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Motivation

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After posting my pictures her for several weeks now, I realized that it was a really good idea to do that, even thou, like I wrote earlier in my journal, there are so many amazing artists here that my works can not compare. But since I got really nice feedback from my watchers and other artists, where some themselves do very pretty work, I get motivated by the day. Every day I get new inspiration and motivation to draw a picture. Thanks to this, I draw almost every day at least a little sketch and that helps me to improve my skills. I already see a difference in my pictures and I assume you do too, comparing my first works with what I posted recently.

So with this:

Thank you, thank you, thank you, community and watchers for motivating me!

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Annabell
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Astonishing Art

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I am quite astonished by all that beautiful and creative art here on deviantArt, so that I thought "uuh what can I add that matches this? My drawings are not that good, I do not even colour most of it, it looks unfinished!" Well these are my thoughts still, but I think I should just go on posting it here because I want to share what I created instead of letting it rott away in some files at home. Especially I wanted to share my story so it can be read. A story becomes a story by beeing read I think. If I tell it for myself its not a story but just a bundling up of imaginations and words.

So with this, have a look, take ideas and let yourself get inspired by my not so astonishing art :D

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Annabell
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Just something I was thinking about when looking around at DeviantArt. These digital works are amazing. Stunning. Perfect. But somewhat unpersonal. I do not enjoy drawing on the computer. I have a tablet and it works good I think, I do not have any other to compare to. I used Gimp that I think is enough, I do not have enought money to purchase photoshop and on top I do not know if I ever use it to its fullest so Gimp is just about right at the moment. I already painted some pictures but it took kinda long, my hand got numb and I really missed turning my sheet of paper into any direction comfortable. I had to stay on the computer and could not change location. I was bound to sit on the same table due I have a PC and no laptop. I want to use different tools, not only in a digitalized way. I want to feel the pen the pencil or whatever I draw with. Did you know there are about 5 ways to hold a pencil or more? You can not do that with a tablet. The next thing is, and here comes the unpersonal part, creating digital art is about knowing a programm, knowing how to use these tools given by the programm, how to use the layers. You can always switch back and forth. delete what you do not like. Go back to where you were before if you made a mistake. I really miss going back a step. You can not do that with traditional art, there you have to go on with the mistake you made or start over, and that makes you more cautionous and gives you improvement. So at a certain point digital art is pressing buttons and using the tools given. No offence to those who create digital art. I love it. I have tons of images of digital art on my computer. But the handwriting is missing, the personal touch, the person behind the drawing. Because everyone uses the same programm creating digital art, they often also use even the same tools. There are tutorials of how you create this and that effect and which tools to use and with everyone, they look almost exactly the same. The artists part is the sketch, proportion, composition and the sometimes the choice of colours. The rest is like pressing buttons, running a programm over it saying it hard. And therefor I draw with traditional tools to keep my own personal style, to improve it and to verify it. I am still learning. There is still much space to improve. Once you reach perfection its the end of road. Like if you come to the end of a game. You could keep playing. But there is no improvement anymore. So enjoy your unperfect drawings and paintings and go on. Enjoy creating it, thats how I do it. The result is not so important, important is, that you enjoyed putting the colour there, feeling the flow of the pencil on the paper, smelling ink or hearing the scratch of the feather.

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Annabell
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