drawing comms?

[ratcreature]

So, I always have this vague resolution that I should get back to daily drawing. I used to draw something almost every day once, not necessarily anything elaborate, sometimes just a doodle, but still -- then at some point that I don't even recall anymore I apparently turned into an inert sloth about that too (rather than just being a sloth with non-fun stuff).

Anyway, because of my chronic sloth-like condition my resolutions to draw more regularly never seem to work out so well, so I've been wondering whether there were any fandom communities for art to encourage daily drawing, like maybe with prompts or something? I think I've seen such comms for writing exercises? I just thought some more incentive or supportive framework or something like that might be useful to get back into the habit of doodling, or worth a try at least. Does anyone on my f-list know of such communities?

Comments

[ratcreature]

Yeah, it's really kind of pathetic. I once counted how many pages I used to get one simple crouched figure vaguely right for a post where I rambled about the progress of a drawing, and then was too embarrassed to post the real number and faked it down by only counting those that made some kind of progress, and it was still pathetic. My last attempt where I'm stuck is a piece of Roy Harper fanart whom I wanted to draw curled up showing him when he was a junkie, and I have like a folder full of google image searches showing wrecked drug addicts, another still lacking folder of images showing the interior of abandoned houses where squatters might be, and so far at least six pages of me trying to draw someone curled up like he is in my mind, and it is all just made of fail. A single scene. That I first planned to draw like over two years ago. *headdesk^infinity*

[gnatkip.livejournal.com]

Hee! :D Awww! I feel your pain, I do.

[ratcreature]

It's at least a small consolation that I'm not alone with that kind of thing.