Finding myself after 20+ years of drawing... (Patreon)

Heya guys, it's been a while since the last blog post.I know I promised a while back that I would do this more often, but things got in the way.

Lately, I have been getting constant art blocks, mainly midway through rendering my arts (for non-artists, the rendering step is where you polish your rough-coloring into finished result)

and the more I render, the heavier the art blocks. I just felt strongly unmotivated to render a piece and my arts have been getting slower and slower every time. A piece that's supposed to take 8 hours became 12. A piece that's supposed to take 12 became 20, and so on.

I don't know if it's perfectionism or how unsatisfied with myself on art I have become, and while I used to be able to brute force it with guts, my age and physical abilities have started to feel like a real issue. Some simple pieces that took me full 5 days of working to complete have rendered (heh) me so tiring, with a salt on top that the end result didn't look as good as I expected.

As a way to fix it, I think I will try my best to render less for the next few batches. I will try to force myself to go back to simple and minimal shading and search for a style I feel comfortable with and have fun doing again, after roughly 20 years of doing this professionally.

Please bear with me.

If this goes well and it takes less time to finish a piece, I may be able to add an extra piece to each batch, too.

Hope you guys are doing alright. It's the Songkran festival in Thailand here aka our New Year in April. Look up the water fight videos on Youtube if you've never heard of it before. I don't go out and do that anymore but it's fun to see!

Cheers!