>>5796144>>5799376Okay okay I’ll bite.
It’s a few things. First, congratulations. You’ve hitting /int/ problems where you’re having doubts about your abilities. The landscape is too vast, too many styles and variations. The way paint looks on a canvas is so unique to so many artists there’s no way to make sense of it.
It’s time to dial back. All the way back to when you were young and fresh. You’ll have to recall the original reasons behind why you started drawing. Was your head full of ideas? Did comic book figures jump off the page? Did you like the simple thought of drawing things?
It’s likely that your reasons for drawing evolved. You’ve matured, and the kid that you were was more of a guidepost than the final destination. This is a good thing, it means you have artistically developed deeper than you originally anticipated.
You’ll need this because the only way out of this rut is to remove the anxiety from you. The kid didn’t have this anxiety, now isn’t the time to develop it, either.
The fundies will always be there. You’ll always go back to the basic qualities of line and form and value and color and expression and composition. It is okay to look and take from artists at this point. To effectively steal the bits and pieces of what they do. All great masters had teachers they absorbed knowledge and talent from. You’re at a stage where you should do the same.
As the other anon mentioned, do give yourself a project you’d like to do, and tackle it one problem at a time. It won’t be fun at first. You’ll have to deal with planning more than execution. But the end results will be worth the struggle.
