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What I meant is its unfinished especially the hair ik for sure its gonna give me a headache no matter what the next step is (linear or directly painting on top) its not a bad foundation its just not enough, needs another sketch to figure stuff out :sweat_smile:

I think owing to an especially stressful week at work with some long hours, I’ve just been very dissatisfied with everything I’ve drawn this week. Every sketch I’ve done Ive done at least 3-5 times. Sometimes more, and still wasn’t happy with the results. 🫠
(Not like a “oh I suck this is bad” type of thing, just a “bleh this isn’t what I want it to look like” grumpy artist type of thing 🤣 I’m pretty self aware, it’s just a bad mood and stress impacting my work).

But here are a few pieces that managed survive getting nuked by my mood :skull: I tried to push through by forcing myself to move on to inking. I don’t think it helped. I’ll have to find another tactic :thinking:



Anybody else been in one of these loops? (Where you keep redrawing things or just feel dissatisfied with everything?) What do you do? :slight_smile:

@jessijokes I know exactly how you feel. January is busy for me work-wise, and I try to draw in the evenings, but I’m tired so make lots of mistakes. :see_no_evil:

@jessijokes sometimes you can't fight it :cry: IMO I would recommend to save all the attempts anyway, maybe in a month you will look at them with fresh eyes and see they were not bad at all xD but generally I think it's okay to just leave it as sketch and rest. Maybe try to experiment with colors instead of lining, this just might help putting yourself in a completely different mood.

Okay so we finished thumbnailing Hex s2 to the end (at 3 a.m. lol) and I am in a very strange head space now xD this helped to see the volume of work left for the season, but I am also somewhat overwhelmed now.
Random Summer sketch

@IndigoShirtProd oh, he's glorious! :hohoho: I totally love the scepter, especially the carvings on it

@Lensing good luck with the publishers!! You style is so old school :grin:

@Legendofgenii omg I just saw the doughnuts and they are SO CUTE??? the frog one! :heart_03:

I love looking over a stretch of rough panels as they start to fill out (a little bummed I have to do backgrounds now, but hey, pumped to be making progress). Freshly feeling the emotion work between the characters is one of the true joys of comic work.


Speaking of progress, @IndigoShirtProd - I don’t think I properly thanked you and your colleagues for making those score cards for the March Madness competition 2 years back. I think about your notes every time I plan panels out and it’s helped with my journey a good deal. Thank you for that experience, it was truly a gift.

Oh thank you :blush:. Yea, making the scorecards was one of best parts of the contest. That and reading everyone's comics. I wonder if we should do another contest?

I don't know if I'll sketch anything except pages today, but update on yesterday's Summer. Not exactly sure what I am trying to achieve here, but let's try. Sorry if it burns your retina :smile:

Apparently, today is the day I just can't draw feet or hands :pumpkin: oh well, sketching instead of lineart it is