drawing comms?

[ratcreature]

So, I always have this vague resolution that I should get back to daily drawing. I used to draw something almost every day once, not necessarily anything elaborate, sometimes just a doodle, but still -- then at some point that I don't even recall anymore I apparently turned into an inert sloth about that too (rather than just being a sloth with non

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[gnatkip]

I'd like to draw every day, too. The only way I'm going to improve is by practicing. I just... don't.

I saw multidraw come across my flist a while ago, but I don't know anything about it other than it's weekly. Then I googled, and found the Random Art Prompt Generator. "Capture a sense of accomplishment with primary colors. Theme: camera obscura."

Maybe someone else knows something; I'd be interested also.

[ratcreature]

I looked at multidraw, but it excludes original art, which isn't great for just practicing, also the prompts seem to kind of suck. I mean, the latest prompt is "Any and all book fandoms! Character portraits, canon scenes, whatever.", the ones before that "minor characters", and "television

[gnatkip]

"I get stuck with the half-finished stick figure that pointed out to me that I fail at drawing a foreshortenend hand for example"

Hahaha, that is so me.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, it's really kind of pathetic. I once counted how many pages I used to get one simple crouched figure vaguely right for a post where I rambled about the progress of a drawing, and then was too embarrassed to post the real number and faked it down by only counting those that made some kind of progress, and it was still pathetic. My last attempt where I'm stuck is a piece of Roy Harper fanart whom I wanted to draw curled up showing him when he was a junkie, and I have like a folder full of google image searches showing wrecked drug addicts, another still lacking folder of images showing the interior of abandoned houses where squatters might be, and so far at least six pages of me trying to draw someone curled up like he is in my mind, and it is all just made of fail. A single scene. That I first planned to draw like over two years ago. *headdesk^infinity*

[dirigibletrance]

Well, if you want, you can just have your f-list give you some drawing prompts directly. I am only an occasionaly doodler myself, so I don't really know of any drawing communities.

[ratcreature]

Well, I tried that open prompt thing a while ago, but there's two problems with that. First it results in a bunch of prompts at once combined with a commitment to people which creates more pressure than having some daily prompt in a practice community. Second, whenever you ask for drawing prompts what people really want you to draw is their favorite characters, which is understandable but not what I want for this, especially since much of my f-list is live action fandom, and I suck at drawing actors, so I get rather stressed whenever I offer open prompts like that.

[dirigibletrance]

Well, there's probably also books on drawing at the bookstore or library, that have drawing prompts in them.

Honestly, I dunno. Just try stuff until something works.

[ratcreature]

I have a shelf full of drawing books, some of them even have exercises. What I'm looking for is the right mix of peer pressure and support that works as motivation booster. If I was a diligent and dedicated aspiring artist, I'd probably just have that motivation or something to just do this on my own, but for me the last time I manage that was when I met weekly with a group of others at my university who also liked to draw for fun witout being art students, and we drew and practiced together. I'm looking for the online equivalent.

[girlwithoutfear]

Have you tried to do Illustration Friday prompts? It's any format/media you might like to use.

http://www.illustrationfriday.com/about_p.php

[ratcreature]

No, I didn't know about that site. Thanks for pointing it out, I'll have a look.