Today…

Has been a not so frustrating day for the most part.

For the past few days my productivity in game development activities has been a lot slower than what I would have wanted. I tried to force myself to work on my game during my spare time, but soon enough found myself not getting anywhere with that. I started to wonder about what I really wanted to do and tried to find inspiration in stuff which had previously inspired me, only to discover that it wasn’t really working anymore, which ultimately led me to ask myself if I was no longer into game making as a hobby. If I had to describe it…nothing I was coming up with,creative-wise would satisfy me, everything felt mediocre, and I wasn’t really feeling in the mood to give it the extra which is required to overcome the “block”. Have you ever experienced this kind of frustrating situations?

Either way, I casually mentioned to some of my friends about my inability to “create”. One of them wisely said something along these lines…

If you’re not feeling what you’re doing then you’re probably not really doing what you want?

So that’s when it hit me. I realized that it wasn’t a matter of creative inspiration. It’s just a matter that I’m not in the mood to work on that game for now. Inspiration is a really weird thing for me. I can’t fake it. So I think I’ll just focus on doing things which don’t feel like a chore at any given time. Regardless~ I’ve been drawing today, this is what came out:

I was experimenting a bit with this shading style as a friend suggested. As for the subject, she’s actually a girl I’m constantly redesigning and drawing.(Well the “constant” part doesn’t apply to actually drawing her). You can actually see a version of her from a few months ago if you scroll down a bit if you want!

Other than that I want to share this:

I’ve been working on just about everything to these anime OP mashes. The user has kindly put together and uploaded several mixes, so if you’re ever in search of some high quality anime music to listen to while working, his channel is great for this.

Until the next time~