Welcome back Laurence! Good to see your video popup in my recommended! I feel you on being on the phone too much, I find myself with my phone out at least 50% or more of every day. And it's hard to just put it away and not stress over it. Trying to use it only when I need to, or have time set aside to scroll once or twice a day. Lol Lol I like how you threw in that peanutbutter on toast reference👌 (litteraly eating that now) I think everyone needs a break from things. Even if it's soemthing you love doing. I honestly haven't finished a drawing in what feels like a month or so now. I go through phases of binging art and making every day, then time where I don't make anything. Its like recharging the creative batteries. I also have been working with pottery a lot recently, so maybe that's taken my time instead of drawing lately honestly. Dude! I just started playing this indie game called Tunic. You play as a little fox dude and It's like a isometric zelda-esq adventuring game with bosses and multiple levels ans secrets and puzzles. It's mad difficult honestly lol. The games doesnt explain how to play, you have to find the instruction manual in pages scattered around the map of the game! But it's a super cute art style and has lots of interesting deeper meanings. I've been having lots of fun with it. Shout out to me!? Lol thanks man! Shout out to YOU dude!🤙 I think community stuff would be awesome man. I'd love a drawing/ sketchbook club. Like just to connect with other artists and share and see art. Maybe like a discord or something, like a group chat where the group can share art. And you're idea of having a theme would be cool too! Then everyone could work on a similar thing and we could see how different everyone interprets the theme in their style. I think it could be a lot of fun and very cool. Also if you did some live drawing on stream, that would be a great way to have people draw along with you in real time. (And maybe you could have people send what they drew to that same discord so you could look through everyone's drawings they made while you drew?) I definitely think it's good to take things seriously sometimes and to not be serious other times. There's a balance ya know? Some of my friends and I have some very serious topics we talk about or make art about, but on the other hand there so many times where we're so stupid and silly and we make silly art from that as well! I dunno if we call it a "fry up" here, but the food sounds tasty lol. Oh dude, I love Jim Carrey. I've watched a few of his interviews and lots of his videos talking about himself and his art and his previous self. I think he just stopped putting the public mask on. He's stopped faking how he feels, in my opinion. Some of his words were pretty inspiring to me. Made me think about how I shouldn't worry about how I'm perceived and I should change myself to conform to what is expected of me. I just gotta do what I'm going to do because I want to do it for me. Personally, I don't watch TV. RU-vid became my TV. And honestly I feel it's more sincere and much more personal and artistically driven. I value the videos from the people I follow when they come out, and it's not everyday either. People upload differently so it's always a gamble when I watch. But I genuinely appreciate RU-vid for allowing me to find these artists and people who share their videos. It's really inspired me throughout life. I love this iPad drawing format man! So sick to see you draw digitally "live" in real-time. Hey man, it's great to see you back! Glad you're back into drawing! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and art as always dude!
HEY ZAK!!!! sorry about the delayed reply, life and all that... plus my brain gets distracted by everything!! I hope you're doing great and mrs famer is too! as always thanks for the massive comment, this is like having a pen pal which ive always liked the idea of :) i was thinking more about phones today, its like theyve been used as a tool to get us addicted to everything we view so its harder and harder to escape the phone addiction in a way. sounds like youve had a good break from drawing too, must be something in the water haha. haha i thought maybe you'd be eating some delicious breakfast so i thought i'd chance it. i've heard of tunic but ive never played it, im just hooked on breakpoint but i think im going to force myself to have break from that now as its getting in the way of drawing and me making these videos which i really want to do more of. thanks for the feedback on the community stuff that is actually super helpful! i'm always in two minds about discord but im sure i'll do it eventually. i've been trying to draw some warhammer inspired stuff recently, just doodles but i want to make a more finished piece, i feel like my art never usually gets much further than a sketch phase. im all about the fry ups at work coz theyre so cheap haha but ive been doing some exercise too so hopefully i wont pack on the pounds. i love how you connect with everything im saying buddy! the jim carrey stuff is cool and kinda ironic as he played the mask and then eventually took his own mask off. yeah i get you on the youtube becoming your TV, thats pretty much all i watch too. let me know some stuff that youve been watching :) thanks as always Zak, you're a real true friend :)
