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Old sketch I found on my old email when I worked on commissions. I sent it on January 2011 for approval and I remember I was asked to change the hair to better resemble the one of Motoko Kusanagi, making her ass bigger and changing her "casual futuristic clothes" to the usual bodysuit she used

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A few months ago I got bored while listening to a lecture and ended up burning an hour on trying to paint a horse.

I tried to stick to simple shapes and minimalist features so that I could practice shading and painting above all else, and I was intending on painting a sun behind the whole thing to practice backgrounds and make the light source more obvious, but I ended up running out of time during the day and haven't picked the drawing up since.

I'm posting it here because it kind of gave me a whole new reason to love drawing.

As I was painting it, I found myself trying to rush and get it done and over with asap like I usually tend to do (even if I really like something) since I don't like actually drawing too much. But while I was shading and trying to determine how the light would reflect off the horse's muscles and position in relation to the sun, I found myself actually getting sort of immersed in the detailing.
Obviously there wasn't much of it- I think the most that there is ended up going into that raised leg and the thigh- but it was enough to kind of change my perspective and get me to think a little.
It felt like I was solving a puzzle and producing something while doing it instead of just trying to communicate something only I saw or fixing a nonexistent problem for funsies, I think, which tickled the part of me that likes wasting hours on those stupid process-of-elimination logic puzzles and the part of me getting mad at that other part for wasting hours on those puzzles instead of doing something more productive.

Unfortunately, I haven't drawn since, and I'm kind of unsure of my relation to the entire hobby now lol.
I want to keep drawing because I refuse to let the images my imagination shows me remain in my head, but I still don't like the process too much and have a very hard time convincing myself to even just sit down and start doing the fundamentals over and over and over again... but that weird feeling from before just won't leave me alone and I'm not sure how to recreate it because I can't get through even a simple drawing right now without just putting it down 20 minutes in and scrapping it, either because it looks like shit or because it's frustrating me to draw.

I think it might just be artist's block but if it is then it's the worst i've had it in a very very long time. Before the horse I only drew two or three things in the entire year and 2023 is now more than halfway done with little progress. If anything I feel like my will to draw is fading more and more every day as I become more and more frustrated with my attempts.

TL;DR: I began to deeply enjoy painting the horse, but I haven't drawn since and I think I'm going through the worst art block I've ever had. Have barely drawn all year.

I think I just need to learn to be more patient with myself when drawing instead of being so uptight and fiercely competitive. Maybe get a drawing buddy or mentor or something. I don't know.

Anyways, enjoy the blocky horse. I hope to carve a small statue of him someday and place him upon my bookshelf as a symbol of trying new things and getting somewhere with them.

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Doppelmonger said:
Old sketch I found on my old email when I worked on commissions. I sent it on January 2011 for approval and I remember I was asked to change the hair to better resemble the one of Motoko Kusanagi, making her ass bigger and changing her "casual futuristic clothes" to the usual bodysuit she used

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...So basically, "Great, now draw a whole new picture."
Also, love how the big ass he was given wasn't enough. Damn dude.
 
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So Joel posted a rather... odd stream on May, so I began it on the 26th of June. It was finished on August 9th.

As you might’ve guessed in the image, this cartoon was censored for YouTube. Let's just say that I had a little too much fun while making this.

Will I ever release an uncut version? Probably. Perhaps on someplace like e621 or something.

Eitherway, here's the YouTube version:
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