Blah! I say, BLAH! Just having a bit of a rough patch. For no discernible reason though. Chalk it up to life, aging relatives, fear of death, a hot summer indicating the impending end of life on earth… Whatever. I dunno. I spent a bunch of money I probably shouldn’t have last week. I spent it on books and art supplies though! That was one order anyway, Holbein watercolors! And a second set of Creative Mark Cezanne colored pencils. They are cheap, but the quality is decent. Sadly of course nothing beats Prismacolor, BUT I have picking up individual Prismacolors and I can keep buying them so supplement. My color pencil use is usually limited to my kraft paper sketchbook so it’s fine. Sometimes I add them to watercolors- I’m trying to NIT ink my watercolors- I don’t know WHY I’m so obsessed with line less watercolor. I have to accept that I am the artist I am. I am not an amazing Pinterest professional artist who make TikToks and people love and buy their art. The second order was books! Three of those books are fashion references for the 20s, 30s, and 40s though. So how could I say no? They are gorgous FYI! Pictures through and through :) They are so good!! I’m hoping t use it for cool fashion inspo in my art!
Anyway, here is some art for this week!
Yep- you guessed it- I did NOT ink it! I’m not sure I like this though. I sure wish I could sell art though, the art drawer is filling up… Anyway, maybe at this point there’s no point trying new things….LOL! That’s a terrible thing to say! But I mean, realistically, it’s a little late to try to be a god artist. It IS a hobby at this point. Like I’m not going to suddenly become a famous artist or something. I mean, I’m just mediocre. The end. That’s been my curse y entire life. I have worked so hard on various art skills (writing included) and all my efforst has resulted in just being mediocre. Not good enough to succeed at anything but goood enough that people who don’t understand the industry say shit like “You should sell these” or “You should get So-and-so for your agent” As if EITHER of those things are remotely in my control! As if I can just SELL art anywhere, as if I can just say to an agent “rep me!” and it will happen.
OK! Anyway- here is a drawing of my Gastrodon named Clover from the Pokemon game I am a player in. I am going to evolve Clover next session, they are a Shellos right now but I just got enough XP to get them to a Gastrodon. I regret NOT using gouache for this.
Sorry for the downward spiral… It hasn’t been a great week. The heat is just a huge reminder that the planet is on fire and everything is dying and I just been sad in general. See also: the opening paragraph.
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