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If you were to connect my mind to a bluetooth speaker while I was drawing, you'd just hear the Jeopardy music on loop

Exactly!

I don’t like this because I can’t understand it. I can’t draw and not know what I’m doing. If I don’t know what I’m doing then it doesn’t work

So true

I mean... ...sometimes, yes? 😅

Every time I put pen to the screen: "Let's see if I can remember all the things I rediscovered last time"

I am both 😅

Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't. It's a living!

@pondsizedocean.bsky.social we've had this exact conversation 💖

I struggle so hard on the fly to explain so I’ll just send someone one of my art stream vods usually pfff

My art teacher questioning everything after seeing me use tissues to masterfully paint with charcoal.

I hate how accurate this is

"What if I put a line HERE..."

Do you know how many times I just accidentally discovered a new thing in 3D modeling that I have to memorize for future use. Like oh, let me clean up this geometry a bit, huh that doesn't fit well, what if I just delete the faces and refill...oh... that's so much better.

I need to remember this when I try to draw.

Exactly me xD

😆

Accurate XD

Honestly, mood

so real. 😭

me with my sketch layers full of redraws of ten million different parts of the drawing in six different colors

Oh yeah, totes accurate. Pretty much just flail around saying “yeah this looks like something”

Me 😭

Every episode of Drawfee

It's happened to me before that I've made something I can be really proud of but then not do anything with the technique or style for a long time... and then when I want to make something similar:

You have no idea how true this is

Frighteningly accurate!

Me all the time XD

Haha same, sometimes I just mess around until I come up with something when I got nothing 😆🎨

me when i code anything

It's not just art I'll be messing with lego and just kinda put pieces together until it starts to take shape into something and then adjust as I come up with an idea. I call it, "creative labbing".

Oh look, it's me! 😅😂

So much of my process is just experimentation. Eventually I figure out how to recreate enough happy accidents to have something neat to show off consistently.

That's the artists life.

Wow, out there spilling our secrets, huh?

*smiles through tears*

This. Every single time.

*crying* so real

As an artist... i can confirm I never know what i'm doing, I just... art!!!

so me

All the time...

Being an artist with aphantasia is so exactly this. Hell I'd imagine being an artist without it is probably the same.

Well some time it's more like this: And we still process anyway XD

Michaelangelo is reported to have said "If people saw everything I have to do to make my art, no one would call me a genius."

Making a million tiny decisions every day that other people cant even fathom! Even other artists!

Yup.....-looks at all the art, painting, 3d modeling, animations for the past twenty years.-

📌

The mind of an artist: *dial-up modem sounds*

This is true for doing anything in general really.

All the time

this is basically bob ross

Recently, I’ve been experiencing that mindset. I have no idea what I was doing. Only that I enjoyed it.

Yep.

Me with sculpting. The kicker is, when i try to make something again and I have no idea how i did it in the first place 🤣

Amen

me making music

YYYYYEP. Basically

More like if I think about it, then questions start bothering my process lol

I feel like this then I watch videos of people creating art and even their idea of not having a clue what they are doing is SO much more informed than my version of not having a clue 🤣😭

"They're a genius!" inside the head of the genius: "oh god i don't know what to do i don't know what i'm doing i'm a hack i'm a fraud the well is bone dry this house of cards is gonna topple down around me"