dividedbyblue: Black and white drawing of a paper swan. Its reflection in the water is a swan of flesh and blood. (Default)
Dawn ([personal profile] dividedbyblue) wrote in [personal profile] florianschild 2025-04-29 07:47 pm (UTC)

Looks beautiful, I especially love how you colored the girl with the flowers. Her skin really looks nice! Good choice too on the blue for her hair and dress.

Perfectionism can be a real obstacle… I’ve also dealt with it for most of my life. In my artistic work, for a long time, I was also worried about drawing in a sketchbook, because what if the next drawing messes up the whole sketchbook (or so I thought)?. Or if I started drawing consistently for a while and I made a good drawing, I would get intimidated by it. I started panicking, for surely I wouldn’t be able to make something of the same quality again. Then I stopped drawing for a while because I couldn’t handle this feeling. Nowadays, I am better at handling this, fortunately. When I make a drawing that doesn’t work, I throw it away and start again with the same image as a base, maybe drawn from a different angle or a slightly different reference. Usually, that fixes it.

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