a lot time on to make the fur/feathers look better although no one will ever notice them because the colour is only different by 1%, so I’m kinda the only person who notices it because I usually notice small colour differences easily… :eyes::sparkles::green_heart::no_mouth:

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Everyone be talking about how hard hands are but what about shoulders huh.
These things are like necks but stretched and they suck because if you can’t get the shoulders right then the arms just look weird and then at that point you might as well yeet it in the trash because of these stupid frickin shoulders god why do we have shoulders they suck, THEY SUCK!

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YES! preach

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Honestly, I struggle being creative with anatomical positioning :)) woah that sounds fancy when i read it :joy:

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inhales I’M GARBAGE! ASYMMETRICAL GARBAGE! bangs fist on ground (please get the reference…)

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I quite like shoulders when I’m doing a portrait :eyes: Necklines are fun, I especially like slender ones :smiley:

Dynamic poses can be rough, there are tips to help with that though!

I’m gonna put you out of your misery here, I’m a Soul Eater fan :joy:

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I don’t know how to deal with other Soul Eater fans! (Sorry not sorry)

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Ahhh, a person of culture, we like Crona our non-binary monarch :eyes:

Lol yes. Precious child. See my pfp.

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Hehehe, indeed :smiley:


As a matter of fact, for anyone struggling with dynamic poses, just look up Crona from Soul Eater. They’re constantly in weird, body-breaking dynamic poses that look all kinds of slick

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I swear, he(I think of Crona’s a male, don’t fight me) can bend freaking backwards.

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I don’t disagree :joy:

(The Japanese usually uses they/them, translators are just weird about that, but I don’t think Crona cares :eyes:)

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There’s another where it says Gender? Crona doesn’t know how to deal with that.

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@Artists do you have any struggles you wanna talk about here?

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Procrastination is a big issue for me, but i have to get past it due to commissions, but its so f^cking hard to bring myself to draw these sometimes lol

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