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I just found your blog and im absolutely head over heels for your work! Im so glad i stumbled across it. How do you stays so motivated? Ive been struggling with that for years and i can see i haven't been improving alot in my art.

Heya! Thanks!

I think most of us are gonna have a different answer, and Ithink most of them are going to include practicing every day, but again, sometimes even that might prove kinda hard. There’s some things I personally do to encourage myself to get up and smash that pen around. It might or might not be any of help, but I feel like that’s what works for me(シ. .)シ

The biggest piece of advice I can offer you is that you’ve gotta convince yourself from the get go that you WILL get better no matter what you dump on the paper. Think of it as it set in stone, like the universe is just going to give you your pay after you fill a quota.

To do that, I’d look at past drawings, from months oreven years ago. I date all my sketchbook pages to make that searching process easier and it’s overall more satisfying to look at physical dates¯\_(ツ)_/¯Although that canbe used as a reminder of how much you drew in a certain period, I’d say there’smost certainly things you might have produced outside of this, like doodles inmargins or sketches in notebooks and these things count too!

After finding these, my first reflex is dissingcriticizingthem because man, what were doing. Why is the arm bending this way, stop shoving rocks as hands, how far isthat chin goin-oh, you still have difficulty with that ¾ view to the left? Andlike, I feel that noticing these things now is already a huge step forward, because it shows your skills increased. Ifyou were that terrible three months ago, can you imagine how great the insultsthe you in three months will dish out be if you keep that work up? Absolutelyfantastic. I live out of spite to show tomorrow’s me I can do better( ಠ ͜ʖ ಠ)

Sometimes I’ll draw something I’m not feeling too hot about,and that’s where future me comes in, because I’m confident that if I can’t puta finger on what’s wrong today, someday I’ll know, and I’ll have fun at it andsomehow that itchy feeling will seem so little that day.

And then there’s gonna be those times in which you probablyfelt like you were better BEFORE or that there’s some things you could do thatyou don’t?? Remember you could do??ლ(¯ロ¯"ლ) I like to call that the trampoline effectbecause really, that’s just how learning is. It destroys a concept you gotcomfortable in and levels it up a notch, though not before wrecking it first.

But really, the main thing you could do to help yourself isto have fun, draw what you want, whether it’s fanart, your 25th jellyfish of the week or anything original. You can always try to keep it fresh by trying newmediums, whether it’s digital brushes or actual paint or ink, or even doing small things like changing the pressure you put on your pen. It might notalways turn out great, but as long as you have fun, you’ll keep on wanting tobetter yourself and that, that’s the biggest advantage you could give yourself.

#I'm saying all that but really everyone's going to have a different way #also mobile is destroying my spacing orz

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