How to Reboot Your Brain (Art Version)

This started as a comment on someone else's DW but it got too long for a comment.

When you get stuck in an art rut, you end up doing the same thing over and over and over, and getting immensely frustrated because you're not improving, but the problem is that you're doing the same thing over and over and over.

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Learn to Art post #2: Still Life!

Before I get into this, I want to direct your attention to this fabulous post on how to shoot and use reference from the artist who illustrated the Murderbot omnibus from Subterranean Press.

I've done much the same except that I have no friends...

...within a close enough driving distance, so that myrialux is forced to take all the poses so I can bodge them together. XD (The perils of living in a giant metroplex.) Also, people keep telling me to pose myself, but the thing is that I am fat and weirdly lumpy and while I can take a smaller body and draw fat on it, since I have a decent idea of how fat deposits work on the body and with gravity*, I cannot go in reverse, so I cannot pose myself unless I am drawing a character shaped like I am.)

*Gravity: the failure point of using 3D work for reference.

Now, onto how to draw a still life without being intimidated!
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There you go. A still life, at length. YOUR TURN! If you're interested in art, please do try! No need to post it unless you want feedback from others: you have my permission to suck.

You also have Ursula Vernon's permission to suck: here is her Certificate of Bad Artistry. Print it out and hang it on the wall where you can see it.