A doodle-page that I committed myself to for about a week.

Recently I've been reflecting a lot on my skills as an artist. For part of 2022 and the first bit of 2023, I've really been committed to trying to get better at drawing, specifically when it comes to drawing the forms of a drawing (you know breaking a drawing down to it's basic shapes, then making a good sketch, that shit).

I've been finding myself not being happy with more drawings than I have in past. I've found myself getting frustrated and in a bad mood if I wasn't able to draw something good on a doodle page. It got to the point where I legitimately thought about quitting doodling, at least for a little bit.

But on the other hand, I've really noticed how much I have improved at drawing. Taking a look at some of the doodle pages I was making just a year ago is kinda surreal. I seriously don't remember being that shit at drawing cartoons lmao. Doodles 9 specifically is pretty "cute" to look back on. I left a lil passionate blurb about how I improved and how I was actually feeling great about doodling as a skill. And now here I am, looking back on that and noting how scuffed it looks.

Also not to mention how boring some of my drawing looked. Looking at my very first posts on NG has me questioning what was going through my head (prolly fuckin straight-up nothing lol). I've felt that I've more moved away from drawing generic cartoon characters and actually started making some characters with some semblance of personality. Now I have a decent cast of original characters that I've picked up over the last year that I really love (and wanna show off more of this year).

In short, the reason why I didn't quit is because I know I'm improving. Not to mention I still very much enjoy drawing even though I sometimes am fucking shit at it. Just like in Doodles 9, I have to note that I definitely still need improvement, still with forms but also definitely with coloring, shading, line art, posing, composition, etc, etc, etc. I may not be a complete dogshit artist now, but I would definitely not call myself a good artist. Slightly better than mediocre at best :).

So I'll end this lil reflection with this: here's to a year of artistic growth, and here's to looking back on THIS doodle page a year later and noticing how scuffed it looks. I got some shit planned for this year so stay tuned.

Good luck out there, thanks to all the people who've followed me, and remember...

YOU AIN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME