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thanks for the fav!
its really my pleasure
your work is stunning
your work is stunning
thank you for the kind words!
You've got an awesome gallery! did it took you a long time to learn how to draw? I'm asking because I've just started the basics and I'm already 30, and I'm not sure I got the necessary time to do it.
You've got an awesome gallery! did it took you a long time to learn how to draw? I'm asking because I've just started the basics and I'm already 30, and I'm not sure I got the necessary time to do it.
hahahaha thank you 
Well, lets say drawing is not about time, but about love.
Enjoy the time you spent sketching, inking, painting whatever. If you truly enjoy that, you'll grow your skills rocket fast!
Don't practice thinking about "it could be better". But think about how good you feel drawing it, that suddenly you will see how much your skills have improved.
All artists, specially the uber good ones says that "practice it all the time and you'll get there before you even realize it". Its basically all about practicing, but to do it all the time, you better like doing it hahaha
I draw since i'm 10, but I only really improved after I decided to take risks and draw all the time. Then in 2 years I evolved much more than I could ever think of. And all by my own. Maybe in a school, or living in a country where art education is more accessible would help.
But still, it doesn't matter the condition around you, if you enjoy it, the universe will make it work for you
Besides, you already have a great knowledge in photoshop/illustrator i guess and that will really speed up things! (When I started, I really knew nothing of it)
Something that really helped me tons was to watch Livestreams. There great artists show many tips that help you to understand where you need to start working.
I keep on following the artists I love more on twitter so that when they start livestreaming, jump in there right away.
Check out on these 2: [link] and [link]
They are constantly drawing live and doing crits over other artists works and giving away tips to improve everyone.
oh dear, i've spoken too much
lol
well, hope you enjoy it
and I really wish to see some of your drawings soon
Well, lets say drawing is not about time, but about love.
Enjoy the time you spent sketching, inking, painting whatever. If you truly enjoy that, you'll grow your skills rocket fast!
Don't practice thinking about "it could be better". But think about how good you feel drawing it, that suddenly you will see how much your skills have improved.
All artists, specially the uber good ones says that "practice it all the time and you'll get there before you even realize it". Its basically all about practicing, but to do it all the time, you better like doing it hahaha
I draw since i'm 10, but I only really improved after I decided to take risks and draw all the time. Then in 2 years I evolved much more than I could ever think of. And all by my own. Maybe in a school, or living in a country where art education is more accessible would help.
But still, it doesn't matter the condition around you, if you enjoy it, the universe will make it work for you
Besides, you already have a great knowledge in photoshop/illustrator i guess and that will really speed up things! (When I started, I really knew nothing of it)
Something that really helped me tons was to watch Livestreams. There great artists show many tips that help you to understand where you need to start working.
I keep on following the artists I love more on twitter so that when they start livestreaming, jump in there right away.
Check out on these 2: [link] and [link]
They are constantly drawing live and doing crits over other artists works and giving away tips to improve everyone.
oh dear, i've spoken too much
lol
well, hope you enjoy it
and I really wish to see some of your drawings soon
I really thank you for your reply Paula!
This is the longest message anyone sent me on this matter. And this is a good thing! Thank you for caring!
WARNING: long message incoming!
I kept postponing the reply cause I really didn't know what to tell you.
"drawing is not about time, but about love" now this is a quote that I'll remember!
It's like love just comes out of you... this is what I can "see" from your reply.
I on the other hand and not that loving. It's a lot of stress having to manage and work in the small advertising agency I own (we are 3 people and I'm the one doing graphic design, programming, sometimes handling clients and a bunch of stuff). I kinda like what I'm doing but this keeps me angry almost all the time and this is definitely not a good thing. Lately I've been trying to channel my anger doing creative stuff (like I did many years ago doing something like this: [link] ) but now I lack the patience to do it. I keep thinking "this is such a waist of time when I got real and much more important things to do". What is real anyway, right?
I don't want to all my problems on you, but they have a big impact on my dilemma regarding drawing. It's like I don't know what I like, what I love anymore. I dunno, is this a 30 thing or something... I've actually got about 3 months until the magic number birthday.
Dunno what the hell happened to me? I guess this illusion we call reality got me. I used to love drawing that abstract stuff, even though I never went to art school and I had no idea what I was doing. I would actually wake up in the middle of the night with an idea and just started drawing with in the dark. But now as I've started exploring in depth the art of drawing, I realized that all I was doing was draw stupid nonsense crap that can't really be called art.
And I see all these really talented artists that are struggling to make it and I don't want to struggle anymore. I don't want my drawing to be about struggling! I've struggled all my life and I keep doing it and to be honest I had enough.
I want drawing to be about love and challenge but not about struggling. And when I take a look at other artist, I panic and think that I'll never be as good as then so it all becomes pointless... all my scribbling, all my stuff.
I keep thinking art is so subjective. I don't see the real value of Mona Lisa and other famous stuff like that. I might be missing something, maybe some art classes where teachers explain, reading critiques from a book or something, why these paintings have such a high value. I appreciate contemporary digital art much more than some old stuff which doesn't communicate much to me.
I guess it's time for me to play around with drawing stuff.
I used to play around with hardtechno music for about 4 years and ended up as a big deception. I got broke and had to find a way to earn a living since music wan't gonna help me achieve this. That how I've ended up doing graphic design.
Everything I did was by my own... but I see I'm not the only one. But after the big music deception I hardly feel like doing the same thing again with drawing. Damn I need professional help .
I'll end it here for now.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for listening! (well... reading)
Have a great day,
Cristian
This is the longest message anyone sent me on this matter. And this is a good thing! Thank you for caring!
WARNING: long message incoming!
I kept postponing the reply cause I really didn't know what to tell you.
"drawing is not about time, but about love" now this is a quote that I'll remember!
It's like love just comes out of you... this is what I can "see" from your reply.
I on the other hand and not that loving. It's a lot of stress having to manage and work in the small advertising agency I own (we are 3 people and I'm the one doing graphic design, programming, sometimes handling clients and a bunch of stuff). I kinda like what I'm doing but this keeps me angry almost all the time and this is definitely not a good thing. Lately I've been trying to channel my anger doing creative stuff (like I did many years ago doing something like this: [link] ) but now I lack the patience to do it. I keep thinking "this is such a waist of time when I got real and much more important things to do". What is real anyway, right?
I don't want to all my problems on you, but they have a big impact on my dilemma regarding drawing. It's like I don't know what I like, what I love anymore. I dunno, is this a 30 thing or something... I've actually got about 3 months until the magic number birthday.
Dunno what the hell happened to me? I guess this illusion we call reality got me. I used to love drawing that abstract stuff, even though I never went to art school and I had no idea what I was doing. I would actually wake up in the middle of the night with an idea and just started drawing with in the dark. But now as I've started exploring in depth the art of drawing, I realized that all I was doing was draw stupid nonsense crap that can't really be called art.
And I see all these really talented artists that are struggling to make it and I don't want to struggle anymore. I don't want my drawing to be about struggling! I've struggled all my life and I keep doing it and to be honest I had enough.
I want drawing to be about love and challenge but not about struggling. And when I take a look at other artist, I panic and think that I'll never be as good as then so it all becomes pointless... all my scribbling, all my stuff.
I keep thinking art is so subjective. I don't see the real value of Mona Lisa and other famous stuff like that. I might be missing something, maybe some art classes where teachers explain, reading critiques from a book or something, why these paintings have such a high value. I appreciate contemporary digital art much more than some old stuff which doesn't communicate much to me.
I guess it's time for me to play around with drawing stuff.
I used to play around with hardtechno music for about 4 years and ended up as a big deception. I got broke and had to find a way to earn a living since music wan't gonna help me achieve this. That how I've ended up doing graphic design.
Everything I did was by my own... but I see I'm not the only one. But after the big music deception I hardly feel like doing the same thing again with drawing. Damn I need professional help
.I'll end it here for now.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for listening! (well... reading)
Have a great day,
Cristian
I'm gonna warn about it too: really huge message incoming lol
>>
First, thank you for sharing! Congratulations for throwing all this out!
To talk about it, specially with a stranger, is a very beautiful thing : )
Its a great time for you, dont waste it! Use every second of it!
You are being able to watch what is going on inside you! And that's more than half-way out of your problems : )
Now second, let the dust settle. You must find inside yourself, that inner space, silent and full of joy. You still have it, don't worry! You will always have it, you have just lost the eyes to see it, thanks to stress and life issues we all loose ourselves in some way or another.
From what you have spoken, I believe it has a lot to do with your deception in music. By that time you didn't had much experience so you couldn't fully take advantage of your inner-break, but now is the time for your to rise up again, with all the years of training you had : )
Things change, you change, life changes, music and art changes, learn to accept and love those changes, so their real purpose can be revealed. Nothing is the same twice, so, if you try it again on art or music nowadays, with your experience everything might be completely different!
Time in this life, is a very very valuable thing! What you "lost" you never truly loose it, you have gained a lot of experience you can learn with. Things that will help you pass through your current problems a lot more easily!
Watch for it, the universe always gives us the right tools so we can find our way in the present moment. And without a struggle
I learnt this quite recently, when I decided to return to the world of art, drawings, designs, and everything. I learnt so much after this last 3 years I was away that its everything working out just fine now.
And in worst hypothesis, if it fails again and I have to search for a outside job again, I'll be glad cause there will be more things for me to learn in this new phase.
Universe lives in an always struggle-less movements. But you have to trust life, this moment and your instincts.
You know what to do, you know what to love, you know what is real, you know the "place of money, work and society" inside your real life, you know the value of what IS actually real. Meditate on your life and how you are using your challenges to actually help you learn with them.
And trust, there will be always help when you need it, the universe always gives a "hint" on the solution of our own inner problems : )
Btw, you wouldn't see love in my reply if you didn't had it insider yourself in the first place ; D
Now, onto more practical stuff: Anger, in chinese medicine is basically, "energy of change". You want things to change in your life, that is quite clear, so you gotta start moving things. Move the situations towards what you really want in your life.
But for things to work out, you have to use the anger but not to become absolved by it.
When the "explosion of anger" comes, try a "dynamic meditation", like hitting a pillow, or running without a destination, do irrational things, illogical things, move the body and let all that "action energy" flow.
By the time all that agitation leaves your body, you will have a much more clear mind to take decisions more responsibility, and really focused on what you want in your life.
Now, I can not help you with art, while you don't solve this "reality node" inside you.
You said "I guess this illusion we call reality got me.": "this illusion we call reality" - do you really know what you just said? If its really an illusion, and you feel deep down that all this is just temporary, then why are you paying attention to its "problems, doubts and fears"?
Stop giving energy to what you don't love! Find that smile inside you, the happiness inside yourself and build your roots on it. If all the rest is going away, sooner or later, how do you want to live every second of your life?
You are more free to choose than you believe. Just trust that, independently of your choice, you will always have something to learn, enjoy and experience there : )
Don't be afraid to "loose" what you have already got. If you have matter around you but don't have happiness to enjoy it, then what does it worth?
"I want drawing to be about love and challenge" - just draw your own life in love and challenge then. Change your point of view of everything. Your own point of view, is the only thing we can really control on this life. All the rest is just momentary.
All kinds of arts, the famous, the old, the new, contemporary, the unknown ones, its all just a form of expression of whoever drew it. In some time of your life, you might enjoy a Mona Lisa, while other times in another phase of your life, you might not enjoy it.
One day you might "see the point" (if there is any) of that art, but don't worry, don't pay attention to that. That is not rly important.
Forget about critics and whatever "others" think about something, just find how you really feel about it. Others paths are not your own. You are unique in this world, so trust and go for it : D
Oh dear, I have spoken too much again lol
Take care
If you want, we can chat more about it, exchange experiences, maybe through notes or something more private if you want lol
Nothing is coincidental
Again, take good care of your existence here : )
Have an amazing day for your too,
Paula
>>
First, thank you for sharing! Congratulations for throwing all this out!
To talk about it, specially with a stranger, is a very beautiful thing : )
Its a great time for you, dont waste it! Use every second of it!
You are being able to watch what is going on inside you! And that's more than half-way out of your problems : )
Now second, let the dust settle. You must find inside yourself, that inner space, silent and full of joy. You still have it, don't worry! You will always have it, you have just lost the eyes to see it, thanks to stress and life issues we all loose ourselves in some way or another.
From what you have spoken, I believe it has a lot to do with your deception in music. By that time you didn't had much experience so you couldn't fully take advantage of your inner-break, but now is the time for your to rise up again, with all the years of training you had : )
Things change, you change, life changes, music and art changes, learn to accept and love those changes, so their real purpose can be revealed. Nothing is the same twice, so, if you try it again on art or music nowadays, with your experience everything might be completely different!
Time in this life, is a very very valuable thing! What you "lost" you never truly loose it, you have gained a lot of experience you can learn with. Things that will help you pass through your current problems a lot more easily!
Watch for it, the universe always gives us the right tools so we can find our way in the present moment. And without a struggle
I learnt this quite recently, when I decided to return to the world of art, drawings, designs, and everything. I learnt so much after this last 3 years I was away that its everything working out just fine now.
And in worst hypothesis, if it fails again and I have to search for a outside job again, I'll be glad cause there will be more things for me to learn in this new phase.
Universe lives in an always struggle-less movements. But you have to trust life, this moment and your instincts.
You know what to do, you know what to love, you know what is real, you know the "place of money, work and society" inside your real life, you know the value of what IS actually real. Meditate on your life and how you are using your challenges to actually help you learn with them.
And trust, there will be always help when you need it, the universe always gives a "hint" on the solution of our own inner problems : )
Btw, you wouldn't see love in my reply if you didn't had it insider yourself in the first place ; D
Now, onto more practical stuff: Anger, in chinese medicine is basically, "energy of change". You want things to change in your life, that is quite clear, so you gotta start moving things. Move the situations towards what you really want in your life.
But for things to work out, you have to use the anger but not to become absolved by it.
When the "explosion of anger" comes, try a "dynamic meditation", like hitting a pillow, or running without a destination, do irrational things, illogical things, move the body and let all that "action energy" flow.
By the time all that agitation leaves your body, you will have a much more clear mind to take decisions more responsibility, and really focused on what you want in your life.
Now, I can not help you with art, while you don't solve this "reality node" inside you.
You said "I guess this illusion we call reality got me.": "this illusion we call reality" - do you really know what you just said? If its really an illusion, and you feel deep down that all this is just temporary, then why are you paying attention to its "problems, doubts and fears"?
Stop giving energy to what you don't love! Find that smile inside you, the happiness inside yourself and build your roots on it. If all the rest is going away, sooner or later, how do you want to live every second of your life?
You are more free to choose than you believe. Just trust that, independently of your choice, you will always have something to learn, enjoy and experience there : )
Don't be afraid to "loose" what you have already got. If you have matter around you but don't have happiness to enjoy it, then what does it worth?
"I want drawing to be about love and challenge" - just draw your own life in love and challenge then. Change your point of view of everything. Your own point of view, is the only thing we can really control on this life. All the rest is just momentary.
All kinds of arts, the famous, the old, the new, contemporary, the unknown ones, its all just a form of expression of whoever drew it. In some time of your life, you might enjoy a Mona Lisa, while other times in another phase of your life, you might not enjoy it.
One day you might "see the point" (if there is any) of that art, but don't worry, don't pay attention to that. That is not rly important.
Forget about critics and whatever "others" think about something, just find how you really feel about it. Others paths are not your own. You are unique in this world, so trust and go for it : D
Oh dear, I have spoken too much again lol
Take care
If you want, we can chat more about it, exchange experiences, maybe through notes or something more private if you want lol
Nothing is coincidental
Again, take good care of your existence here : )
Have an amazing day for your too,
Paula