Drawing at the new place/image heavy**
ness the artist, art journey, art advice, art process, moving vanessa netzel ness the artist, art journey, art advice, art process, moving vanessa netzel

Drawing at the new place/image heavy**

I hummed and hawwed for days over what to start drawing. The stacks of boxes and work to be done made it hard to focus to do anything else.

This was going to be Optimus playing piano, with some care bears doing a carebear stare to cheer me up. When in doubt for what to draw during art block, comfort characters always help.

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There are no mistakes, just happy accidents.

There are no mistakes, just happy accidents.

Sometimes I have a vision in my head that I haven’t actually practised much on paper. I'm nostalgic for the 1970’s psychedelic album art/landscape art. The whimsy of the stars and the way the lines flow, intrigues me. As I was bringing it to life here in a Cosmos x Soundwave illustration, I found it needed more forethought than I was used to giving my art.

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A visual timeline: how I explored color from 2017-2019.

A visual timeline: how I explored color from 2017-2019.

For the new people around here that don't know of my early tumblr days and how much my art has visually changed since 2017. You can actually see the points in time when I started having fun with art and color again.

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Painting through insecurity

Painting through insecurity

Yes well Everything I was working on at the time got permanently shelved. I felt like the only rejected artist to ever exist-a statement that is overly dramatic and false but, it's how I felt. The rejection hit deep wounds.

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