Creative Gripes Thread

Discussion in 'Make It So' started by KingStarscream, Jan 24, 2018.

  1. KingStarscream

    KingStarscream watch_dogs walking advertisement

    Got that picture that just won't work with you? Stuck on a scene where the characters won't move on and do the important stuff alright? Still in the outlining section and dying because you have no idea what to do with this? Just stuck, in general, with a creative block that won't lift? Come complain about it!

    The only ground rule I'm slapping on this thread is that since it is a whine thread, to some degree, advice is wonderful but pure venting is more than okay too. Sometimes you just want to yell about how garbage your sketches are without help (and sometimes you really really need the help) so ideally, this thread should function as both.

    (Also, like, feel free to whine about every other creative venture here too--cosplay props aren't working out, or that really neat sculpture idea you had that's not playing nice, or the thread is ATTACKING YOU... it's all good for here!)
     
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  2. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    I've been having a constant tradeoff between ideas-but-no-time and time-but-no-motivation for both art and writing for months :/ Every so often I can brute-force something through, and sometimes I feel the momentum starting to pick up again, but either real life gets out of control or I just get exhausted and everything slips away from me again.

    And additional gripe of that I love writing in second person, and I know it can be a turnoff outside of homestuck, and it's taken time to kinda sorta establish myself in transformers, but now I'm looking at dipping my toes into a new fandom, and... disheartening. I know it hurts my views and have decided to stick with it anyways, and I try to adjust for the way that lack of response saps my motivation, but still. Disheartening.
     
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  3. winterykite

    winterykite Non-newtonian genderfluid

    Me: has a million general plot ideas
    Also me: starts trying to write
    also me: how does this work again?

    I thought it'd be easier for me to write mistfisher when i had outlined what i wanted in each episode, but suddenly i can't even write a single scene because apparently i need to do all of it in chronological order so i know what i can already reference and what to foreshadow and AUGH
    here i stand and want to be an author but my words per day output is nonexistent because i've forgotten how humans work. (honestly i never knew, but how do you even write people who are not you? the closest i've managed are VMs and rn those are laggy as shit)
    and i outline a character to someone else and they can just pick up on that and extrapolate on that and i... i can't. doesn't work, skill not unlocked, not enough mana, script crit errors out, instructions unclear dick caught in ceiling fan and i dont even have either of those.

    and i picked up linearting because colour is a lie, and my brain went "you know, that half of the paper you haven't shaded yet? that needs dot shading. nothing else will work. wtf brain, dot shading takes a million years ==_==

    oh, or that time i accidentally linearted the background i painstakingly constructed over the past 3 hours because perspective and i suck at backgrounds, but that background is covered by clothing. ffff. i tried doing that thing digitally but DAMN i think i need an art program with a triangle ruler/geometry set square/geodreieck plugin, because this is getting ridiculous.
    or start learning google sketchup or blender while im at it. backgrounds are a lie, and so are clothing folds.

    i'll be constantly amazed by people who can draw in simplified ways and still have it look good.

    colour continues being confusing. and that's after the ridiculous amount of xp i got from looking at purplekecleon's colouring tutorial.
     
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  4. Jean

    Jean Let’s stop procrastinating -- tomorrow!

    I think in complete sentences, so it's SO COMPLETELY FRUSTRATING when I write out this entire scene in my head and then try to put it on paper and just... blank.

    Also, I tell myself that I will remember the plot ideas I came up with when I couldn't write them down, but do I? nooooo. of course I don't.
     
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  5. TheMockingCrows

    TheMockingCrows Resident Bisexual Lich

    when you're sketching and the character Does The Thing it's fine, you can kinda work around it.
    when you're inking and they suddenly refuse to be worked with and fuck the pen up ten ways from sunday any time you try to catch their shapes and edges, then it's personal
    LET ME INK YOU, YOU BASTARDS. >:U JUST ACCEPT LOOKING DELIGHTFUL AND WORK WITH ME HERE.
     
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  6. Jean

    Jean Let’s stop procrastinating -- tomorrow!

    *scrolling through my google docs* some of this is pretty good, i wonder when it's gonna update.

    ...wait.

    -_-
     
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  7. artistformerlyknownasdave

    artistformerlyknownasdave revenge of ricky schrödinger

    i’ve been working on this intro piece to an au i’m doing for aaaaages and it’s like, 75% done and the last bit just will! not! happen! it’s so frustrating because i KNOW what needs to happen it just doesn’t want to come out and fucking! scream >:(
     
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  8. KingStarscream

    KingStarscream watch_dogs walking advertisement

    I have hit the point of fuckit where it’s tempting to post what I’ve got and to hell with all the rest hut. But there’s a whole THING I’m setting UP so I can’t just do that.
     
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  9. Jean

    Jean Let’s stop procrastinating -- tomorrow!

    Same.
     
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  10. Jean

    Jean Let’s stop procrastinating -- tomorrow!

    I know I'm posting a lot here, but every time I attempt to go back to work I am struck by another arrrghbleh. This time it's: why can I never focus on one thing long enough to make substantial progress on it?! I have so many ideas and nothing is happening with them because I cannot focus. I have thirty-nine fanfic wips and a good dozen original works I haven't finished yet, and I keep stalling out and starting new stuff rather than working on any of them. Why.
     
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  11. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    That feel when you know what has to happen next and it seems to be in sentence form in your head and then you look at the document and you just can't write words.
     
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  12. Jean

    Jean Let’s stop procrastinating -- tomorrow!

    I am much better at crocheting than knitting. As I am reminded as I try to knit this thing. It's going so slowly. >_<
     
  13. Hawkeguy

    Hawkeguy struggling to complete this thought

    I AM GOING TO RIP APART THE CONCEPT OF LINEART WITH MY TEETH IF THE PIECE I'M WORKING ON KEEPS BEING AN ARSE TO MY HANDS, yes, the piece that i sketched and planned and thumbnailed, TOTES THE ART'S FAULT THAT I NEED APPROXIMATELY A CENTURY TO FINISH IT.
     
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  14. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    Titles.
     
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  15. KingStarscream

    KingStarscream watch_dogs walking advertisement

    Me: I'm going to write something with kinks and whatnot!

    Me, inevitably, when I reach the point where that becomes relevant: Whelp, time to skip ahead to more plot and shit.
     
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  16. Jean

    Jean Let’s stop procrastinating -- tomorrow!

    What do you mean I shouldn't switch tenses all the time?
     
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  17. aetherGeologist

    aetherGeologist Well-Known Member

    Maybe if I worked on one thing at a time some of them would eventually get finished?
     
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  18. winterykite

    winterykite Non-newtonian genderfluid

    Perspective + traditional buddhist temple construction = a fucking nightmare to draw, even with a big geometry set square. I think I need more colours so I can keep track of which lines belong to what...
     
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  19. Codeless

    Codeless Cheshire Cat

    Agree because feel known
     
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  20. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    "this piece needs size 9 (5.5mm) needles"
    me: oh, okay. <focuses intensely on acquiring said needles from needle stash>
    also me: <grabs the 9.0mm needles.>
    ALSO me: why the fuck is this so hard to knit
     
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