Do you guys have those days when your drawings just seem to suck?

[realSean_Murphy]

I'm having one of those days. It's like nothing seems to look right. It's frustrating because I feel like crumbling it up and throwing it away, xD

[Mikayi]

I do a lot actually. I draw on paper, so I will go through a ton of paper because I get upset with one part of the panel or the whole thing because I can't get anything right. so I know the feeling of just chucking things out. I think the best thing is to relax, and take a break from trying to draw the page, then go back to it.

often it happens when I feel overly rushed, can't think of how to draw the panels. I hope you will get less frustrated and feel better about your art though.

[Shanny8]

Everyone has days like that. If you're having it, and you need to do pages to update, you need to power through it- start out by trying to draw stuff that you think is fun instead of trying to concentrate on your comic. Once you get into a good drawing groove, try to make a go at your pages.

If you're not working on (mandatory)pages/artwork, dont try to force anything- the mood will come back.

[Momomori]

I'm having a week of this horrid artist disease, I literally JUST tried to draw something, and even the sketch looked like crap, and that says something since the sketch is usually the only successful part of my drawings.

[Devika]

It happens to me sometimes, but mostly it's just a matter of not warming up properly. You use muscles when you draw, so it makes sense to warm them up before trying to punch out a masterpiece! I do it with gesture drawing, the pixelovely gesture drawing site even has a "class mode" to help with this. They start with shorter intervals and then get longer, for as long as you have specified.

And then there are days where no amount of gesture drawing can make me feel good about what I put on paper... That's when I do something else until the mood comes back, since I'm not bound by a comic schedule yet.

Edit: This post must be cursed. I just spent 1h+ trying to do gesture drawings but I ended up hating them so much I had to take a break, haha.

[Tentakustar]

Yes, It's happening right now actually. it's more or less of an Art block though I'm trying to get through.

[timinabox24]

I already can't draw, like, at all
but then every now and then I have that one day when I make something that actually looks neat

I feel like it's better not to worry too much about it, for me at least; if I actually try to draw something neat then you know I'll fuck it up, but when I just accidentally drop a pen on the paper then it comes out a masterpiece ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[jonufele]

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[Herofeeder]

when i draw 2 min poses the first 10 are horrible in every sense . and i flip my sh.....t bcs of it , then i keep going and i kind of get the hang of it ...i dont throw it away or anything like that , i think it just takes time to warm up. there are warm up excerises for that kind of a thing.but if you stayed up late and woke up all fuzzy your probably going to draw really bad that day.

[sarrowsmith10]

It's been a week of revisions for me. I like the work I drew, but the paying folks sent stuff back to the drawing board. In many ways that gives me the same feelings as when I'm just in an art block. Like, "really I have to redo this?" then I watch 3 hours of TV and ignore life.. haha...

On days that I just can't get crap onto paper at all, I browse the art on Pinterest or Deviantart and look for inspiration. Sometimes it helps, sometimes not. I also clean my house or organize my files. Sometimes the clutter gets in the way of my zen.

[indagold]

I found my work is good when I don't have much to do, once I'm stuck doing a ton of work my quality just deteriorates if I lack motivation. At least I can take a break and go back and fix what I was struggling with.

[popsiclestick]

uuuGH i have it most of the time, honestly. It feels like there's rare moments when I /can/ draw and all the lines flow, but those are few and far between and so I just fill the other time with colouring/painting.

[Isky]

That's every day for me.

[Tiny_Waffle_of_Doom]

Very often. I hate it >_<

[Ayumi]

Yup, I know that feeling -_- Those times there's nothing else you can do, just have a break. The most annoying is that sometimes I burn to draw something and be productive but when I sit down to draw I'm just looking at the paper or my half made pages, and lose my mood. I really hate that feeling :/

[VermillionWorks]

Do you guys have those days when your drawings just seem to suck?

"Days"? This is kind of my life lately. XD

[thomasfallaeriksen]

Yes. Sometimes it's days, sometimes it's weeks, and sometimes it's months.

[El_Psy_Congroo]

I feel like all my characters are being drawn extra pudgy today. Maybe my subconscious is telling me to lay off the ice cream...

I agree with @sarrowsmith10 though, looking at other artwork is very inspiring for days like these.

[vongcw]

Yup. Although one useful thing I've done to reduce the feeling is to recognise it's just a feeling. I often look at a page or a drawing i did remembering i felt bad or good about it a few days/weeks/months after and realise, hey, it doesn't look that bad nor does it actually look that great. Improvement for me has always been incremental and after a conscious change of technique. But emotions well, they can lie. And that helps me just let go a bit more. Sure i think its a bad drawing but tomorrow i might look at it and say hey, thats not too shabby for me.

[mac]

so,, my entire life? lmao