Library In Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Library in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

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Get them seen, give them encouragement, help give artists a creative drive and keep them aspiring to improve

Here’s the version of Magia I’ve made with Mixcraft 5 on July, 2014

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Original Track: “Magia” From: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Song by: Kalafina

We all reach that moment with our artwork where we get stuck and it’s difficult to keep on going because we focus so much on the errors that we detected in our final piece or during the progress.

That is common, we’ve all done it and so have I, but that’s not a sign for you to stop drawing and give up that you’ll always be at that level that you are. I should let you know that the styles I used to draw heavily from were Arina Tanemura (Full Moon Manga), Testuya Numora (Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts), Kishimoto (Naruto), and the past four-year Trigger (Kill la Kill). It’s at those moments you should old take time to step back and look back on the artwork that has pushed you this whole time. Try something different, do follow a tutorial and draw your characters on a different pose or with another expression.

I’m glad however you’re asking for criticism for your work despite how you’re feeling.

My best advice is needing to go back to the basics with tutorials, it’s helped me so much the past 4 years when I started to pay attention more to body proportions and poses, currently, I’m studying colors. I’ll be honest with you the only art class I’ve taken was an art history class in college about 4 years ago! There are a lot of tutorials without the need to use skill share or Patreon, a lot of good illustrators share their work in YouTube and I recommend for you to take time to search what you need to help you.

Even though I’ve used watercolors since middle school I’m still learning new techniques, testing our papers and watercolor brands because I still want to get better. It’s not bad to try out a different media too, for a long while I would also just paper sketch characters, scan then color them digitally without adding line art. There’s was never that “only one thing” that I’d do for my art and that’s helped a lot bit to feel stuck.

You’re doing great, but if you’re feeling this stuck then take the time to look back at what’s motivated you and don’t be afraid of the basics.

You can do it!!

i-junketsu

.: I… I never expected this. This is really nice to wake up to and I’m glad I’m not alone with that awful mentality. Thank you so much for this @i-junketsu and yeah… I’ll continue doing my best. You keep up the great work too. :.

*goes to bed for five years*