First one I titled “no”, the last one “constricted”. Middle one doesn’t need one

Im not saying abstract art doesn’t need skill, but when you are in a certain state it creates itself, and I was not capable of painting an actual scene or anything of the sort

Wonderful

These are the designs

Okay sorry, Ive had a bad day and it turned into a rant, tho I still want to say it

Look, Im OP and I don’t like this attitude of denying people the right to fail. The important thing is to be proud of your failed projects, as unintuitive as that sounds. What is probably my best painting on a technical level is actually quite garbage, I will not share it again I don’t even remember it most of the time. What got the most likes out of everything that Ive posted on DeviantArt was actually made because I couldn’t draw an actual necromancer in the pose I wanted, and I turned the whole thing into a skull golem. My favorite concept I came up with - “the beast to devour the sun” don’t remember if it was 2 or 3 attempts, both ruined by my lack of experience with the medium Ive used - it taught me how to not do things and I still think both iterations were one of my very best original designs. Lack of failures is synonymous with staying in your comfort zone, with stagnation

I used too much white for the ball, so it blends in, but they are actually playing fetch

Due to what people consider disorders I am a creature of impulses, trying to keep a routine literally broke my brain before, so that’s 100% not something I would need to worry about

Look, this is the one sheet out of 10 that I painted on today and it isn’t a failure. But you know what? Failing is fun and slowly gets you back into the rhythm. It’s just real damn shame it was watercolor paper, that crap is expensive af

I want to use fountain pens more, but it is very hard on paper

Youre damn right about that

John Brown

Immediate respect

Alright, but I gotta warn ya that you will need to work hard to get them to show color of any intensity. On the upside that is probably the most possible blending control you can get with physical medium

I started with watercolors because they survived from my primary school times, later bought a semi-professional watercolor set to finally end up with gouache, and I will probably stay with those. I do have acrylics too (I painted with them literally once, image below), but watercolors and gouache are so much more compact in working with and cleaning up, I love that aspect

Every visual artist needs to learn to sketch, get 2 pencils, 2H and 4B would be my go-to. Standard 80mg copy paper is somewhat lacking, not exactly bad but I don’t like it, even then you don’t need a professional sketchbook, notebooks are pretty good, actually. If you get into paints, don’t repeat my mistake, watercolors are the least forgiving medium Ive tried. Crayons are fine, chalk I have no experience on, you could consider pastels

To be fair there was a transformers spinoff for younger audiences with the bots fighting infrastructure failures and natural disasters instead of evil robots, Streetsweep would fight right in