AI-Joe

My premium membership is up in 4 days. I'm considering letting it drop out. I stopped drawing months ago. My creative juices dried up. It seems like I can't come up with anything decent. My mind's eye has lost it's contact lens and I'm nearly blind. I can trudge through this, but I have to ask - why should I? Is there anything that's going to come of posting this stuff to DA? I have my 1000 Pencils blog on Tumblr (which has also gone stagnant). Maybe I need to start producing finished pieces. Maybe I should take some actual classes. **sigh**

It's been one of those weeks where *nothing* was happening on paper. Depression, and low self-confidence, was pulling me down. I've been playing way too much Minecraft and way too much Zelda (OOT). Things haven't been clicking. I went upstairs to my abandoned office (one of these days I'm going to clean it out enough to start really drawing) and found my Dean Yeagle books and a few of his playboy pieces for some inspiration. I'm trudging through this stuff when I feel I should be soaring. The female form is so complicated and not only is it easy to mess up the anatomy and pose, but it's also easy to make it lifeless and emotionless. I think

I'm going to be working on some pin-up women. But before I tackle that, I've decided to brush up on my anatomy/proportions. I have a whole shelf of manga how-to's that are complete rubbish. I started flipping through them and realized how far off they are from true anatomy. Not that manga/anime is bad, it's just not my bag. I tend to stick to American comic/animation style. I grabbed my series of Hogarth anatomy books I've had since high school... (20 years ago, yikes!). I've never actually read them, I've only used them for visual reference. With age comes wisdom, I guess, because I was missing out on some really important information. Infor