>>5937459>>5937461OP here
I am working on fanart, yes. That's how you get eyes on your work, for starters, but I'm also genuinely interested in doing fanart. I am working on my own original story, I'll be doing loads of art for it, but it's not nearly fleshed out enough yet, I don't even have character designs figured out.
But anyway, I think my problem is I get stuck in the preliminary stage. When I try to do my thumbnail sketches from imagination, I seriously struggle to get the figure down, make them pose believably, or the composition right. I'll draw like the head and torso as simple shapes, maybe an arm, than get stuck, think the whole idea is shit, then throw it away. It's like I lack confidence, or the patience to flesh out my thumbnails better. I don't know what. But I know that I always get stumped in the thumbnail stage and rarely move past it.
Meanwhile, I see artists put out loads of art on a frequent basis. Some of them are bad, yes. I can tell some artists really don't out much if any thought on composition, or pose. But at least their putting out art, even if it's shit. I should be putting out SOMETHING after all this time. But I just keep getting frustrated with my thumbnails and I don't know if I just need to spend more time fleshing them out, maybe use references, or if I just need more confidence and to just pick something and wing it.
