ratcreature | 2009 art roundup

There wasn't a lot this year, not even if I count all drawbles and icons and such, i.e. I can't even do the meme thing with the squares of one preview picture for every month.

January
a Numb3rs Don and Charlie ratcreature icon

February
Nothing. :(

March
Diricawl (Harry Potter fanart)

April
a fail! ratcreature icon

May
Five drawbles: 1-3, 4, 5
Robin (DC fanart)
Nightwing (DC fanart)

June
an Uhura ratcreature icon
a weird comment doodle for Kass' story Zygote (SGA/Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex* (but were afraid to ask) fusion fanart)
Star Trek Reboot art meme (Star Trek: Reboot fanart)

July
Nothing. :(

August
Nothing. :(

September
Nothing. :(

October
Nothing. :(

November
Nothing. :(
(I did work on my Yuletart assignment that month, though I only finished in December with an extension)

December
Twelve drawbles: 1-6, 7-10, 11-12
Santa!Cthulhu
and the not yet revealed

yuletart art.

This is even less than 2008, and it's not like I was prolific then. I suck. :(

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And me! I wrote hardly anything this year, and many people on my flist are posting annual roundups that say things like, "I only wrote 100,000 words in 2009 - not as many as last year" and it's making me feel inadequate! Ah well, here's to being more prolific in 2010.

It's nice to hear i'm not alone in feeling inadequate. Yesterday I saw an art roundup by someone who explained they were less prolific than the year before, but the number was that they had "only" done 60 pieces of fanart, not counting the quick drawings they did at a convention. And I was o.O! 60?! When my inofficial resolution last year (that I rather failed) was to maybe have one drawing to show for every month this year.

Please tell me your self ratings depend on more than the one criterion: prolificness.

I'm sorry you didn't meet your standards for output this year, but it saddens me to see you being so harsh with yourself about it...

That's very kind. The problem is I'm not too thrilled about the quality either. I mean, one reason I don't draw a lot in the first place is that whenever I start something (aside from drawbles where I allow myself to just draw quickly), I have this litany of "you suck. this looks awful. this doesn't look like you want. yikes this is horrible. this does not work. you can't draw." in endless variations in my head, that leads to me not drawing at all.

I know that the only way to get better is to practice, and considering what some people who are actually paid to draw produce I also realize intellectually that my drawings could be worse (I mean just recently someone on my flist again linked to a blog post titled The Worst Rob Liefeld drawings, and those are truly scarring and not in a good edgy art way), but that doesn't help with feeling like a failure, simply because my drawings never look like I want them to, but I am just not skilled enough to make the image on the paper match the ideas in my head. I mean, it is weird perfectionism of the most irrational and unhelpful kind, that doesn't even inspire me to try harder or anything, but it is not as if you can turn your neuroses off unfortunately.

I have very similar feelings about my writing, and so far, the most valuable thing I have done is join exchanges. Then not only is there a deadline, but a moral imperative to finish the piece of crap and send it in.

It doesn't stop the stupid self-criticism, but it does make me finish more things.

Be nice to yourself when you can!

Hi creature its angela, HAPPY NEW YEARS!

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Thank you. Happy New Year to you as well.

2009 art roundup

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