Continuing the trend of “getting art of Morphkind characters who don’t get nearly as much attention as they should,” here’s the Big Bad of The Only One and Breaking Down, Andréa by Cory!
Even though it’s a sketch, I really need to get better at drawing Anthros again. Glad ya like it, broski :3
Source: saneintolerant
Stop drawing, because I don’t like it.
I’ve been going to one-on-one and group therapy for 3 months now. It’s a 4 month program, so I’ll (obviously) be done soon. There are 3 therapists that run the group sessions, and then we all have one of the three assigned to us for individual.
My therapist is really great. I’ll call her “G”. I have anxiety, OCD, depression, PSTD, and mild aspergers (I’m a real catch). I also have some physical damages, but that is irrelevant to the story. Despite being on medication, anyone with such mental illnesses knows that medication doesn’t solve your issues, but it helps it.
In my case, I always have racing thoughts, and I can never turn my head off to focus well. Due to this, I also have a hard time sleeping. I found that if I sketch or doodle, it helps settle my head. It clears my thoughts. I am MUCH more receptive to what is going on around me when I’m sketching. It is also a movement that keeps me awake if I don’t sleep.
My therapist knows this. She and the other patients in group have no problem that I sketch constantly while in the 3 hour sessions. I’m still responsive to the discussions, and I participate despite the fact that I’m looking at a piece of paper most of the time. I do look up to the person I’m speaking to though, if I have something to say, or if they are talking to me.
The first half of the session G runs, and then when G leaves, two more therapists run the second half. I’ll call them P and D.
So this has been all well for 3 months now. Today D wasn’t there, and just P came in. The first thing she does is says to me, in front of everyone in a not-so-nice tone, “I want you to stop drawing, pay attention, and participate!”
I looked at her strangely, and calmly responded that she knows I do pay attention and participate, and I said, “Just because I’m not looking up, doesn’t mean I’m not listening.”
“I don’t care!”
So needless to say, I couldn’t actually focus or participate in group today, because I wasn’t allowed to draw. My mind was running away with me, and I was falling asleep with running on 1 hour of sleep in two days.
P was getting angry with me again (I’ve never seen her this off) that I wasn’t participating. She scolded me again, and even one of the other group members said, “Why do you keep picking on Anon? Other-Anon hasn’t said a word today. Why not bother him too?”
P didn’t respond then and just picked up talking about the subject again. I feel like P suddenly attained a grudge against me for an opinion I said last week. I’m childfree, at an age where I “should” have children, and I’ve had a tubal ligation. Well, P is currently very pregnant, and last week she was talking about how the reason why depression is so high in America, is because the “American dream” is dying. “No one wants to have kids and a family anymore now that there’s so much more options for people in life, and deep down humans want to go back to the primal instincts of family and home.”
I, nicely, argued that theory, expressed how I am childfree, how I don’t want a 9-5 job, how I want to be an illustrator, and that it might be /possible/ for people who are “forced” to pick other options besides the classic American-dream are depressed because they have classic-minded people pressuring them and trying to guilt them to have children and family (such as the case with me). They are depressed because of not being accepted for who they want to be in life, and dealing with harassment from conservative people who think you don’t have a right to expand your horizons.
P didn’t respond to me about that last week. Half of the group agreed with me, while the other half agreed with P’s point of view.
Well cue this week…and we have the situation of the first thing she does is YELLS at me to stop drawing.
Once group was over, she did what I expected and said, “Anon, I want to see you. I know you’re drawing for a medical reason, and you have it all worked out with G, but I want it to stop. I don’t like, and I don’t want to see it again!”
That really upset me. Even when I said I had no idea what was going on in group today and couldn’t focus, she didn’t care. It’s really disheartening. The therapy is to help me, and it has brought out my love of art in the process. I plan on complaining to G about the issue, and then dropping group…the whole thing just depresses me more.
-Anonymous
That Therapist should be fucking fired.
(via werewolfmali)
Source: artist-confessions
![Okay, updated Marx’s reference
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I’ve been having people tell me Marx’s head was tinier than it should’ve been and it was wracking my brain last night because I thought it was fine, at one point I was thinking I wasn’t portraying the look of baggy clothes. It wasn’t until I redlined Marx’s body I stopped and thought about it… Marx isn’t an adult and I drew an adult body type originally, with Marx’s innocent face it made it look awkward. Marx is tall, but still a boy. However everytime I tried to make his head proportionate to his body his head would be too big. I THINK I found the middle ground cause now when I redlined it I was happy about it. I kinda wanna redo this reference though but I have so much stuff I have to draw and redraw already. Oh well.
Hopefully this time around Marx’s head isn’t so absurdly tiny. I’m glad people kept pointing it out to wake me up, otherwise I wouldn’t have figured out that Marx is still a Young Adult and not fully grown. Just goes to show I need to practice drawing male characters. Been drawing women for so effing long lately I leave the men on a default base. And that’s not a good thing XD
Again, everyone who pointed it out, I appreciate it very much. I just wish I notice these things around NOT 4:30 in the morning and refuse to sleep until I fix it. I guess I’m over worked but nuuuuuuuuuuh, still so much to draw. Keep Draw.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4xsd9Praf1qf234wo1_1280.jpg)
Okay, updated Marx’s reference
vickybit replied to your post: vickybit replied to your photo: Reference image…
ahhh, if only I could draw atm, then I’d try to doodle out what I mean, because idk, stuffs like the size of his hands and legs and width of his shoulders just.. I wanna call it stylization but it still feels off to me, ehehe, sorry :B
The shoulders is due to the volume of the vest itself which is why his head does look small in comparison, his sleeves are very baggy too.
As for his Hands and Feet, that’s intentional. I always had a habit of making them larger than normal like how MegaMan and Pit has, dunno why it just looked better that way. But I know what you mean. I’m not trying to pull a “That’s my style” card, but him having large hands and big shoes are intentional.
If you still do wanna red line it I’d like to see it, and I mean that cause I do love critique :3
Happy Birthday @gigideegee
My favorite character aside from everyone else in the comic. I saw everyone drew cake and birthday related stuff, but I wanted an excuse to draw Cucumber terrified because I don’t know why it’s fun to draw characters fretting, especially in a world where 95% of the characters are absolutely insane.
Hope ya have a good birthday Ms Gigi, also huge congrats on your Kickstarter! Take care =D