So a while ago I got my hands on a Wacom S drawing tablet because I really wanted to start drawing digitally so that maybe I can develop the needed art skills for animation but what sucks is that I am barely even using the thing and I dislike drawing on paper.
I know there are a lot skills I need to know as well if I want to get good at animation and storytelling but the one thing I learned from the animators survival kit is that learning the fundamentals of drawing is the first thing one needs to do.
So I tried teaching myself to draw which was things like human anatomy using reference+studying but most of the time I was drawing boring geometric shapes because I can't think of anything else to besides what I have read/watched in numerous tutorials.
I have heard of people watching a ton of tutorials regarding art which causes them to get stuck but that is not the issue for me and I do have a few animation/art youtubers I appreciate and those are mainly Drawing with Jazza or Toniko patonja.
I have the drawing with Jazza pdf file on my pc which I sometimes read, I have also read the animators survival kit and both are absolutely amazing art resources.
I am not sure what I am lacking if it's creativity/motivation or if it's something else.
I am not really all that concerned if the quality of my art sucks or not because I could not care less about that or what others think because what matters to me is that I am able to improve my art skills.
The problem is that most of the time I just end up doing something else like analysing malware on virtual machines which is my newest special interest or listening to loud orchestral music on repeat while doing the above mentioned task instead of dedicating my time to using my drawing tablet with Krita.
What is also kind of keeping me from actually doing digital art is that things just feel slow in terms of improvement and it really decreases my motivation for example if I draw a basic human figure I just draw the basic structure and put little to no effort into much besides the basics which can just be broken down into basic shapes and the rest I simply don't care about improving for example the eyes or ears nor do I feel like searching up and downloading reference images which always just end up cluttering my computer desktop after I forgot I even had said reference image on my computer in the first place.
I know I could be drawing the same stuff over and over again to improve it but I just don't feel like drawing the same thing hundreds of times to improve because I am just lazy and want to move on with what else I am doing at the moment.
I have no real favourite artists online but I have been looking for one.
What I want to make is art/animation with characters that may look cutesy on the outside but with stories/subject matter that are incredibly dark and depressing sort of like shows such as Happy tree friends where it starts out looking like a normal kids show but things quickly go south really fast but I am not sure what are the artists that make that kind of art online.
Am I alone feeling like this with art and animation in general as somebody with ASD?
I know there are a lot skills I need to know as well if I want to get good at animation and storytelling but the one thing I learned from the animators survival kit is that learning the fundamentals of drawing is the first thing one needs to do.
So I tried teaching myself to draw which was things like human anatomy using reference+studying but most of the time I was drawing boring geometric shapes because I can't think of anything else to besides what I have read/watched in numerous tutorials.
I have heard of people watching a ton of tutorials regarding art which causes them to get stuck but that is not the issue for me and I do have a few animation/art youtubers I appreciate and those are mainly Drawing with Jazza or Toniko patonja.
I have the drawing with Jazza pdf file on my pc which I sometimes read, I have also read the animators survival kit and both are absolutely amazing art resources.
I am not sure what I am lacking if it's creativity/motivation or if it's something else.
I am not really all that concerned if the quality of my art sucks or not because I could not care less about that or what others think because what matters to me is that I am able to improve my art skills.
The problem is that most of the time I just end up doing something else like analysing malware on virtual machines which is my newest special interest or listening to loud orchestral music on repeat while doing the above mentioned task instead of dedicating my time to using my drawing tablet with Krita.
What is also kind of keeping me from actually doing digital art is that things just feel slow in terms of improvement and it really decreases my motivation for example if I draw a basic human figure I just draw the basic structure and put little to no effort into much besides the basics which can just be broken down into basic shapes and the rest I simply don't care about improving for example the eyes or ears nor do I feel like searching up and downloading reference images which always just end up cluttering my computer desktop after I forgot I even had said reference image on my computer in the first place.
I know I could be drawing the same stuff over and over again to improve it but I just don't feel like drawing the same thing hundreds of times to improve because I am just lazy and want to move on with what else I am doing at the moment.
I have no real favourite artists online but I have been looking for one.
What I want to make is art/animation with characters that may look cutesy on the outside but with stories/subject matter that are incredibly dark and depressing sort of like shows such as Happy tree friends where it starts out looking like a normal kids show but things quickly go south really fast but I am not sure what are the artists that make that kind of art online.
Am I alone feeling like this with art and animation in general as somebody with ASD?