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Once again I feel as if my muse could do with a bit of a kick up the backside and I had so much fun doing the last batch of sketch trades that I'm going to open them up again.

First come first serve!

1. ToLoveaKiwi
2. chosaguro
3. Witnessedwitt
4. SurfMutt

I joined Tumblr recently.. as if I need something to help me waste more time on the internet.

Anyway my URL is littlefishbecca, please tell me yours if you have one and I will follow you!

Thats all I have to say really

Night night

I need to get my creativity back into gear so I think some quickish trades might help.

I'll take three slots, anyone up for it? First come first serve!

1. Innali
2. Jorjuh
3. Malamutts

Bec

Hey all.

I feel like I have to share this with you guys.. maybe some of you experience the same as me.

When I first started making 'art' (I hesitate to label my creations from years back as art), I had so much motivation. I would stay up til 4am finishing things and finished on average about two pictures a week.

Now I find it impossible to finish anything. It's not that I don't have ideas- I have about 4/5 partly finished files loaded up on SAI as I write but I find it so hard to find the motivation to get on with them and actually finish them off.

I think maybe what's happened is that I've become a perfectionist. When I was drawing a few years ago, I'd have to accept that an image wouldn't come out the way I wanted it to and move on from that. Now, however, I'm becoming increasingly able to draw up a sketch that comes out the way I want it and I think this creates problems because I spend ages and ages sitting and looking at it, trying to think of how best to do justice to something I'm proud of. I'm also keen to try out different ideas for colouring, shading etc. but I can never really decide on one way to do a piece and end up changing my mind after I've spent hours working on it. I'm usually too lazy to go back and start again with whatever I'm unhappy with and so I reach gridlock with a piece that could have come out really well.

This is coupled with the fact that I find it very hard not to stray onto Facebook, dA or whatever site whilst I'm working on a piece. My concentration skills are terrible.

One solution which I've considered is opening up commissions. Not only could I do with a bit of extra money, but I also think that the pressure of money being involved would help me to get my head down and finish pieces of art. This, of course, is dependent on whether anybody would actually want to buy my work!

Anyway, I'm just musing. Does anyone else feel like this? I've been like this for the past year at least, it's so frustrating.

I think it's finally time I took my depressing last journal entry off my front page..

Anyway, I've been so absent from here lately! (Or more like for the past three or so years..) Because I haven't been on here much, I think I've missed a lot of good artwork. So my request for you guys is this: who should I be watching? Please recommend me some good artists, I'd love to discover some new talent!

I hope everyone is doing well, I've missed you guys

Bec