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Hello all!

It's been awhile, hasn't it? lol, I wonder if any watchers are still around.

It's been a difficult artistic journey as of late. Recently, I have been extraordinarily frustrated with the whole process for my art. Nothing seemed to be good enough or I wasn't seeing progress, or I'd be jealous of other artists for making strides while it seemed that I was stuck making the same mistakes and falling behind.

Like I said, it has been difficult.

Difficult to the point of refusing to turn on Photoshop, or even check in here on Deviant Art. I was too frustrated and too down on myself for not making art to log in. I'd make excuses to avoid thinking about it. I got pretty close to walking away from fine art completely.

Oddly enough, I would find myself still sketching. All throughout my recent artist alley season, I've been sketching (good heavens, some of those artist alleys were so BORING that I would have lost my mind if I hadn't sketched pages of stuff!). But I would still avoid Photoshop with the excuse that I was stuck, or that it was pointless because I couldn't be as good as the beautiful art I see here.

Which brings me to four days ago. I knew that it was going to be a dear friend's birthday on Saturday and I've usually give her a drawing gift of some sort. I felt really bad that I wasn't going to have a pretty art for the occasion. So, three days ago, I decided to try sketching something for a gift. Two days ago, I had a sketch and decided boot up Photoshop for the first time in months.

The inking process was horrible. All the time that I had been away from art have resulted in my skills on Photoshop deteriorating. I had considered tossing my hands up in the air and walking away when I had a realization:

My skills would never get better unless I used them. If I wanted to improve my art, there was nothing else to do but sit down and DO the work.

Consequently, that original sketch with the horrible ink job was deleted and I decided to try again from scratch.

There's a lot of work to be done as I look as the above piece. I'm nowhere near where I want to be artistically, but thank goodness I'm not where I was.

Happy, happy birthday to !!! So sorry that I was late this year, but better late than never, yes? *throws glitter*

Edward Elric and Fullmetal Alchemist (c) Hiromu Arakawa
Art (c) A. Dubbert
Please do not steal, copy, alter, trace, distribute, or reproduce in any way, shape, or form without distinct permission from me. Thank you.

Description
Hello all!

It's been awhile, hasn't it? lol, I wonder if any watchers are still around.

It's been a difficult artistic journey as of late. Recently, I have been extraordinarily frustrated with the whole process for my art. Nothing seemed to be good enough or I wasn't seeing progress, or I'd be jealous of other artists for making strides while it seemed that I was stuck making the same mistakes and falling behind.

Like I said, it has been difficult.

Difficult to the point of refusing to turn on Photoshop, or even check in here on Deviant Art. I was too frustrated and too down on myself for not making art to log in. I'd make excuses to avoid thinking about it. I got pretty close to walking away from fine art completely.

Oddly enough, I would find myself still sketching. All throughout my recent artist alley season, I've been sketching (good heavens, some of those artist alleys were so BORING that I would have lost my mind if I hadn't sketched pages of stuff!). But I would still avoid Photoshop with the excuse that I was stuck, or that it was pointless because I couldn't be as good as the beautiful art I see here.

Which brings me to four days ago. I knew that it was going to be a dear friend's birthday on Saturday and I've usually give her a drawing gift of some sort. I felt really bad that I wasn't going to have a pretty art for the occasion. So, three days ago, I decided to try sketching something for a gift. Two days ago, I had a sketch and decided boot up Photoshop for the first time in months.

The inking process was horrible. All the time that I had been away from art have resulted in my skills on Photoshop deteriorating. I had considered tossing my hands up in the air and walking away when I had a realization:

My skills would never get better unless I used them. If I wanted to improve my art, there was nothing else to do but sit down and DO the work.

Consequently, that original sketch with the horrible ink job was deleted and I decided to try again from scratch.

There's a lot of work to be done as I look as the above piece. I'm nowhere near where I want to be artistically, but thank goodness I'm not where I was.

Happy, happy birthday to !!! So sorry that I was late this year, but better late than never, yes? *throws glitter*

Edward Elric and Fullmetal Alchemist (c) Hiromu Arakawa
Art (c) A. Dubbert
Please do not steal, copy, alter, trace, distribute, or reproduce in any way, shape, or form without distinct permission from me. Thank you.