Hi folks,
This year has been a crap one and I should think it has been real hard for some people.
But I hope that you all manage to have a happy xmas and a merry new year,
And with any luck next year will be a brilliant one for all of ya :).
Take care ya’ll,
MJ
You too m'love . Great seeing you back & love the vibrant drawing ! Cat x
Love the drawing,freakin hysterical.I needed a good laugh after a year like this one.
Happy Holidays to u as well.
Here's to 2021' being better🤔
Thank you, hippo :).
I was thinking that we will never get an xmas like this again if of course it is stopped.
So I wanted to draw a picture, which I got printed onto greeting cards, that resembled a covid xmas.
It’s a caricature of me wearing the mask but I love the fact that I am saying “merry christmas” but some of the letters are blotted out signifying that it is a struggle to hear people clearly when they are wearing a mask.
I just wish I drew a candy cane-style vaccine syringe as well :).
It's great..and gives us a laugh that is needed.
Fabulous ! that really is some talent and new "cartoon" style I haven't seen you do before
Thanks :).But technically the cartoon-style was how I always drew since I was little.
As I got older and matured, I wanted to draw for the superhero comics.
But in 2010 I joined a disabled group and I showed off my drawings to the ladies who run it and they were impressed.
They enjoy art as well and they have a friend who is an artist and they brought this friend over to meet me who tutored me on my art and made it a lot better.
You will get to see some of my great work once again :).
Love this, I was just having a little cry, but this put a smile on my face 🥰
Hiya Matt : ) Not been on here for a while but I try to remember at Christmas. Lovely to see you are keeping up the great art work. All the best to you and yours x
Hi Angelite,
It has been a while now.
I haven’t been very active on here in ages either.
During the lockdowns, I’ve lost a bit of motivation to keep up with my art and have been doing other things here and there.
I am actually in the middle of doing a commission for a friend of mine, she wants me to draw her nephew.
I have drawn some of it but can’t really be bothered to finish it :).
I told her that I should have it done by next year and then we can meet at a café (if they allow us to go out) and do business there :).
But I did have motivation to draw the xmas card.
Well, the thing was, the xmas card was quicker to finish. It’s mostly a sketch and .i used watercolour pencils which are quicker to use as well.
The graphite drawings I do can take weeks.
But this friend’s nephew is taking months cos of lockdown :).
That’s a big project to have a commission, I’d be nervous about doing it for someone.
I understand you losing motivation and it’s been hard with everything changes and not knowing what will happen next with the pandemic.
Have you tried doing rough sketches to give you an idea of what the portrait will look like?
Also you can finish it more quickly and get feedback for your art?
Good luck x
I”ve done a few drawings for this friend a few times now and she loves my work :).
I’ve already started the drawing but am ploughing through it slowly but surely :).
And I have been through this situation of losing motivation before only back then it was worse and the other thing we weren’t in any lockdown either!
In 2000 and 2001 I was going to college but had to drop out early.
My GP told me that I was unfit for work so I decided to stay at home as I had no intentions of working anyhow.
It was very boring being at home and this is how I lost a lot of motivation, a lot of confidence and I was very antisocial too. And this lasted for about 6 years!
I used to draw all the time but obviously during those grim 6 years I stopped drawing.
Anyhow, 2007 I found out about Headway, joined them, confidence and motivation started to come back.
By 2008 I was drawing again.
In 2010 I joined another disabled group and friends at this group were able to tutor me on my art and helped me improve on my art :).
That’s a lovely story and well done for getting through those six years.
It’s really hard being told that you’re unfit for work and I’m not surprised you lost motivation.
I’m glad you’ve found the right sort of people who can help with your art, because you’re really talented.
Thank you, cakes :).
It was hard getting thought those 6 years and I often thought “Is this it? Is this how the rest of my life is going to be? Doing nothing”
Being told that I was unfit for work was, for me, pretty good in some ways.
As I said, I had no intentions of getting a job anyway.
I don’t think I ever really wanted to have a job... not a mediocre one anyhow.
When I was at college I only chose Art GNVQ and English as my main subjects and so I had a lot of free time in between but my confidence was already low and I didn’t really do a lot in my time.
But work was being piled onto me and this wasn’t doing me any good, I would come home at the end of the day shattered which was why I had to leave college early in the end.
I did learn a few things hear and there though through the art I was doing.
When I started staying at home, I was doing some art but like I say motivation went and I stopped drawing.
Yes me too I was devastated when they say you can’t work. And I don’t want to do mediocre job neither, I’ve got too much education to go backwards. Actually I’d do any job I could but it’d all be too difficult for me.
I did English too but it’s hard when they give you lots of course work. I can’t read literature anymore but I read slowly easy books.
Well done for finding the art.
Happy Christmas and New Year Matt - great drawing! 😊
Thank you, girl :).Hope you had a nice xmas and may next year be much better :).
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