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lunashiba · 1 year

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December 8, 2022 (Part 2)

Hello everybody- this is a follow-up post from my previous Thanksgiving post. I felt the post was getting quite long, so I decided to split everything up since I have a lot of photos of doodles, sketches, and photos I wanted to share. These will include all the drawings I've done up to now since I returned from Thanksgiving break. I'm using this opportunity during my University's reading days right before finals to write this to give myself a break from studying. As always, I've put it all down below.

I guess to start off, I'll throw out the sketches I did on a whiteboard with friends while studying, which includes the photo above.

I'm quite a fan of these sorts of sketches, which are heavily inspired by Krenz's art and sketches. I've always felt a lot more at ease with these compared to figure sketching- I hope to be able to improve in the future and draw even more. Next below are the sketchbook doodles I've done since then.

I don't think that all my sketches are successful, and I have quite a few amounts of "duds" in there. I don't consider any of these worthy of posts, but I hope that maybe by including these, I can help others who may feel that their sketches are terrible, and so they're terrible artists. For me, it definitely takes tens or hundreds of sketches before I get something that I really like. The more practice, the lower the number gets.

I like to think of it as a crafting percentage- saying maybe there's a 5% chance of having a really, really good sketch, or a one in twenty chance. Depending on your luck, maybe you get it on the first roll. Sometimes though, you gotta get through nineteen bad rolls before you get it on your twentieth. I like to think of all my bad sketches as "getting them out of the way". Just pop out some silly fun sketches, and you'll be closer to rolling that "good sketch". In reality, all sketches are good, no matter how silly or dumb. Drawing is drawing, and whatever makes you happy and draw more is the correct answer- even if the right answer is just that you prefer doing other things over art. It's just layering priorities.

I like to play a lot of video games- most of the time having a priority over art. When I'm really, really tired, all I can do really is play some games to relax. When I think about booting up my drawing program, and all the long commitment things to do just to initiate a drawing, I get a bit more exhausted and decide to boot up Guilty Gear Strive instead. That's alright. I used to have more trouble feeling I wasn't being as productive or as effective in art as I theoretically could be, but I've been trying to be nicer to myself as of late. Sometimes you just wanna game over doing art.

In this way, I've much more into photography than before. I got a new camera for it, and I carry it around with me every day all around my university. Every time I see something beautiful, I have to stop and take a photo. Apologies to my friends, who also have to stop and wait for me to finish taking a picture while we walk around campus. I've posted all the photos I've taken below.

I've taken a few more photos as well, but it seems like there's a maximum of 30 photos per post. Oops. Looks like I'll be putting the rest into part 3. I guess if anybody is reading all of this in one go, I'll see you there.

Thanks for reading.

Luna

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