My artistic endeavours dump thread (◕‿‿◕｡)

[Goatscoat]

Hello! I have pursued drawing and music for a long time (I did completely lose the ability to draw for 7 to 8 years until around mid-2015, when I stopped taking anti-psychotics by my own will, and ended up proving to my parents that they really must have been forcing the diagnosis on me, because I never had schizophrenia, I've now been pre-diagnosed ~so to say~ by a doctor I went to on my own will which works on the best Hospital in Portugal).

Nevertheless, during the time I took anti-psychotic medication I did produce a full length album and two or three EPs. It was pretty alright, but music wasn't as fun as I'd expect it to be. It's very predictable. So predictable that I can't enjoy learning any instruments, seen as all there is to learning an instrument is muscle memory... Eh, I don't enjoy it. So I taught myself how to work with a DAW and composed electronic music + did singing for my tracks.

In this thread I'll dump all of those new wave drawings I've been doing + leave links to my bandcamp.

And I guess I'll start right here by beginning a record of my progress with digital painting (something which I've only started doing in October this year).

This was my first attempt:

And this was my second attempt:

I always enjoy critique and I'd love to hear all of your opinions!

 

[Goatscoat]

And in this post I'll drop the link to my bandcamp + soundcloud:


https://soundcloud.com/rarareruri

 

[AspiePie]

How do you get the lines so strait and what program did you use?

 

[Butterfly88]

Love the second one!

 

[Goatscoat]

How do you get the lines so strait and what program did you use?

The first drawing was hand-drawn with a tablet & the second drawing was hand-drawn and then I did the lineart with, literally, the lineart tool from SAI (which is the piece of software I used for drawing/painting both of these).

Some photos of the process I took with my cellphone (sorry for the quality but meah).

 

[Tom]

The drawings reminded me a little of pictures one saw in many homes in the 60's & 70's. Kind of impressionistic cutesy kids in costumes and with very big dark eyes. But yours have big eye lashes. I like your color experimentation.

What is that monster head? I love that!

Didn't try music yet. But I will

 

[Tom]

Umm... Impressive actually. I am not attached to that music genre, but I thought the lyrics and vocals quite good. Nice song titles also (so many mess that part up bad ).

 

[Goatscoat]

Thank you so much!

 

[Mr. Cat]

My ability and desire to draw was significantly lowered after taking anti-depressants. I never wanted to take those pills, but at the time I was a minor and was given no choice. I always wondered if meds did the same thing to other people. I can imagine anti-psychotics would be much, much worse.

I like your coloring technique, it's really pretty.

 

[ancusmitis]

Art was always difficult for me growing up. When I was a child in a satellite room, I sometimes doodled different things, and there were a few assignments that involved drawing, but we were yelled at if we did anything that wasn't specifically on the approved activities list, or if we did it wrong. I remember once we were supposed to design our own coat of arms. I drew a hat and pair of sunglasses and wrote the word "head gear on it." The teacher took me aside and told me I had done it wrong, said no one told me I was allowed to use words, and she said I "never wore" these things. She only ever saw me in school, where we were forbidden to wear them. I stopped drawing altogether for a few years. Then we had an art class in middle school, which I stopped going to because I could never match up to expectations.

Now that I'm older, I'm trying to get back into it, but I'm always a little bit nervous before starting and it kind of tires me out in an odd way that isn't physical or even exactly mental. But I feel so much better after doing it for a while.

 

[Goatscoat]

I wish you the best of luck with overcoming the trauma-esque feelings you are experiencing with drawing. Remember that your ability to draw is always going to improve every time you do it and don't lose hope.

 

[ancusmitis]

I wish you the best of luck with overcoming the trauma-esque feelings you are experiencing with drawing. Remember that your ability to draw is always going to improve every time you do it and don't lose hope.

I dunno if it's really trauma. There were other things that happened to me that were definitely traumatic. But I did get a lot of discouragement specific to doing art.