I want to say that I absolutely admire how disciplined you are when it comes to creating art as is evident by how short your turnaround time is for your commissioned pieces! It's absolutely mind blowing! 🧿 Do you have any advice for artists to be half as disciplined as you are? How are you able to finish such beautifully rendered pieces in such record times please teach us your ways senpai! *could've asked privately in discord but I thought any pointers can help other struggling artists too ;3;
Oh, dang! First of all, thank you for the glowing compliment, dear friend!
As for the advice....I truly don’t know if it will be a helpful one.
To be perfectly honest, I lost almost a decade of possible artistic progress to depression, crippling self-doubt and fear.
The thing that helped me to take a first step and leave this hole full of nothingness, was to find something that will truly inspire me and make my imagination wheels turn. Fantasy art was just the thing. Seeing works of mind-blowingly talented artists like you and our mutual friends, helped me form a set of goals I wanted to achieve both in terms of technical skill and also in themes i wanted to explore in my artwork.
And skipping a year to present day...well, other then a strong desire to catch up on the years lost and a constant stream of ideas my feverish brain produces, I’m mostly propelled forward by utter desperation. Because either I get good at this one thing that truly excites me in life and make it my profession, or I will never be able to stand tall and be financially independent. There’s only one way for me and it’s up. So Lethy is working her ass off to both improve her skills, build a good portfolio of works and hopefully make art her profession :D
As for small daily schedule tips. It’s the usual - set a balanced schedule for yourself (doubly important during quarantine), take regular breaks, take care of your health; regularly switch attention to other activities that restore your creative resources.
I’m sorry if this isn’t of much help, but I couldn’t get around this being just a brutally honest answer.
Hugs!
