What's the holdup? Hadn't heard music from you in a minute.

In the recent times within the past months of June and late May, I stepped down from music production temporarily, since it's been draining me both mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. I caught myself staying up really late missing sleep from spinning my wheels and stuff. I don't know when I'm going to pick it back up, hopefully once my motivation and ideas come back again I can churn out some stuff

The Comeback to Art

If it's one thing that I can't stand for is unproductivity, so I couldn't just sit around and do absolutely nothing, hell no! For a few days, I thought of things I should do regarding creativity. Then one day, I found an empty sketchbook lying under my bed, collecting dust and a few pencils (coincidence right?). I'm not gonna leave my friend out on this as i owe him major props for teaching me and looking at my progress the past few weeks, Thanks bro! :)

Before, 3 years ago, 2020, I used to draw and stuff but didn't actually have a direction except to make those cool digital art pictures and stuff, that alone was very shallow, looking back at it today, so I ended up quitting it that time, as the drawings themselves weren't that good to begin with. Fast forward a few months ago, something told me I had some unfinished business and I should pick art back up again and that's what I'm doing, the past few weeks I've been practicing and I've already hit a level to where I feel like posting stuff in that category now.

My Process

So, I wanted to do digital art then, but here's the problem: I didn't and still don't have one of those fancy tablets those professional artists use! I didn't even know any other good softwares for art until I found one now. I only have a mouse and laptop so i had to make do with that, and you already know how hard it is to draw with a mouse alone, major props to those who do that without anything else. I found a relatively new printer lying around the house that no one has used in a hot minute so I took that and used that as a part of my big plan.

Looking at the older animations from the 1900s such as Mickey, Bamby, Astroboy, etc, I took the idea from the process, of drawing whatever it is first on paper, then redrawing it digitally. I realized that the printer I snagged had a scan feature and I already knew I was better at drawing on paper because I have better hand eye coordination with that than with a computer. I first draw what I'm drawing on paper, Scan it with the printer, then redraw it using the mouse, while fixing some errors in it in the process of digitalizing. My english teacher was right, when you do things on paper first, then put it in the computer, you can catch much more errors, and didn't even realize it applies with art in my situation!