At 2/27/24 12:09 AM, Thetageist wrote:I have… so much stuff I have told other people I’m going to do…
Do art trades, write stories, make an animation for a friend, make that game for the Pokémon collab…

And yet I think I’ve lost my motivation to do any of it. I don’t know why. Maybe it has to do with the fact that the majority of the time I try to do stuff, I either crash and burn or get ignored completely. It doesn’t feel worth it anymore, right? It doesn’t feel like I’m worth it.

At 2/27/24 08:43 AM, CrosEl wrote:I know what kind of site this is, but I want to say this anyway:

I actually got scouted once, then the very next day someone went out their way to "unscout" (?) me.. The reason I say that is because my art is mostly unnoticed and a buddy thought it was OK but just not seen, and so someone saw it that night and went through that trouble...and that was discouraging...

What makes it worse that in the years afterwards; someone told me that literal scribbles and copies of the same artwork (with different colorations) has been posted over and over in the scouted space. This KEEPS happening, and so nobody's reporting or unscouting them. I was discouraged, but also wondering if people can get away with that, then is something messed up going on? Why can someone spam scribbles to "take over" and nothing happens to them, but I was kicked away so fast?

Yeah, it's discouraging, maddening and why I don't take Newgrounds seriously now

At 2/27/24 12:09 AM, Thetageist wrote:I have… so much stuff I have told other people I’m going to do…
Do art trades, write stories, make an animation for a friend, make that game for the Pokémon collab…

And yet I think I’ve lost my motivation to do any of it. I don’t know why. Maybe it has to do with the fact that the majority of the time I try to do stuff, I either crash and burn or get ignored completely. It doesn’t feel worth it anymore, right? It doesn’t feel like I’m worth it.

At 9/6/23 08:32 AM, Thetageist wrote:Hello!

I was seeing a lot of threads in this forum related to losing motivation, impostor syndrome, and feeling like you’re not enough as an artist. Considering that a lot of the original posters struggled with the same emotions, I wanted to create one place where all the artists who are struggling can talk to each other and see that they’re not alone in their problems, and the others who have come out the other side of those problems can offer advice to every artist, rather than repeating themselves across different threads.

So please, feel free to vent or to share your experiences and advice. You never know who’s going to need it.

At 2/27/24 08:06 PM, soapchuwa wrote:

At 9/6/23 08:32 AM, Thetageist wrote:Hello!

I was seeing a lot of threads in this forum related to losing motivation, impostor syndrome, and feeling like you’re not enough as an artist. Considering that a lot of the original posters struggled with the same emotions, I wanted to create one place where all the artists who are struggling can talk to each other and see that they’re not alone in their problems, and the others who have come out the other side of those problems can offer advice to every artist, rather than repeating themselves across different threads.

So please, feel free to vent or to share your experiences and advice. You never know who’s going to need it.

This is gonna sound really corny and like selfish and stuff but I feel like I'm not in a good spot for ng rn
Everything I make is way too inconsistent, and I can rarely make anything because of how little ideas I have
I'm also just constantly worried that the stuff I make isn't as good as my early stuff or my most recent art
I also just feel like my artstyle doesn't really fit in with the rest or it's just not as impressive especially since most of my stuff is kind of overshadowed by all of the great artists out there
my main problem really is lack of ideas, I have like 1 good idea every 5 weeks

At 2/28/24 08:22 AM, soapchuwa wrote:

Perhaps the first step to having more ideas is to stop self-censoring them. You don’t know they won’t look good until you try them out.

giving me the privilege to basically draw whatever I want is a very irresponsible thing to bestow apon me

At 2/28/24 08:22 AM, soapchuwa wrote:

Perhaps the first step to having more ideas is to stop self-censoring them. You don’t know they won’t look good until you try them out.

giving me the privilege to basically draw whatever I want is a very irresponsible thing to bestow apon me

At 2/28/24 09:28 AM, EmsDeLaRoZ wrote:

At 2/28/24 08:22 AM, soapchuwa wrote:

Perhaps the first step to having more ideas is to stop self-censoring them. You don’t know they won’t look good until you try them out.

giving me the privilege to basically draw whatever I want is a very irresponsible thing to bestow apon me

Hey, I've done it that way since forever and look at me. I'm far beyond salvation now

At 2/28/24 10:13 AM, soapchuwa wrote:

At 2/28/24 09:28 AM, EmsDeLaRoZ wrote:

At 2/28/24 08:22 AM, soapchuwa wrote:

Perhaps the first step to having more ideas is to stop self-censoring them. You don’t know they won’t look good until you try them out.

giving me the privilege to basically draw whatever I want is a very irresponsible thing to bestow apon me

Hey, I've done it that way since forever and look at me. I'm far beyond salvation now

you have no idea who i am

At 2/28/24 11:02 AM, EmsDeLaRoZ wrote:

At 2/28/24 10:13 AM, soapchuwa wrote:

At 2/28/24 09:28 AM, EmsDeLaRoZ wrote:

At 2/28/24 08:22 AM, soapchuwa wrote:

Perhaps the first step to having more ideas is to stop self-censoring them. You don’t know they won’t look good until you try them out.

giving me the privilege to basically draw whatever I want is a very irresponsible thing to bestow apon me

Hey, I've done it that way since forever and look at me. I'm far beyond salvation now

you have no idea who i am

Yes, but I have an idea of who you aren't

At 2/28/24 11:26 AM, soapchuwa wrote:

At 2/28/24 11:02 AM, EmsDeLaRoZ wrote:

At 2/28/24 10:13 AM, soapchuwa wrote:

At 2/28/24 09:28 AM, EmsDeLaRoZ wrote:

At 2/28/24 08:22 AM, soapchuwa wrote:

Perhaps the first step to having more ideas is to stop self-censoring them. You don’t know they won’t look good until you try them out.

giving me the privilege to basically draw whatever I want is a very irresponsible thing to bestow apon me

Hey, I've done it that way since forever and look at me. I'm far beyond salvation now

you have no idea who i am

Yes, but I have an idea of who you aren't

Elaborate

At 2/27/24 11:52 AM, DioShiba wrote:

At 2/27/24 08:43 AM, CrosEl wrote:I know what kind of site this is, but I want to say this anyway:

I actually got scouted once, then the very next day someone went out their way to "unscout" (?) me.. The reason I say that is because my art is mostly unnoticed and a buddy thought it was OK but just not seen, and so someone saw it that night and went through that trouble...and that was discouraging...

What makes it worse that in the years afterwards; someone told me that literal scribbles and copies of the same artwork (with different colorations) has been posted over and over in the scouted space. This KEEPS happening, and so nobody's reporting or unscouting them. I was discouraged, but also wondering if people can get away with that, then is something messed up going on? Why can someone spam scribbles to "take over" and nothing happens to them, but I was kicked away so fast?

Yeah, it's discouraging, maddening and why I don't take Newgrounds seriously now

Out of curiousity I would like to see the works you made in question and the person who is claimed copied your work.

Because if thats true then that's not right and should be looked into.

At 3/22/24 03:23 PM, switzrr wrote:Was gonna make this post its own thread in the Collab board, but since it doesn't talk about starting a collab it might get removed. Also there's no General board, so I scrolled through multiple pages of the Art board to find this thread again. Here goes:

Does anyone know if I can contribute to an NG collab in some way if I don't have any creative talents or passions? (Sketch Collab doesn't count because they let just about anyone in)

I just want to make myself useful to this community, but in order to do that I need to be a "creative" of some sort. Let's go over the different disciplines:

At 3/22/24 05:48 PM, EmsDeLaRoZ wrote:Unironically, is not necessary that you are artistically capable to be useful for the community. Referencing myself, I have this series of blog posts called "Recommended Artists" in which I recommend various talented but lowly known artists to people. Also, there are many users who have never done anything artistic, yet are very well known in the community, mainly due to their presence in the BBS. You can also consider making a podcast, among some other few ideas

At 3/22/24 08:46 PM, switzrr wrote:

At 3/22/24 05:48 PM, EmsDeLaRoZ wrote:Unironically, is not necessary that you are artistically capable to be useful for the community. Referencing myself, I have this series of blog posts called "Recommended Artists" in which I recommend various talented but lowly known artists to people. Also, there are many users who have never done anything artistic, yet are very well known in the community, mainly due to their presence in the BBS. You can also consider making a podcast, among some other few ideas

So that's it? I'm just supposed to accept that I'll never have any kind of creative skill?

At 3/22/24 03:23 PM, switzrr wrote:Was gonna make this post its own thread in the Collab board, but since it doesn't talk about starting a collab it might get removed. Also there's no General board, so I scrolled through multiple pages of the Art board to find this thread again. Here goes:

Does anyone know if I can contribute to an NG collab in some way if I don't have any creative talents or passions? (Sketch Collab doesn't count because they let just about anyone in)

I just want to make myself useful to this community, but in order to do that I need to be a "creative" of some sort. Let's go over the different disciplines:

At 3/22/24 09:03 PM, Awd91 wrote:Also really try not to compare yourself to the art journeys of other people because you're prolly only seeing the tip of the iceburg in terms of their body of work. I know for me i've been actually trying at drawing since 2009 and literally only the last couple years has it felt like i can make what i wanna

At 1/9/24 07:16 PM, switzrr wrote:I guess I should be more specific; one of my goals is to be featured in one of the collabs that require you to be a talented animator, like these for example:

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/836292
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/765377
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/723282

Then again, even if I was a talented animator and made it into one of these I feel like I still wouldn't be satisfied considering I've seen many people featured in these collabs who are younger than I am

At 3/23/24 09:05 PM, switzrr wrote:

At 3/22/24 09:03 PM, Awd91 wrote:Also really try not to compare yourself to the art journeys of other people because you're prolly only seeing the tip of the iceburg in terms of their body of work. I know for me i've been actually trying at drawing since 2009 and literally only the last couple years has it felt like i can make what i wanna

PewDiePie became better at drawing after 30 days of 10-20 minutes a day (5-10 collective hours) than I have after 3.5 years of ~1 hour a week (~182 collective hours); I feel like that's probably a sign of some sort and not a good one

At 3/23/24 09:07 PM, switzrr wrote:

At 3/23/24 07:50 AM, DioShiba wrote:Look for collabs that aren't asking for effort.

Those are the fun ones

As I said before,

At 1/9/24 07:16 PM, switzrr wrote:
I guess I should be more specific; one of my goals is to be featured in one of the collabs that require you to be a talented animator, like these for example:

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/836292
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/765377
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/723282

Then again, even if I was a talented animator and made it into one of these I feel like I still wouldn't be satisfied considering I've seen many people featured in these collabs who are younger than I am

I went to your art gallery, and I see most of your art lacks form consistency. By this I mean heads seem shapeless, arms length and legs length is off, some joints like ankles, wrists or neck behave weirdly. Even weirder is that in some of your art you happen to nail this things, but in later works you make the same mistakes, which makes me think that the times you nailed your mistakes were either a 1 in 100 chances or you were just tracing over other pics (I say the last thing because some of your works seem suspiciously familiar to me).

At 3/23/24 10:53 PM, DioShiba wrote:That's where you are better off at joining things that require low effort then gradually build up your skills at animating or drawing and then building a reel or portfolio with yoir best work, then you will have a shot at achieving your goal of being featured in the bigger collabs. Ask for feedback on where you can improve and be that guy people want to work with.

At 3/24/24 12:40 AM, switzrr wrote:

At 3/23/24 10:53 PM, DioShiba wrote:That's where you are better off at joining things that require low effort then gradually build up your skills at animating or drawing and then building a reel or portfolio with yoir best work, then you will have a shot at achieving your goal of being featured in the bigger collabs. Ask for feedback on where you can improve and be that guy people want to work with.

I have asked for feedback and the main pointers I got were "have more variety in line weight, turn off anti-aliasing when using the Fill tool, improve stroke confidence, work on anatomy, etc."

If you are passionate about what you do, then you do.

That's the problem; I'm not passionate about anything.

At 3/24/24 10:31 AM, DioShiba wrote:Then your problem runs a lot deeper than lacking motivation that may require you to seek a therapist.

I'm not saying that to knock you down, Rather its because having been down that path where I lost passion or interest in anything was because I was in a pretty big rough spot in life where I felt lost. To me, that's what your problem sounds like.

If you lack a passion in something then you need to start asking yourself some very hard questions that only you can get the answers for and some professional help might be able to promote you to figure out those answers.

Something to consider. But if you keep contradicting yourself by saying you want to do these things and don't put the work in to do it then there isn't much that we can do to offer advice and that's going to be counter-intuitive for you. That's just the reality of it.

At 3/24/24 02:59 PM, switzrr wrote:

At 3/24/24 02:22 AM, Blaznthekid wrote:What is it that you're looking for/to do exactly?

Basically to be good at something for once, as well as to contribute to a high-quality collab in some form

At 3/24/24 10:31 AM, DioShiba wrote:
Then your problem runs a lot deeper than lacking motivation that may require you to seek a therapist.

I'm not saying that to knock you down, Rather its because having been down that path where I lost passion or interest in anything was because I was in a pretty big rough spot in life where I felt lost. To me, that's what your problem sounds like.

If you lack a passion in something then you need to start asking yourself some very hard questions that only you can get the answers for and some professional help might be able to promote you to figure out those answers.

Something to consider. But if you keep contradicting yourself by saying you want to do these things and don't put the work in to do it then there isn't much that we can do to offer advice and that's going to be counter-intuitive for you. That's just the reality of it.

I have talked to my therapist about this sort of thing, and his advice included "passions are built, not found" and "if your only interests are consuming media and you feel like you need to be a 'creator' of some sort in order to feel fulfilled then maybe you could consume media in a productive way by being a media critic" (which does not interest me at all)