I’m trying really hard to be like… “medication will help me these side effects are temporary”
but honestly i’m just tired a lot and it’s making it close to impossible for me to draw and do art work.
It’s starting to get a bit tiresome, no pun intended.
I just want to draw and I feel like I can’t even do that.
It’s making me kind of paranoid that the meds will just inhibit my ability to do anything creative.
Iunno.
Sleep isn’t the issue. I’ve been getting plenty of sleep recently. A full 8 hours at that.
The medication just makes me VERY drowsy. It’s a side effect of taking the meds and it’s very frustrating.
No amount of sleep is going to prevent the medication from doing what it do.
I’ve been kinda bad about updating people here about what’s been going on with me lately, so here’s the scoop.
I went to therapy last week and got diagnosed with bipolar disorder, anxiety, and depression. So I’m now being medicated to treat those.
The medication has been hitting me hard recently. I’ve been very tired and it’s been really hard to execute anything like drawing, so I’ve been taking it easy.
It’s frustrating, but it’s either I take this medicine to fix my fucked up head, or I stay miserable.
So I gotta wait out the side effects.
Anyway, I’ve been posting a lot of my recent work to Furaffinity. If you want to see what I got there, click here.
But yes, I’ve been kinda slow recently. This is thanks to the side effects of my medication. Hopefully it won’t last for too long, but I won’t know till I stop feeling tired all the fucking time.
It is very frustrating, but what else can I do.
andras-duke-of-hell asked:
So does this mean we might see some Fallout Equestria stuff in the near future?
Very strong possibility my friend
holy fuck I haven’t been more inspired in my fucking LIFEEEE
forged-blade asked:
Will Nexx and Fluster get these designs too?
No to Fluster and I don’t know about Nexx. I haven’t really thought about it. Redesigning them is not my priority right now.
Anonymous asked:
I for one, welcome our new horse overlords
Me too my friend. Me too. =3=
princesharpshard asked:
will we get comissions with the new style? :3
If that is what you prefer! If you want to commission me and you specify in your commission, “I want this to be drawn in an MLP show style.” then I’ll gladly do that as well. I’m capable of switchin!
Anonymous asked:
They lose a lot of their cartoon appeal, though, not that it's bad but it doesn't really fit most of the show characters (or even OCs) to have more realistic face structure. Not trying to tell you what to do, just adding to the discussion, your style is your call, at the end of the day.
Yea, I’m aware that they lose their cartoonish appeal, but here’s the thing.
Whether you agree with me or not, the MLP style is a formulated style. It was designed to be easy to execute.
The MLP show style has horse characteristics, but if you’re going to rely solely on the MLP show style for all of your pony/horse illustrations, then you are greatly limiting your abilities as an artist.
I don’t dislike the MLP show style! I am however a bit tired of it. I find it to be greatly limiting in how expressive I can execute characters. That, and the MLP show style gets to a point where breaking the rules of that style start to become wonky. It’s not right imo to focus on a formula for so long that it just becomes your go to whenever drawing any kind of horse character. There’s no development there.
One of my weak points as an artist is not knowing how proper anatomy and form is executed. While I definitely execute my drawings like I know wtf I’m doing, I assure you that this isn’t the case most of the time. I don’t have a total grip on what I’m doing.
So I’ve bought online courses and I’m watching lots of videos on how to properly understand anatomy and figure drawing in my fields of interest.
I’m currently in the process of understanding the forms of horse’s and human anatomy from the inside out. Everything from bone structure, to muscle placement and how they work. It is a lot of work.
Being able to learn this stuff from the inside out allows us as artists to understand how the body of all living things behave, and what our limits/abilities are. Once you’ve got an understanding of this, you can move on to simplifying the forms of what you’re drawing so that they become much easier to execute. Things like breaking down things into shapes, using bean techniques, robo beans, lines of action, etc.
After you understand this, THEN you can better understand how to break the rules. When the MLP show style was produced, I’m fairly certain that the artists had an understanding, or at least studied before hand, the anatomy of horses.
So to wrap this all up, while I understand there are people here who would rather see me continue with the MLP style, I’m going to be drawing a lot of my characters (horses and pones included) with the information and approaches I’m learning. This is mostly due too A. Me wanting to implement this information into my brain so that it becomes muscle memory, and B. It’s just fun!
So yea. I understand what I’m doing and what some people might want me to continue doing. If you want me to improve as an artist, however, you need to allow me to go through these artistic phases.
Thanks for the ask! I enjoy talking about this stuff.
