~Skianous

I've been struggling a lot with art lately, as you can tell from the lack of personal pieces in my recent uploads. I'm no stranger to art blocks; they come and go, but the one I've been dealing with those past few months is definitely one of the nastiest I've had.

It's clearly not due to a lack of ideas; quite the opposite really, I have *tons* of ideas but neither the time nor motivation (and, in some cases, the raw skills) to illustrate them all. And while I already do have several WIPs in the works, I just haven't been able to work on them properly, nor on any other pic for that matter. I feel anxious just turning my tablet on, and when I start drawing, it usually takes no longer than a few minutes for me to give up as soon as I struggle with something or if what I'm doing doesn't look "good enough".

So a few days ago, I thought to myself "fuck it, if I can't do anything decent on tablet, maybe I could try sketching something on paper for a change".

And... It worked.

I don't know why exactly, but while I've been struggling like Hell to draw on tablet for weeks, as soon as I started sketching on paper, I got right back into it and completed a full pic in one sitting, without getting frustrated nor giving up at the first hint of difficulty. I've been practicing every day since then, and even completed a few sketch pics that I'm planning to upload as an art dump soon.

So yeah... I've decided to ditch the tablet and go back to traditional art, for now at least. I just bought a new set of inking pens to replace my old ones, and hopefully I'll get to make good use of them in the coming days.