shit's wack yo

shit's wack yo

shit's wack yo

So in the interest of cutting down art time I decided I'd fuck about with traditional stuff ie pens and am so much faster this way it's insane. I been spending like 12 hours on one drawing with digital and now I can do this stuff in less than an hour.

(Apologies for the weird blown out colouring, my scanner is weird like that)

I feel like a fool. This doesn't mean I'll stop doing digital but I am gonna try practising traditional more, since while I like these I think my lack of practise shows. Maybe I'll get some more materials for it. I jokingly said somewhere that I was quitting to go and do watercolours but I may just end up doing exactly that, minus the quitting part.

Yes. As I said in my last news post it was extremely likely that this break (or rather, deceleration) was going to happen, and I am now informing you that it has. This post is mainly as a way of reaffirming it to myself but I'm also attaching a couple of explanations since I think they would be helpful to anyone who might find this decision strange.

-Why do I need this break/deceleration?

To start off I would like to make it clear that this is not because I'm burnt out. In fact, I am so far from that that my being this way is itself sort of the issue. Basically, I've been spending too much time on art, to the point where I feel like I've forgotten how to invest my time in other things. Being as I have many hobbies and interests outside of art and, more importantly, am in university for something generally entirely unrelated to art (in the sense of drawing at least), I don't like that recently I've let art sort of eclipse the rest of my identity.

-What other interests?

Several, but for the big ones there's literature (both reading and writing) and music (both listening and making the stuff.) Going to uni for electrical engineering. Most of these things are incompatible with drawing, at least at the same time.

-Right then. Well, if I've been spending so much time on art, where is it?

Well, some of it (quite a bit of it in fact) is in this forum thread, and some of it has been the type of stuff I only share in what I would describe as intimate environments so it hasn't gotten shared here. The reason that the stuff hasn't left that forum thread is that I haven't viewed any of the images therein as, as it were, worthy of their own art submission.

-OK, but surely if those drawings are "quite a bit" of what I'm doing I can't be spending that much time on them, right?

You would think, but I draw with a mouse. Part of the reason that I currently don't have any plans to make a living off of art is that I draw with a mouse. It's slow, and I shouldn't do it, but I do, and I really do need to find the opportunity to learn how to draw digitally with...not a mouse, but as of now that's how I be and there's nothing doing.

-Will this mean I stop posting art?

Nah. What I mean by deceleration is considerably limiting the amount of time per day I spend on drawing to hopefully make use of it for other stuff. In fact, I will be posting some art a couple of days from now, hopefully, though that one is mainly a compilation of things I did before starting this.

-Who are you anyway?

I dunno man. Who are you? Who can truly say who they are in these tumultuous times?

-When will this end?

Almost definitely by the time my exams finish, and it's unlikely I stop before then. If something happens that makes me keep this going after the fact I'll try and make another post explaining what's up.

In the meantime here's something from a project I've been off and on about since I know people like to see pictures to keep them entertained:

Or at least a considerable art deceleration. I know that probably seems rather rich coming from me, since my art uploads are like twice a month at most nowadays, but I'm just putting this out there in case someone just notices a sudden complete cease of activity on my end and is interested enough to be concerned. I'll probably write a lengthier and more in-depth news post whenever I get to actually doing it but this is just a heads up so it's not too sudden if and when I do get around to it.

Just know that "might" really means "almost definitely" and "soon" means "really soon" as in "I have a maximum of two drawings left to do before this takes effect" level of soon.

I believe this is the first time I've been frontpaged without the submission either being a collab where I was only a very small part, or the submission being related to a Newgrounds event like pixel day or the like, which is obviously cool but I need answers for why something from nearly two weeks ago entitled "I hate this drawing" suddenly got that status >:(

hey i finished all the patterns on this bike right here the rest of the drawing shouldn't take so long probably

That's it, my dudes, that's all I wanted to say. I did legit want to make something for Pico Day but I forgot when it was and was reminded that it was today only yesterday. But this isn't like an excuse post for all the assuredly rabid fans out there asking where the hell my Pico Day submission is, because they don't exist.

Anyway, to reiterate, happy Pico Day. Hope everyone's day has been made a little better in these trying times.

The title explains everything essentially. What with a limited data plan and being stuck indoors using the internet, and probably busting it up over the course of several uni-related Discord voice calls, my internet is now at a limping pace and won't recover until the 8th of this month. If over the next few days I don't post any art, that won't be much different to the norm, but also now I have extra justification.

In the meantime, though, I will be trying to update this forum thread here on Newgrounds every day with images that are hopefully less taxing to upload. I managed to upload an image today so fingers crossed my connection doesn't get any slower.