Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Eel the good thing is you and your family are safe right now.

@Zuljaras I don't know if I'm too late but I loved your new art piece.

This is my desktop calendar 2023 that I made by myself.

Cover

January 2023

@Zuljaras I know what you mean. I've been trying to draw for months but I can't even make anything looks more than a kid's scribble. I could show you what I mean but I kinda don;t know how to add images here. Probably for the best.

But I did watch hundreds of yt tutorials and have 4 books already so I believe that there is hope for me yet!

@Kermit1 You are never too late for that and thank you kind sir!

@ComfyAko It is never too late to draw or to do ANY hobby! Also those tutorials are not always helpful! Just draw what you like the most! You can never go wrong with that

Why nobody even look at my artwork ? 😟
I was also working hard to design my own desktop calendar.

@ComfyAko
You need to practice how to draw the basic things first.
What thing you want to draw?
Also, you can check my artwork on my profile.
I posted my artwork on Deviantart.

@Kermit1
I have posted quite a lot my artwork on Deviantart.
Be sure you check it out.
https://www.deviantart.com/fascidevvion/gallery

@Anti-Matter I think your calendar looks super neat, I dig the colours.

Yeah, basics come first. Fundamentals of art are important. squares, circles and triangles, I drew hundreds (thousands?). Literally had pages upon pages filled with lines upon lines of shapes. Perspective too. It's just that I can't really see what I want to draw before I draw it, or I see it differently somehow and I can't create that illusion of 3d'ness. Shading is something I DREAD. Also opened Ikea catalogue and drew furniture out of reference. Not to mention dozens of still frames from anime or manga. It's just that there is always something lacking, I can't put my finger on it.

@Zuljaras Yeah, that sounds about it. I think there is much fun in drawing if you don't compare yourself to the artists online. Wish I could stop, but there is so much art everywhere.

@ComfyAko Just remember to let your art speak for itself. As you can see some people like to beg for attention for their art creations

And I watch tutorials or just timelapses every day because it is amazing to see what skilled people can accomplish is couple of hours. It looks so easy but it hard as hell

And do not force yourself to draw if you are not in the mood. It will reflect on the drawing. I've done that many times and the results are terrible!

Question Do you draw traditionally (paper, canvas) or digitally?

@ComfyAko

Thanks. 😀
If you want to post your drawing here, upload to imgbb.com
After get uploaded, hold click the image to choose Open in new tab.
Then, on new tab, hold click again to choose Open in new tab again.
On new tab, copy the link of the image thencopy on here with format like this.
(img)link(/img)

Replace the ( ) with [ ]

@ComfyAko
Or maybe you can try to draw simple things first like draw Chibi characters with standing pose, simple animals like cat or fish, simple plants like flowers or trees.

@Anti-Matter Your art is fantastic!!! I really love the Eagle!!!

@ComfyAko I draw art with a computer mouse and it looks like this. I'm not great but for a mouse, it's pretty good.

@EllaTheKawaiiNeko @TeaCatherine @EaglyTheKawaiiShika I can draw anime!

@Kermit1
Thanks. 😀
Btw, if you want to draw better, you can try Corel Draw to create vector images.
Vector drawing is like you can manipulate the shape and the lines as your desire.
You can weld, trim, intersect the shapes, you can add the lines and adjust the line thickness, you can make duplicated shapes quickly, you can give color of the shapes quickly, etc.
I have learnt about making vector image by Corel Draw when I took quick private course in year 2005 by 1 month trial and I able to create my vector drawings since I made desktop calendar 2006.

@Anti-Matter I'll check that out. Sounds cool.

@Zuljaras @Kermit1 thankfully my local family lives in a fairly safe part of town, so even though we’re hearing a few horror stories about what’s going on, nothing has really happened here.

Narcos usually let tourists and civilians be. But right now they seem to be in full on rage mode over the capture of one of their leaders.

@Eel stay safe bro! The closest thing I've got to "gangs" is wannabe gangsta weed-selling teens, they're pretty harmless all things considered.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika tbh I don't think I wanna vote when the time comes.

HA BEAT THIS!!!

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika ya it's legal but you need to be a certain age so they sell it to under-18 teens, they also sell illegal drugs from their parents, it's a kinda messed up situation.

Once my imaginary friend busted them in a bathroom and 1 day or so later we had a broken window, thankfully it was like triple-pained glass. They've never done anything else after that.

Life Lesson - don't be a Snoop Dogg wannabe

edit I had to change who was in the bathroom for personal reasons/maybe legal reasons.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika they smoke in the school bathrooms and you can smell it in the halls. Also, they're pretty loud.

Eh, life choices. I'll be over here in my Lexus telling myself I'm the center of the world.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Pointless Needle Drop