It's a fact, every person who has ever reached maturity has tried to make a wondrous piece of art or write a book. Don't deny it, everyone has given it a shot!

As for me, I have tried and failed on both accounts. My family is a long string of artists that backdate to my great grandfathers, and for some reason I just happen to be the dead link.

I have always been interested by art, and have made "many" attempts to bring myself into the world, but I simply can't do it.
I prefer Anime/Manga style art, since Still Drawing and realistic drawing is simply boring! With Anime, you can mess around, do whatever you want... And of course it opens up the chance to create your own comic!

But I just can't. I seem to have a very unsteady hand or something, since when following tutorials I never manage to keep the same style, or draw straight for that matter. And I "really" have been trying, the excuse so many people use to get out of teaching someone is "practice makes perfect!"
After a year of practicing, looking at the art and seeing no change is making me very frustrated!

What I hate even more is that I somehow have lost all my creativity, I would be sleeping one night, and the perfect vision of a drawing would appear in my mind. I would wake up, quickly grab a blank piece of paper and my "special" drawing pencils and... Oh no, it's gone. I can't see it anymore, as I look down on the blank canvas all I see is a blank canvas!
Yes, I understand, drawing from a dream is hard... But that's pretty much the only time I manage to have any creative thoughts!
Perhaps writing all this down might spark my imagination.

Secondly, I too have tried to make my own book. Now, it's not quite the case of not being able to do it... Or even the lack of creativity; I have had a winning book idea for several years now, perfect and original.

It's my laziness that comes into play here. I can't sit down and type for that long! I managed to write about 10,000 words before getting bored out of my mind. I tried going back, but I lost the urge that was fueling me from the start.

Oh well. Practice "apparently" makes perfect.

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