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[Delphinoid_]

Candy gore sketches?

Pretty much. I love anything cute, but I also love stuff that's creepy / weird / offputting. I don't necessarily find the super bright colours in candy gore appealing, but I do like the general style a lot. Something funny is that even though I like drawing gore, I hate drawing (physical) pain. I think this is the main thing that what I like to do shares with candy gore; rather than having gore arise through torture or the like, it's an inherent part of the character's design. Rather than using it as a tool to communicate extreme physical suffering, it emphasizes the intrinsic aesthetic beauty of gore, or is used as a metaphor of some kind (such as a metaphor for strong emotions, for instance).

References are your friend. It's what allows you to stay inspired by new forms of art so that your mind won't develop artist's block. Use Pinterest as your avenue of inspiration. Their algorithm is pretty damn good at picking up on what your interests are. For example, I've just gotten really engrossed into the Japanese art culture. They just kept on sending me an abundance of different, Japanese artwork. Some of them were AI generated, some were paintings, and some were sketches. Here's an example of mine, below:

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I have no shortage of inspiration when it comes to drawing, actually I usually find it really easy to come up with ideas (which annoys me a bit since I just end up collecting a million ideas that I'll never finish). I was more talking about using references in the sense of like... having some picture that's similar to what you want to draw in order to guide you. I.e. if one wanted to draw a panda for instance, most artists would look up pictures of pandas in the kind of pose they're envisioning in order to help them execute that idea (unless they draw a lot of pandas, in that case it's probably unnecessary). I don't really use references, and I think that hurts some of the technical aspects of my art.

Although I don't use Pinterest, I do follow a lot of artists on Twitter and occasionally check websites like Pixiv. Here are some artists I found recently whose work I really like:
https://twitter.com/the_ba97
https://twitter.com/wuwuren4
https://twitter.com/nousi_nasu
I find their work appealing both in terms of style and subject matter. I'd really like to be able to draw like they can.

On the other hand, you just need to discipline yourself and make time to work on and finish the things that you love to do. Break the drawing projects into small chunks if you think you don't have time to finish them in one day. Keep a daily planner on your pc and look for intervals that allow you to spend time working on these drawings.

I agree. I think I used to be better at this, but for the past 5 or 6 years I've been finding it increasingly difficult doing the things I need to do, let alone the things I want to do. Getting out of bed and going outside are constant challenges, I find it difficult to concentrate on things due to relentless intrusive thoughts, etc., but like... I understand why this is the case for me and I know that it always will be the case, because I don't want it to be any other way. It can only be this way, to be any other way would be to betray my personal immutable values - in other words, it would be pure delusion. Despite all the planning I've done for my future and my career, it has mostly been for the sake of taking my mind off the present. The real plan that I've had for the past few years has been to kill myself at some point during 2024. Ironically, the thought of suicide is what gets me through each day. I'm just waiting for the right time to minimize any damage to my brother.

I guess that was a long way to explain why I don't work on my hobbies often.