Deeply recommend getting absolutely brainrotted about a pairing/oc/concept that no one else is making food for so you have to cook for yourself. Not only is making what you want to see deeply rewarding, you will improve and it will not even be on purpose it will just be the inevitable byproduct.
Once again I will always recommend getting totally obsessed with something you want to see more of as motivation for getting good at creative stuff.
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the easiest way to get good at art is to get a couple of blorbos and enjoy
I am currently trying to write a fan fic to a paring that doesen't even have a tag on A03 and i keep wondering if its really is a good idea or not.
Yeah I'm obsessed with my OCs and pair dynamics. The best motivator is obsession indeed
Isn't this the truth? I pretty much draw ocs because I am so obsessed with them. Drawing them has been the cure of my burnout. They make me WANT to draw.
This is literally how I taught myself to write, by getting hyperfixated on odd characters. That and I don't like being told I'm doing something wrong so I actually listened to the suggestions and constructive criticism I got in my early days until they started telling me I was doing something right.
Life as a Dominion Tank Police fan 😅
So true! I've tried in the past to write fics for relatively popular ships without ever making much progress, but after I got obsessed with a ship from a niche 2002 game with literally two other fics, I've not only published my first fic, but I'm halfway through a second with a plan for a third
This also works on the engineering side of town. I felt like trying to make a Dwarf Fortress type of game, and went looking for tooling. But the tool I imagined didn't exist, so I got to work and, um, it does look good on a CV that I have more than a hundred stars on the Github, at least
literally knowing no one else but me can make my ocs Real is my main drive, I'm the only person they've got and I'm so ill over them
Misread this post for a sec, but ironically this mindset is how I actually learned to cook
This is very true. When you brainrot over OCs you got no option but to grow your own supply.
This has recently happened to me and I am cooking good food over here.
Shipper artists in a nutshell hehe,
I will say being a sidlink shipper it REALLY improved on my way of drawing underwater scenes when i never did so before,
Aaahh I love them both so much...
That is literally the reason I'm writing my novel. An idea popped into my head one day and I had to make it. I don't even have any writing experience, I'm just doing it.
can relate as someone making a whole my inner demons werewolf au fanfic because i have seen a severe lack of werewolf aus in the fandom
I think the hardest thing for me personally is creating my own characters and world for the audience of one, which is me.
Me getting obsessed with BB and just wanting more color in that world definitely helped me break some color concepts in my brain and just improve heaps! Though now my OCs are biting my brain over and over and pulling me back to cyberpunk /sci-fi... 😆
Based on personal experience, I definitely agree!
once you reach an advanced enough level of pairing/oc/concept/lore brainrot, it becomes infectious and you can begin inflicting it upon other people.
It is the greatest form of art to aspire to...
I curse my autistic burnout for not let me dig deep enough into my own obssesion ( Mostly Drukhari and HoolayxJiaoqiu. ) uOu. I want cook my food so bad, but the tiredness is real sadly.
I've been doing that for 15 years at this point and somehow I always pick something that is primarily not popular, but the effort and rarity of it alone brings in an audience My only regret is that even when working on this 40~50 hours every week, never enough time for all the ideas.
Happened first with writing when my wife and I got attached to some character concepts we wanted, 500 pages of writing their story later its been my big motive for drawing and the rush of being able to just bring a concept to life is like mastering a new recipe.
Thats it i am making that self indulgent artwork for my video game ocs lol
Do you have any pointers on how to get brainrotted? I so far haven't found a blorbo to obsess over.
Basically what I'm doing with my blorbos and the story I'm writing with them.. Taken obsessions from now and the past and shoving them all in a blender
Literally me with my TF OC
