DLalmond

It came back outta nowhere—just last week—when I got a new iPad (w/a pencil and an art app). After years of completing almost no pieces, I’ve now finished seven or so— just this weekend! Pinching myself. Not asking ANY questions. Just going with it.😎

Well, I never got around to experimenting with other mediums/styles.  Unfortunately, I seem to have lost my artistic mojo and am just tired of pressuring myself about trying to draw when I really don't feel like it.  Somewhere along the way art turned into work for me and I can't seem to get out of that space no matter how hard I try or how hard I wish things to be different.  I just don't seem to have the passion for my art that I once had and it turns out that the initial enthusiasm I had when I first came to DA has worn off.  I'd really hoped that a fire had been reignited for me but time hasn't shown that to be the case.  So, here I am.

I'm finding myself wondering whether I want to continue the same kind of work I've done so far.  I mean, I love realism but I'm somehow feeling I want to improvise a bit more right now.  I've no idea what that means exactly but there it is. I've been working on another realism portrait and frankly I'm bored out of my skull.  I want to do something a bit more individualistic...I don't even know if that's the right word.  I dunno...it just seems to me that anyone with the ability could reproduce a photo but it takes something more to go beyond that. I don't want to seem to be putting any other realism artists down with my restlessness in this