Show and Tell Friday: Lonely Artist Rehab!

Posting this ahead of time since this friday, I'll be at Blizzcon!

So lately I've been trying to get back into being social. A lot of artsy crap I've been doing is solitary, and subsequently, I get lonely. One of the big chats I used to go to I haven't been engaged in since I work when most of the members are active. I've fallen off every forum I've ever posted, and I even fell off my art communities.

Bad Erika!

I don't know why, but when I browse art, it almost NEVER occurs to me to comment on it. I respond to it in my head, but I realized today I never really give any feedback.

So I added getting more social to the list of shit I want to do. While it's probably a good thing I don't spend lots of time reading threads and looking at fanart, it sucks that I miss the people I've known for upwards of 10 years on the internet. And I want to keep those relationships. And I want my art to have playmates - other people's art - like I did in college.

I finally had a free friday night on the 16th, which happened to be Ellen's Sketchfest, a 24 hour sketch challenge where folks posts prompts, and other folks draw sketches/art based on those prompts. There's a groovy little comment system too. The two pics here are my two sketches for the prompts Lonely Souls and Poison Ivy. It was refreshing to just... draw something. I didn't have to set time aside for it, didn't have to plan it, I just got to DO it. Which is a rare thing for me these days. Seeing other artist's interpretations also was refreshing to my creative guts.

So I hope I can continue with this, mingling, and keep up the spontaneous art and connection with something resembling a community. Time management is my main downfall, but when sometimes... it doesn't have to be.