What does your burn out look like?

[Leyelle]

Only show us the art you've created when you felt brain-dead, burned out, or uninspired. There has to be something good in our creations even on our worst days so let's show each other some encouragement ey?

I'll start since I've been burned out the last few days *read: basically all year) but these last few days it's been even worse, so my art has been mid at best lol and THIS at worst

[Skyy]

So I've been really unmotivated for a couple months and I just push myself to make art but not as much as I used to. Here was an art trade I did with a friend.

[Leyelle]

I like how vibrant the pictre looks, you can really tell the character is standing in a bright light, maybe like sunshine coming through a window

[abigaillmartin]

Me being on the autism spectrum my burnout with art plus regular burnout is much worse. Burnout sucks. You just shut down and have no motivation.

Low energy, can’t think straight, don’t wanna do anything. All your ideas just vanish.

Yes Ernest I feel you!

[Skyy]

Thank you ^^ it took a lot longer than I had wanted but mack of motivation suckd

[2DLenzy]

Going through a mini-burnout right now, but that may be more due to me drawing things I can't draw over the past few weeks and getting frustrated over it.

What it looks like:
Loss of motivation and slowing down--WAAY down...
Lack of care for my work--and it shows in my art. I'll also tend to rush through sections of story that I don't find interesting to draw.
Ultimately, having to postpone an upload or miss it entirely.

I'm also on the spectrum, so when I burn out, I burn out HARD!

Still pushing through, tho, cause I do love the story, and my subs! (Also, the chickens will be reappearing soon, my fave subject to draw, so there's that to look forward to)

[Leyelle]

Loss of motivation and slowing down--WAAY down...

same, I've made very little progress with my comic, though I have managed to make all the sketches/outlines for the panels, i have yet to clean up/complete the artwork

[llobucervallince]

[Skyy]

This is not what I was expecting but now that I've seen this nothing can beat it

[kyupol]

Was coming off a hiatus when I drew that panel

[VibrantFox]

i've been in and out of bad burnout (possibly burnout syndrome ) for a while so it's been a lot of trying to get back into art and writing, getting frustrated or sad when it doesn't come out how i want or isn't flowing and then falling back on other comforts like gaming, reading other folks fics or comic, and watching anime/cartoons/movies till those stop working then rinse and repeat

when a flow does hit i manage to churn out either something halfway decent or whatever scribbles and sketches my hands and head can manage to conjure up. like these are a few from the past month or so

the 'betadine brush' sketches were probably during one of the heights of the "art hates me" block so i was just scrawling out whatever (which was probably about one of them a day or so if not longer between) and then the inkling sketch which was around grandfest and trying to suck as much enjoyment from that as i could. the strawberry candy think was an almost desperate attempt to make one of those purrrlollies creatures that i saw on twitter (creds to stale_pancakes) and i kind of overdid it coz i couldnt make up my mind on a drawing method and then got like...extra stumped on the shading and that tossed me into like a week or so of not wanting to draw. so when i finally got it together was the sketches of my oc luci in the blue and that was referencing some sketches i had done months ago if nott last year and cleaning them up

rough periods of burnout have definitely been kinda rough on me coz it's not just struggling creatively but losing interest in a lot of the things that typically bring me joy so i pretty much potato and try to scribble unless i cant even manage that and just game whatever else i manage to feel up to

[XiuLyn_12]

I'm unsure if my readers notice, but I did make some burnout comic panels! There are some moments where I want to get it over with rather than enjoying the drawing. Here's one of the panels I dreaded to finish:

Would you have noticed I skipped so many details?

[Mohini9000]

Whenever I have a burnout, I just can't feel like making comics, which is a shame, because I love making comics. However, on those days, I wanna do comics, it's just that I lost my will to do them, which is why sometimes, I make these comics that are subpar at best and that I'm not satisfactory with. Usually, whenever I make my comics, I always try to make a better comic than the last.

[Leyelle]

it gives me g.i. joe vibes, that's not bad.

@VibrantFox

i like the person with the short fro who has their head resting on their hand, it's cute.

@XiuLyn_12

honestly, chibi modes are cute, and so many people do it that readers might not even be able to tell. it's a speed tactic i think

[XiuLyn_12]

Yeah! Chibis are a mild way to cheat to finish something faster! I'm glad it's not too obvious!

[Panpan]

I dont feel like writing for days and I just read a bunch of comics for a break!

[Leyelle]

the burnout continues

More burnout art

[Leyelle]

Burn out has returned!

She stepped out to get a coffee or something