Quote of the Week: You do you and I'll do me and we're not gonna do each other.

Realism

Almost forgot to do the post I make in this world every Tuesday. Apparently making yourself do something (like this) at a specific time or day every week is a good way to make sure you keep doing something that may be important to you. You can develop good habits this way, but I started this without even knowing that and it seems to work. Lucky me.

One of my uncles will be staying with us for the summer to do some job. It may be interesting because he's an artist and can draw really well. In fact, I think the job he's doing involves his art skills. He draws realism, which ,surprise surprise, I can do too. I'm actually way better at realism than at drawing anime. I can look at something and draw it realistically, but if I try to just draw something from my mind then it won't be as good.
But tbh, I haven't done realism in a little while because I've been trying to improve my anime drawing skills. I hope I'm still good, because I've been entering realism into a county fair art show for a few years now and my parents expect me to do it every summer.
Not that it's a bother or anything, but 1. It really puts things in perspective when you enter your art in a fair and you see all these other pieces that look way better than yours and you realize you probably aren't as good as everyone around you( including yourself) thinks you are. 2. My parents keep telling me about these artists who make millions of dollars on their work but I doubt I could make much money with realism/pencil art nowadays (even if it's not millions).
A while ago my dad said my skill would erode if I stop doing it for so long but I guess it's losing importance to me....

*sigh*

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I looked on my profile and realized that I only submit fan art every couple of weeks. For some reason I thought I submitted more frequently than this so it kind of surprised me.
So I want to submit more often. I'm a slow drawer so I definitely wouldn't be able to submit something everyday. The plan was to do several drawings this evening, but, good gravy, that Chiyuki drawing took forever and it's not even that good. And now I'm tired.
I think the only chance I have of making good digital art is to do the lineart and shadow first in pencil, so that's what I did.
Drawing more will also be good, because I need some new bookmarks anyway. Just so you know, some of the drawings I do are done on index cards so I can use them as bookmarks in the various books I'm always reading. The drawings I did of Kaneki, Kakashi, Nel, and Toki are all bookmarks. I always get complimented on them when people at school see them and ask if I drew them. It's very pleasant.

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