State of Mind Matters in Art

First, let me say that this is OLD ASS ARTWORK.

Back when I was in school, I was working on one of the many projects I never finished and I had to do a character design of Thor, who was a central character in my story.

The first time I tried to tackle that design, my head was just not in the right place. I wasn't feeling confident about how I was gonna approach this, I was feeling sick, I lost my car keys, I didn't own a car, my gf and I had broken up for the hundredth time, my dog ate my homework. Whatever. Regardless of the reason, my head was just not in the right place and I felt like I was struggling before I even put stylus to tablet. As a result, the piece of shit that is #1 came out.

About a week or two or three later, I tried again. This time, I was more going at it with the intention of just doodling and I wasn't putting any pressure on myself at all. I was just kinda messin around. Since I was so relaxed about it, I produced a significantly better piece.

So I guess I'm trying to say just relax when you're working on stuff. There's always another piece and you're constantly progressing, whether you know it or not.

But I haven't been able to really relax with my artwork since that one time. So really I'm full of shit.

Don't use drugs.