I haven't been able to draw for about a month or longer, I thought It maybe had to do with artblock but Its gotten to the point where even if I just do a simple doodle I cant bear to look at it and scribble it out. With this I've been also having doubt of my years of doodling and drawing in general. Just to clarify this I'm not complaining of the amount of views or ratings of my art, that is the least of my concerns.
The real concern is MYSELF, I fear that I lost the spark of doing art and lost sight of my original reason of why I wanted to do art in the first place. The temptation of me quitting on everything creative that I had in plan are heavily strong, I try resisting those thoughts by watching and observing art and animated pieces that gave me sparks in the past, sadly there quickly fading away the more I realize that I can't be competent creatively with the pieces of media that I watched over the years. And the thing is that I'm deathly afraid of quitting art and other things that are creative, I've been dreaming about these topics since I was a wee lad and other things never interested me in life. If I quit art now, what will I even do with my life?
I've shown my art to friends and strangers and they always say the same thing " don't care what other people say." or " Your art is fine." which is nice but the thing is I'm not worried about the people or what they say negatively about it. IM the person that is not satisfied with my art. Its so bad to the point where after the art piece "BOXER BIGSHOT DINGO" there was suppose to be three other artworks I was gonna post here but I deleted the artworks completely because they did not reach the expectation. I want to believe my reasoning for the deleted art pieces was my crippling confidence for getting something right that I've planned in my head.
To be honest I don't know what gonna happen for me in the future, expect nothing because most likely nothing gonna happen.
P.S there was supposed to be more writing but I got clogged up in thought.
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hmm. I have that same problem you described where, I'll spend a lot of time sketching something out and ill think it looks like crap. Its like "ive' drawn good stuff before, why does the stuff I'm drawing now look so mediocre". for that problem I have no real solution, I think part of being an artist is just trying over and over and over again until you've made something that looks good. I'd say try adding some novelty to the art making process. Try a different type of art ,like pixel art or 3d art. try adding some fun to it. There's this game I like to play with my friends called "five minute draw" where you give each other a three word prompt and you have to design a character based around the prompt you were given. for example I could give you a prompt like "pompous phlegm monster" and you'd have to design a character with all three of those attributes in five minutes or less. I hope you don't give up art entirely because I think you have a pretty charming art style. if you need to take a brake from art for a while, thats perfectly fine. I hope this helps ,Im not the best at this type of stuff.