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Art Advice: How to Have a Positive Outlook

Welcome to the next Art Advice Article in the series! This time, we'll talk about tactics you can use to not feel discouraged when things don't turn out the way you want.

🌳It Happens to Everyone

If it gives you some consolation, know the fact that everyone screws up sometimes, even professionals. People just tend to not show their screw-ups, so it's easy to make the false assumption that everything they do is wonderful and they never mess up. Just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen. Mistakes and work the artist doesn't like happen to everyone at all levels. It's completely normal!

🌳Changing Your Outlook about Mistakes

When we draw something that doesn't come out how we intended it, keeping these two things in mind will help you move forward. We'll introduce the ideas first and then expand on them below.

Mistakes are necessary for progress. Every time something doesn't come out "right," we get one step closer to getting to the point where it does come out just the way we want it (perhaps even better!). We just need to keep trying and not give up.

You can use humor to not let it get you down. Laugh at your own mistakes. You don't have to show them to others if you don't want to, but YOU can laugh at your own screw-ups. It will help you not feel bad about them.

🌱Expanding on #1: Mistakes are Necessary for Progress

Whenever something doesn't come out right, you will (should) work on fixing it, if not in that drawing, then in the next one(s). These are the stepping stones necessary for perfecting your craft. Think of it like defeating baddies in a video game: you can't level up without overcoming those obstacles.

I know people say it so much that it's almost become a cliche, but it's true: practicing is necessary to get to where you want to be. Art is like a sport: you're not going to become a goal-scoring machine without having first spent time standing in front of the goal shooting balls at it during training, and then doing it while moving and with other players in the way (add obstacles/change scenarios). When I used to go to conventions, I would see people sitting on the floor or wherever with their sketchbooks, drawing all the time; then the people in the artists' alley were always drawing while at their table.

🌱Expanding on #2: Using Humor

This is easier explained with a story, so I'll tell you of a time I wanted to learn how to draw panthers. I'd never drawn one before, so I drew a few.

One looked like Bart the bear, that big brown (Kodiak) bear that you used to get in all the movies.

So I LOLed at it and took a look at my bear cosplaying as a wannabe-panther and tried to figure out why it looked like a bear instead of a panther - aha! the lower jaw was too long. I made it shorter. Also, the eye was too round.

(Note: At the time, I didn't know I was going to use this for an article, so I didn't scan it before corrections; I've drawn over the scan to show what it originally looked like.)

I drew another, but it looked like a cute shiba-inu instead. I drew a bow on it and some blush; had another laugh. I looked at my shiba-inu cosplaying a hello-kitty panther and tried to find out what made it look like a shiba-inu instead of a panther. The jaw was STILL too long.

I left my shiba-inu/hello-kitty because it was funny and drew another one, this time with an even shorter lower jaw. Still not right. Made the lower jaw thicker from gum to chin.

Repeat, repeat, repeat drawing more panthers until I got one I liked. Then I drew it again. Then I drew it from another angle to make sure I'd gotten the hang of it.

🌳Closing

So, when you have something you don't like:

Remember that this happens to everyone.

Mistakes make progress.

Don't be harsh on yourself, laugh at it instead.

Look closely to see exactly what about it seems "off," then you can work on those bits.

Once you get it right, try again a couple more times to cement the knowledge.

Last, but very important: don't drown in your mistakes, always stop and appreciate what you did RIGHT! There is plenty of good stuff, but, in general, we, as humans, tend to overlook it and focus on the negative things. Don't. While it's important to learn from our mistakes, it's also important to recognize our successes so we can build on them. Do not neglect your strengths!

And remember to enjoy the process of what you're doing! 💖

Happy arting! ~B~

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groovyace · 29 days

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you are so swaggy and your art is amazing.

who's your favorite to draw?

AHHHHH thank you anon :> I have never been called swaggy before lmao i love it 🕺🏼

As for the question: it really does depend on the day. I mean, I've definitely drawn Tim the most on my blog because I love to put that little guy in situations. I also really love his suit/colour palette.

Right now I've been rlly enjoying drawing Jason, though, both out of general obsession and cus his shapes are awesome. I love drawing Bart's hair and his big shoes. And ofc I love to draw Crowley cus his shapes are soooo satisfying and hes David Tennant so what's not to love?

But yeah I would say Jason right now but.. Tim has been a more consistent presence lol. Depends on the day!!

#asks #thank u for the ask!!#got a Q? send it in #had to think so hard about this answer only for it to end up being a nonanswer LMAO #i love them all 😭😭😭

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neganmct · 2 years

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Nice ol' vent and no I don't expect you to read it or leave a message; no pressure. Or drink your tea but I'll probably piss in it.

I've had a lot of fucking stuff happen lately and its randomly built the fuck up as time has gone on. I'm probably gonna start enabling voice so I'm not smashing the shit out of my keyboard. That's embarrassing.

So I've a pretty ugly past and I'm trying my best to do good. I used to scare people pretty badly and I'm trying very hard to be more welcoming and more friendly but I'm still struggling to do that because of reasons. It's kinda throwing on at the minute, ya' know? Being told I'm scary.

I recently fell out with a friend who I had a soft spot for. Nothing massive, nothing huge and we spoke quite a bit. I found out through a few others they had been sharing stuff and saying things. It hurt and they had a few screenshots to prove it. It sucked. I had to fight down the urge about calling them. They also went too far with my friend's name. I didn't realise till after that making fun of her name was sorta racist. I was being soft. I had a dream about them too; it was an oddly comforting dream and in my half awake daze I tried to message them before remembering. "Oh yeah, they did this". Miss them, it's dumb but I do.

I've had eating problems for a long time now and I've come close over the past few weeks to just not eating because I need some sort of control and I don't know why. I'm so used to doing the dark shit that I partly want to drop back into the hole I'm trying to dig my way out of.

I was encouraged by some health professionals to interact with my interests, look at the communities. It was actually great at first. I have made some new friends. One friend is an amazing artist, I love it when he draws. He's drawn me before, he's drawn a very special friend of mine, he's done drawing requests. He's just lovely, he's a little brother figure. I made some other friends too shortly after I learned some hype about Stranger Things.

I've not watched all of Stranger Things! I've only watched Season Four because I relate to a character. Obviously Eddie Munson. I was that alt kid in school. I was a scene kid briefly. That was a weird couple of years. Mostly I was just a metal head, still am a metal head. I got beat up, I got stalked, I got harassed, I got threatened. I got falsely accused of things because I was different. I had a character to heavily relate to.

A nerd with the hair. I like how much his appearance reminds me of Eddie Van Halen. That is just lovely. However interacting with a good chunk of the people who also like him is not that great. But now with some of the online stuff I feel like I'm back in school. I was having a really shit day and I was going along with the crowd because I was actually laughing. Imagine my shock to learn I had been snubbed while others had not. They were pissing on me without the courtesy of even calling it rain. No one said a damn thing. I had to find out through someone else who wasn't even involved.

Interacting with a community hasn't really done shit for me right now.

I don't know what I want to do at this point. I feel like I'm stuck. I had projects I was so excited to do and things to see and now I just don't know. The hype I had building and building just abruptly vanished within a few weeks. Now I'm just frustrated, angry.

Life is never going to be completely perfect I know but I feel like I've been spat on and the "I'm sorry" was Bart Simpson saying "I'm soggy".

You know I had something weird happen to me earlier. I was just looking through some content. I've always done out of pure boredom was search, type, watch etc. I was watching a few clips of Eddie Van Halen interact with his child back in the early nineties and I was just. "Aw, that's cute" and I started imagining myself with a family. I hate children. I really fucking hate them so this was extremely out of character for me.

I kept scrolling until eventually I wasn't. I was just sat there and I don't know how much time had past but I was somewhere else. I was day dreaming so fucking intently I could smell, touch and hear as if it were real. I was talking to someone as if they were real. I was walking somewhere and just had a strange sense of freedom I hadn't felt since I was running from a teacher after I was caught with a pack of fags in school. It was amazing. I was broken out of the day dreaming by one of my dogs barking.

I don't know what to do from here. I don't know if I want to continue trying to be a decent person because apparently no matter how hard you try that doesn't happen. Someone is always gonna be scared of me and some people are always gonna have some sort of conflict with me. Its life but it shouldn't be so harsh. I'm scared of people.

If anyone needs me I'll be pretending I'm somewhere else until I can come up with some sort of decision.

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oslo-snowball · 4 months

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post #2 - yesterday i woke up sucking a lemon [1/2/24]

hello, not much to write about today -- spent today largely in the company of others, without much time allotted for the mind space of focused work. i'm getting a little bit anxious about the time running out but i still think today was good. i find myself returning to the idea of setting aside dedicated weekly time for artistic exploration/enrichment that i read about a few months ago in the first few pages of The Artist's Way, which i later threw out for reasons unrelated to the book's integrity/validity (although i instinctively doubted that as well). not sure why my gut felt so distrustful of that book, but it's probably because i first heard about it on TikTok and something felt quite gimmicky/commercial/disingenuous about it upon actually cracking upon the pages. but i am quite open to giving it another chance later on.

went to berkeley for a little day trip with my friend who just returned from her hometown. we went to a little crystal/occult shop that i'd been to once before and enjoyed, and then to the Guitar Center in emeryville. i got some various trinkets and gifts for my family, and a couple music books; she finally got a dj kit, which we'd been talking about for ages, and i'm very excited for her. we also found ourselves lost under a random overpass, getting pulled over by the cops for an illegal turn (immediately following me exclaiming "right next to the police station, too"), getting called by an ex, and driving through solidly "dreadful" (as my friend put it) weather: rainy, cold, and dark, complete with a flock of tritely ominous birds. overall, a very strange and liminal vibe. i instinctively enjoy experiences like that, though. makes me feel very aware of the unpredictability of everything. comforting, in a way, because it means that anything can happen. you never know what the universe will bring you next (although that's a very cliché/uninteresting way of putting it -- i think there's definitely more complexity there that i'm not interested in attempting to develop further right now). i think i've always been drawn to fear in some way, for that reason...

not much in the way of work, except that i finished the radiohead book yesterday and made some good progress on the czikszentmihalyi book today (will likely finish it tomorrow), and also learned the piano parts for EIIRP (hence today's choice of song) and pyramid song, and the beginning of Lake Shore Drive/Coming Back. have been compulsively playing EIIRP and pyramid song since learning the parts last night, and played around a bit with garageband on my ipad last night. still in an exploratory phase. waiting for my midi controller to come in on friday... i know i will need to just face things and start at some point. constantly caught between the tension of allowing for creative percolation/a productive patience with myself after the literal years of stagnancy and the very real challenges i faced (which took me a long time to even acknowledge), vs. the knowledge that there will never be a perfect time and things will always feel hard at points. very much attempting to maintain that dialectic and navigate it in a way that productively and intelligently balances logic, emotion, intuition, etc....

i always enjoy the BART ride as optimal reading/thinking time. so much so that i ended up immersed in my book and doing an accidental loop that cost me an hour and $17 in a last-minute necessary uber trip the last time i went to berkeley. ordered another book on the BART ride back that should be coming tomorrow -- leslie jamison, whose work i've enjoyed since randomly coming across her essay, Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain, sometime in the second half of high school. this essay resonated so much with my little angsty teenage self that i incorporated it into a capstone piece i really enjoyed working on for my senior year english class. i'm not sure how i discovered leslie’s work -- maybe through her aunt, Kay Jamison, who i became aware of around 10th grade. i know i already have much more reading material to get through, but i can't seem to help myself from compulsively buying more and more. in any case, i do think i'll actually finish the works that i care most about this time (as i have been doing), which is a very very comforting respite from the years of not even being able to read, let alone write. i have been focusing on leaning into doing what feels good, thinking about what i truly want to read and what i enjoy reading and just allowing myself to pursue that feeling. it also helps that i finally stopped deluding myself that i could read ebooks. nope. i am a massive lover of physical books, which seem to be the only medium through which i can actually *finish* a book, and now that i'm no longer in denial about that, reading's been an absolute joy.

i also feel some anxiety over the implications of reading while not really writing (another iteration of the consuming vs. creating problem that's been nagging me), but felt some comfort/reassurance in Czikszentmihalyi's remark that all the writers he interviewed were also compulsive readers/that reading was an essential component of the writing process. i know that intuitively and logically but i still worry that i'm not doing enough. maybe this is all just an exercise in getting out of my head. banishing the worry. idk. i am getting self-indulgent again. i don't really have much to say today. still wanted to get something onto the (virtual) page. there's also definitely more i could've said about today's choice of song, as i have a long history with this song, and the lyrics of today's title are also somewhat topical, but to write all that out doesn't feel quite right at the moment.

i may continue reading, i may continue working on the course i started/exploring with the tools i've been working on, i may just go to sleep and call it an early night, i may do some random internet wandering. i have been extremely tired to the point where i texted two friends that "i think i have narcolepsy" (only somewhat facetiously) and fell asleep on BART. i suppose that means that i should take care of myself and go to sleep earlier, but willfulness has always been one of my character flaws. welp.

thinking vaguely about love, generosity, dependability, and the best ways to show up for those you care about.

bye for now.

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ty-talks-comics · 5 years

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Best of this Week: Week of April 3rd, 2019

Best of this Week: Young Justice #4 - Brian Michael Bendis, Patrick Gleason, Josh Timms, Alejandro Sanchez, Alex Sinclair and Wes Abbott

What a great way to reintroduce a character!

To me, Amethyst is one of those characters that has always been lost in the shuffle of things. From her 1980s maxi-series, to her sixteen issue run, and her reemergence around Infinite Crisis in 2005 and even another series after the New 52 began. She’s never been around long enough to establish a strong presence in the mind, but after this issue, I want to see more of her in the future!

With an explosive beginning in the form of a flashback, awesomely drawn by Josh Timms, Amethyst is established as a capable fighter and protector of the House of Turquoise, one of the Seven Houses of Gemworld. She prevents her Queen/Mother from being kidnapped and her characterization is established immediately as being a protective, yet brash girl who is willing to end the problem of Dark Lord Opal “permanently”, but is continuously passed over by the Council of Gemworld who may or may not have struck deals with the dark lord to not be attacked if he decides to siege the rest of Gemworld.

Throughout the issue we’re also treated to Amethyst conversing with the others trapped underground. I think what makes her so endearing here is that there’s a subtle sense that she doesn’t really feel like she belongs on Gemworld, if not only because the council members suggest sending her back to Earth when they believe she’s left the council chambers and even later when her mother suggests the same. I feel as though she’ll grow into claiming both worlds as her own as the series progresses, giving her an awesome sense of self fighting for both Earth and Gemworld.

In the present, Conner and Bart get reacquainted while Conner is being detained by Dark Opal guards who threaten his family. Bart annoys them with his constant talking and Conner muses about missing the little guy and then PUNCHES the armor off of one of the guards as a show of force, causing the others to flee. Gleason does an amazing job of showing us that Conner’s still got it as his muscles ripple beneath his bodysuit and the armor shatters into thousands of pieces all under a wonderful evening sky.

The original opening line to this was going to be “Young Justice is (mostly) back,” because of the following pages show Conner and Bart reuniting with Cassie and Tim Drake “Robin”, as well as finally showing us Teen Lantern alongside Jenny Hex and Amethyst, but the team doesn’t do anything but embrace in a hug before we cut to another flashback, taking us to when Amethyst met Robin back in issue #1.

Most of my enjoyment of this issue comes from the hope that Amethyst will be a great contributing member to the Young Justice team, much like Crush on the Teen Titans. She’s got great spirit and a cool enough look to last a while and she made an impression, especially after three issues with very similar storytelling and not much action. Another contributing factor was the heartwarming embrace from the original team and it’s just nice to see most of my favorite characters seeing each other again, barring Bart. Patrick Gleason has such an innocent and strong art style that plays well with the story being told here with everyone having hopeful expressions by the end. Timms flashback art, also compliments this, making Amethyst seem more childlike and naive to the future consequences of her actions.

It took some doing, but I think I’m highly anticipating the next issue of the series.

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Everyone wants to live in a perfect world.

Runner Up: Justice League #21 - Scott Snyder, Jorge Jimenez, Alejandro Sánchez, Tom Napolitano

A place where there is no war, suffering or violence. A land of peace, light and prosperity… but even peace comes at a high price.

The book begins with Superman fighting his future self after Futureman told him his plan and how he would not make it to his friends on Perfect Earth with his powers failing due to lack of sunlight. Jorge Jimenez captures how much stronger Future Superman is by having him take down Clark with what best can be described as a single handed, wristlock take down that looks like Future Superman learned a thing or two from watching the first Part of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Not only that, but his glaring white costume, colored by Alejandro Sánchez, makes him look almost god-like in comparison to current Superman. After handedly taking down Superman, Future Superman tells him that he can stay alive by eating from the garden on the other side of the rock he's on and that he will never escape.

At the same time, Batman is having tea with “Batman” Dick Grayson in a pristine and bright Gotham. Things are already unsettling. Batman is smiling, drinking tea out of happiness in a bright Gotham and that's a red flag if I've ever seen one. He's pulled away to have a meeting of the minds with the rest of the League barring Superman and the truth of the world is revealed when Hawkgirl and J'onn J'onzz ask their future “son” to tell the group what's up.

Future Superman arrives in the mindscape and reveals himself to be one of Perpetua's sons, brother to the Monitor and Anti-Monitor, The World Forger. His design is awesome with deep blue skin, a harness-like top resembling J'onn's X with his cape along with beads that make him look like a shaman and a GIANT curved hammer. He looks like a badass!

He tells the heroes how this world will come to be, with a war spilling out of sides being chosen over hope or doom. The League will preemptively attack anyone on the side of doom, they will lose their way, but it will lead to this prosperity.

Of course almost everyone is against this, causing the World Forger to become furious that they would throw everything away and risk not trapping Perpetua again for some awful sense of Justice. I loved this aspect of the book that even in the face of another being FAR above their level, everyone, aside from Batman, is willing to have hope and fight for a better path. At the same time, I love that Batman sees the Gotham he's been fighting for and would rather have it perfect than keep fighting all of the ever increasing threats.

This was a great issue and deepened the lore behind Perpetua and another one of her kids. Jorge Jimenez always does his best on art and really makes the future world look like a Utopia and plays up the desolate nature of the space that Superman is trapped in. Everything combined together makes for another fantastic book by Scott Snyder and I'm eagerly anticipating the next issue!

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