It is my favorite.

Yes, I go through this all of the time. Honestly, everytime I finish a piece I feel like I can't come up with anything else. In fact, I am going through it right now, while I sit here and scribble crappy thumbnails that look like crappy thumbnails. It always works out in the 11th hour, but this continual cycle of mysery isn't fun.

However, when I push through I always learn something new, and so in some ways I am addicted to it. The only time I didn't have anxiety about my art was when I used to think I was really good, and never tried learning new things.

Here is my process of overcoming my anxiety

1- tell my wife that I suck at art, and I should just quit, and she always begs me to continue on and tells me how good I am.

2- tell her the same thing a couple hours later, and she really emphasizes that I am good enough.

By the end of the week I feel so creative, and then will go through this all again the following week. At some point my mom will catch on.

Though some of my steps are a bit dramatized, it is usually something along those lines how I deal with my anxiety. I also make sure I have people to get advice from, such as here on the forums. Everyone here has been support group for me over this last year, and they all are so encouraging, and I believe we all want each other to succeed.

Hope that helps...probably not though...I suck at this kinda stuff.

The angled board to the right of the ladder seems as if the bottom edge of the board should be showing. Also, group the tools and scrap wood together in fewer piles, but more in each, maybe 2 but no more than three groups. Right now, everything seems evenly spaced along the bottom. I like the idea of another kid in the scene, as suggested by @MirkaH, maybe one of them scratching their head in confusion. Do try to finish it. It has a lot of potential!

@rcartwright Thanks for the grid idea. Will use that as well as I modify this.

@Wendy-Plybon Hey, thanks Wendy. 😉

@Lee-White Awesome Thank you Lee! I was trying Arches bright white but it was hot press, I usually use Arches 140lb cold press (had never masked over color before though) I Love, love the trick you shared about fixative over my pencil lines, it is awesome not to have pencil smear 🙂

@Jake-Parker I keep trying to click on it there and it won't play for some reason, even when I logged in with an account! Maybe I need to ask BYU TV.

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Paisley is 5 years old. Her monster had big, sharp teeth (snake teeth), big mouth, long arms and scaley, big feet that go stomp, stomp! A hairy big belly.

i loved this class, its awesome:-) Your drawing looks as if you paid attention to the class 😉 I would probably just add right paw to the rabbit. I know its hidden behind left one, but i wonder if it could show a bit, or maybe he could hold a whip or smth? 😉

And another one. This is my favourite so far - not too far from my usual, just less cleaned up and a simpler rendering. Too rough?

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@Laurie thank you!!!

When I posted it, I was still working on the arm, so it wasn't connected yet, but good eye 😉

Great concept - reminds me of Dr. Suess's moose story, Thidwick, the Big-hearted Moose - Especially the expression on the tree - Love it!

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@cowboyseth It depends. SketchUp has a large community of people who make and upload models for everyone to share (especially furniture and construction businesses do that as a way to promote their products) - so very often you can kitbash another model, or build the room (which takes less than 5 minutes) and then put in the furniture you need from the model library. It if is a fancier environment or machine with lots of fantasy elements, I normally just block in the volumes with basic shapes and go from there - it is then more to know where everything is and keep it consistent.
The most complex model I built was a student´s room with kitchenette for a short graphic novel that had only one location (so I had to draw it from half a hundred different viewpoints) - that took about a day of work but also used about 20-30 models from the library (I even put in the dirty plates in the sink). Normally, a rough model would take less than an hour of work. For the classroom, I just used an existing classroom model and changed the position of the chairs, added computers and gave the room a different shape - definitely less than an hour.
It is important to say that Sketchup models are very "stiff". They are wonderful for viewing a place from different angles and sorting out the position of things in multiple panels or illustrations, but not as a direct reference - otherwise your drawings look like architectural renders. Normally, I draw my own grid using the Sketchup model as reference, mark out the position of things and then draw free, using the grid and all the other references needed. But the time saving in figuring out positions and distances is enormous!

@MirkaH Thank you 🙂

Ive watched it last night. Iam super impressed and it made want to draw more. Iam going to show it to m kids as well:)

@Christine-Garner Thanks Christine those tutorials look really good as I am quite confused with Affinity,I cant seem to get anywere.I also did not like illustrator.I like learning new things so I will give it a go.

your description is very vague, but there are aluminum plates that are being used in the printing industry, that you can expose images onto too. i guess if you wanted instead of printing from it, you could roll it up with ink and use that as the end point as well. http://www.takachpress.com/access/litho.htm

I think it all comes from you. You can take classes in person here and there, and learn online. there are many places, in addition to here that teach classes online. and schoolism has in person classes around the world as well. I learned art in a traditional sense, and more specifically fine art printmaking, and am now shifting to illustration myself after 10 years. The thing that will make you stand out from the crowd is practice, practice, practice. it is up to you, if you have the self discipline to do it on your own, or if you need to be in a class setting to do it. Most of us are not able to take off and go back to school, so the best thing is to learn from several others and then incorporate all that knowledge into who you are and into your style. and you don't know what your style is until you start drawing for yourself. 🙂

Love it! Awesome composition! 🙂