anon · 20d
i love your art! sorry if this is an odd question, but do you have any suggestions for newer artists? i used to draw a lot in middle school but i pretty much stopped dead back then because of bullying. it's something i really want to go back to enjoying, but have no idea where to start with anything further than a stick figure lmao. you're someone i aspire to be like artistically so i thought i'd ask you! (of course feel free to ignore this)
I don't know, it's hard trying to give advice. when you start drawing as a child you never think about how bad your art is. I genuinely thought my art was awesome and I could draw anything I wanted, so that gave me enough motivation to continue. obviously by the time the childish wonder wore off I could see that I sucked lol. but I didn't care, I just wanted to get the gist of it across. I would sit in my room and draw assassin's creed yaoi when I didn't know 1 thing about male anatomy because I only ever drew big headed anime catgirls before that. but I didn't care because it fulfilled me.
my advice is: if you want to enjoy art again you first need to learn how to let go of shame and embarassment. then think about something you really like that fuels you artistically and start there. the most important thing is that you start drawing
