Burn out, break time and a passion fruit pattern
I woke up one morning and decided that I was both tired and bored of making patterns, for the moment anyway. I was doing so well too, with weekly challenges and then drawing after animating all day after work but then...poof! Nothing. No desire to draw anything at all. For the first few days, I felt a bit bad about it. I had this lofty goal of creating close to a hundred patterns this year and now I find myself not feeling inspired at all. It's become clear that I have burnt myself out and now need a reset. Working on the computer for hours and hours, day in day out wasn't a good thing either, so instead of beating myself up about it, I spent the last few weeks reading, going through my art books, looking at comics and zoning out on the couch (without drawing while I watched) and just relaxed. I think it's really necessary to just stop and through exploring other subject matters and hobbies to feel inspired again. I ended up in a rabbit hole when I came across AMV's (a...
