There's a big paragraph down there so feel free to read it if you want, if you feel like your art sucks based on others' opinions then it is meant specifically for you This is a drawing I recently did, having just finished watching EmKay. Lexi has been my favorite for as long as I've watched their channel, and she is the one that inspired me to be myself no matter what. Recently, I had been thinking about how I wanted to improve in art, but I realized something. I always based improvement on how others viewed my art, instead of how I viewed my art. I saw my art as terrible unless someone else said it was good, and I was scared to try new things in art because I was scared of being judged. I realized that instead of viewing my sketchbook as something that everyone will see, I should view it as my safe haven. A place to try new things and not be ashamed, but be confident in my mistakes. So with that in mind, I started trying new art styles, and came upon this. I've never been good at drawing hands, so instead of finding ways to avoid drawing them, I embraced it. I drew them boxy and large, uneven and disproportionate. I've always struggled with shading as well, so I either don't shade or put it in odd places to embrace that. I have trouble drawing bodies so I draw them wonky and odd. I don't have much money, so I make do with what I have and embrace the patchiness of my supplies, sometimes leaving chunks uncolored. My lines sometimes bleed into my coloring, so I let it stay like that and keep coloring. I'm uploading this to show anyone who felt like I did one thing: your art is not meant to be perfect. It can be messy and weird, odd, out of the norm. That's okay. There is no one way to draw, we all do it differently and we all have our weak points. Turn your mistakes into happy accidents and you might be shocked. Voidbug out <3
