Quitting, and explanations.

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Not forever.

I'll explain everything.



Lately, I've not been mentally good. And I'm serious...
I can't sleep properly.
I can't think properly.
I get angered really easily.
Among other things.

This might sound casual from me, but this time It's true.
I can't sleep properly for 4 nights, except when I got drunk with a group of friends, only way I got some sleep that night, but I don't wanna repeat that again. Not healthy in any aspect...

Not to mention, I'm starting my own life, on a complete foreign country 3000km away from mine, in university, no job, all alone by myself...

I've said before I was willing to keep drawing and improve.
But all that plan backfired at me, here's why:


Im going back to my old style...
It was like knowing your lil' car, and then you changed to a "plane" where everything inside is completely different and you barely entered and It already begs too much of you.

I prefer stick to my creation and work with it over time, instead going for other guy style, that only he knows 100%, and for much he can explain, you can never apply 100%.

And that part was by my choice change the whole picture upside down to a new thing.
Huge mistake I can say in my perspective.
That happiness only lasted like 1 week.
Turned into stress, being lost, and all that his down.

You can't simply jump from level 10 to level 60 and expect to be the same as level 10.
And that's what I did. It was like using a cheat code and now I have myself handed to this hell.

And I don't feel any joy in drawing in the mean time.
Cause you think you're going great but in fact you aren't. There's always something failing.

THIS IS WHERE WE ENTER A CERTAIN PHASE WE ALL KNOW!

VVVVV


  1. First you have unlimited "continues". You have no excuse to shut down. You just keep drawing and drawing and drawing. Eventually, you start nailing it and getting good!
  2. You can go through all the parts needed to create AT LEAST a good work, but there's always in the end when you complete It, something you missed, something that could have made the work EVEN better!
  3. This will always be with you, if you're a traditional artist like me, ALWAYS.
  4. Then, you reach that phase where you are so frustrated from repeating and missing certain points you missed and same mistakes, that all your knowledge starts to weaken, to the point where you got mediocre in a thing you repeated so much that you were supposed to be good at, but just don't! Cause you repeated and missed so many times that your brain can't handle!

Bottom line

I'm quitting for some time.
By this point, I prefer to stick to my previous style, and by the time being, make sure I didn't forget how to do it...
You can expect from me a thing or 2, but I don't make promises.

:::UPDATE:::

In the mean time... you can check my struggles on my tumblr.
It's on my dA ID...
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Anybronym0ti0n's avatar
I know the feel of difference to a lesser extend, after almost two decades my room suffered an overhaul that left it completely claustrophobic, i couldn't sleep in it for a week because i started having panic attacks, enough for my family to worry and call if i was ok.

But dude, you're right, take a break, relax, play a video game, it worked for me when i had those rough time i told you about, over the time you will get established and things will ease.

It can take time and even after things are ok, you do feel the stress, but again, believe me, take a deep breath, do something else you like, over the time you will feel better and the shock of the "moving up too fast" will slow down until stuff is settled.

Either way i hope you get better