Blog 09 : Art Block?

Mars in the Sky

Never had an artist block since I can't draw. I do have writer's block every now and then whenever I'm writing articles. The thought of making your articles stand out among others while trying to make things coherent as well as not unintentionally plagiarizing other peoples' work sometimes pressure me to a point where I'd rather not look at my drafts and do some other work before getting back to writing. Though the motivation is barely there for me so it's kinda tough to get my fingers to type a single sentence sometimes. You definitely should never let the block affect you for too long or you'll start losing all the momentum.

Frank Leo

take your time

Fuya

I looked through all of them that I could find, but in the end, I'll just save and gather up ones that are popular or good. I don't mind and would define "bad looking one" though, but most of the times the non good looking ones tend to be just vanilla posing or extremely cliche scenes which I can just exclude them out of considering pile, or sometimes they will be those extreme fetishes that I won't reach any way. I think my reason to draw each fanart is that I want them to at least look decent and by seeing it people recognize that I drew that piece. Like, when they think about the character and its fanarts, mine is gonna pop up in their head at some point in a good way, not just another piece among the sea.

AJ

You say you look through 'popular or good looking' arts, but what about less popular or bad looking art? I have seen plenty of art that is poorly drawn but clearly started from a great idea or concept. Do you only want to be unique amongst the popular art? Are you making art to get maximum attention to it, or for some other reason? I don't mean to imply anything bad about you as an artist, I love your work and we all create things for different reasons. I just thought it might help you to understand why you have this kind of block.

Densetsu Meru

I have an overall better appreciation of art/artists thanks to systems like Patreon, so it's interesting to see what people like yourself come up with. However the thing is since imagination is generally unlimited, there's always the chance you get the coincidental 'same idea/concept', but if that's the case that you are comparing yourself to others and saying that you want to be different instead, that's a bit inflexible. Maybe instead of going 'oh shit someone's done it already' you could consider 'well maybe I can do it as well, but better' or something. I mean I don't draw (so having something nice to look at is always a plus), but you could say the same ideas are always generally cliché or trope - everyone uses them, but it depends on how you execute it at the end which should be what really matters.

I find it hard to decide a pose and scenario as "others might have done it a milisecond ago" .People say nothing is original yet new unthinkable ideas keep popping up.