Thread by @MuthaFknPenguin, So for the past like two years, I’ve been developing a story [...]

So for the past like two years, I’ve been developing a story and I’m super excited about it. I’ve been wanting to turn it into a graphic novel because I genuinely think it would do well, I’m not even done with it and I’m just shy of a quarter of a million words. 1/??

My problem is drawing it. I know I can do scenery and backgrounds/foregrounds. I’m good at that, it’s my forte ya know? The problem is people. It’s always been an issue. 2/???

I know I could hire someone to draw that part for me but I want this to all be from me, and I could couldn’t do it. And as my frustrations mounted I realized that I reached what’s known as “The Gap

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It’s different from a “block”. When I’m blocked I can’t really come up with ideas or something to put onto paper. It’s frustrating sure, but it’s not nearly as bad as standing on the edge of a Gap

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I have had so many ideas swirling around in my head, it’s so loud and bright, but the moment I put pencil onto paper or stylus to screen... I can’t do it. It just doesn’t happen, because I realize, I don’t KNOW how to do it.

That’s “The Gap

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I did a life study once in a college course but I learned nothing.

I did fair enough but my teacher was more interested in my ability to recreate scenery so he taught me things in regard to that. Which, while I’m thankful, I feel kinda cheated. That was already a strength of mine, and I wish he had helped me develop my weaker subjects.

Like the human form, faces, eyes, hands, the whole works. Without any direction on how to even start I got stumped and just sat on the edge of The Gap

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So when I tell you the relief I feel right now, from just learning how to draw an eye, believe me, I almost cried again, but these would have been happy tears.

I found a YouTuber called @Sycra and he’s taught me more about the human eye in just one video than I think I learned in all of Drawing 102.

I’m a fast learner, but im also a visual learner. I know your probably like “duh Mariel it’s art, you have to see the drawing” I know but hear me out.

I visualize things in my mind before putting it onto paper, I need to understand the object itself completely before I draw it. Not just “draw a line here and here” those videos and tutorials only frustrate me because my brain is lacking information it needs.

So when I follow them, my drawings look awful to me, they feel incomplete. I need “This is how the eye works”. And Sycra does just that and I feel so freakin relieved.

I can not recommend his channel enough. If you find yourself stuck on a Gap

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Ok end of thread, I just needed to get it off my chest. Much love, Good night!

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