AbraMichelle

I bought a book entitled Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting because no matter how many tutorials I read or how many YouTube videos I googled, nothing seemed to be helping me grasp it. It's wordier than I expected but I am going to force myself to read it and get something out of it.

You know, as many times as I read that you shouldn't compare your work to other's I always end up scrolling through the internet beating myself up for not being as good as so and so at this or so and so at that. I know that I have my strengths and I am trying to constantly get better I just get so frustrated at my lack of progress sometimes. I work at a college that has a good art program but I swear I never wanted to go back to school. Not to mention, the lack of funds. I really wish I could get a grasp of drawing on my Wacom but it seems to evade me. I have two (technically three if you count CS4) drawing programs and neither quite click th

I don't think I ever thought it would be that difficult to come up with my own style of illustrations. You know taking a photo of a person and drawing it in a manner that you can recognize it but it's not realistic? I am really not sure what that is called. Not only that but also just getting to the point where I can draw from my mind. I was looking at some of my old drawings this week from sketchbooks I had when I was a teenager. In some ways I have come so far but in other ways, not really. I would love to have someone look through all of my work for an honest opinion but then again I would feel so raw and exposed. I really wish I had the