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[lilykane]

....I can't draw. Nothing's coming out right. Everything's ugly(er).

Heh, it finally happened. I finally lost the one thing that was keeping me sane.

Discuss.

Comments

[xavipants]

Mind you, I know nothing about your life, so huge grain of salt incoming:

Change everything, leave, start from scratch in every respect, including art.

Sometimes you need to leave in order to come back.

[salavin]

Hey guess what, same here, Lets all go an some messed up artblock angry artist parade <3

[eibii]

If you can see your pieces aren't working for you, then your artistic taste is still in there somewhere. Don't lose hope yet. Healing is a rough time, be gentle to yourself.

I wouldn't say 'leave', but I'm a stubborn one that way - if you can develop a little hobby or two on the side to zen out with (cross-stitch? crochet? poi? baking?), and give yourself time to breathe, it might offer enough of an outlet to return with less of a dependency on success vs. failure.

Ugh. That looks less helpful and more daft outside my head, but the bottom line is, remember that you haven't lost your eye, and blocks always erode.

[eibii]

Or I could just point and say, "What this guy suggests," but everyone's got different mileage, and I'm not sure whether you've seen it already or not. But, for whatever it's worth, there it is.

[kuni_bob]

Just to bound off of eibii's idea, it's even possible that your artistic eye has just had another growth spurt that has outgrown your hand's speed at keeping up. Happens to all of us at one point. Given that there has been a lot of MAJOR stress and such, it could be a case of overthinking-because-the-artistic-eye-has-levelled-up-and-the-hand-is-still-a-few-exp-short.

Whatever's going on, though, best wishes and warm thoughts. This is an incredibly difficult time for you and I really wish I could be there to support you. :(

[stefaneus]

...and I was totally gathering the money and courage to try to commission you in the future. :/

Hey, I don't know you that well, only from what you write here and on DA, but I hope it's not that bad. This sounds like a case of burnout - in most cases helps removing sources of stress from your life, like changing work, friends... and try to loosen up for a while.

And even if it is something worse (like, eh, me: I was writing since I was little, but after I got back home from war, I haven't been able to write a good chapter, much less get published, as I wanted to before), remember, the world isn't ending. You can always get better.

Good luck.

[baconneggs]

you can try doing some abstract stuff.
Oddly I like doing mechanical/architectural drawing to relax, like 2 or 3 point perpectives, guess it keeps my logic side o the brain busy for awhile