darkSpyro

so im very much not surprised that im artistically burnt out right now. the solution is to just wait and keep gently practicing when time allows it. im not particularly worried. past week or so has been better.

the thing i noticed rn is that i mostly only want to draw when im hanging out or talking to friends. does this or anything similar happen to fellow artists on here? i've always been the type of person who likes background sound when im drawing or working on things but right now at least a video or music doesnt always cut it

Yeah, though instead of hanging out it's sleeping, working or traveling

yeah thats understandable! burn out it weird

I feel like the time when I really got burnt out was after I went to art school just over 5 years ago, and since then I've just been getting by on smoldering embers, really.

And by contrast, drawing has just about always been something that I do by myself. I guess it might help to actually have friends to draw with. I did get invited to a Drawpile session a while ago, but I didn't know anyone else there besides the guy who invited me, and I just remembering noticing how slow and ineffective my drawing process was compared to the others (something I'd also experienced at art school) so I was like "yea, I'd rather just go solo from here".

Yeah understandable. Art school is a real killer. Shouldn’t be that way