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One thing I will say today is fck arms like seriously… :’ they are the bane of today. I WILL CRACK ON THEM CUZ OH MY GOD —-

—like wtf :/ from yesterday okay so i wanted to focus on arms… and i think from videos i kind of watched what helped was the shoulders… i think i forget them…. And one thing i have trouble with the bend or whatever….??? I feel like I didn’t have this much trouble but whatever……………….

but lol instead of doing arm stuff I went into pose studies….? The first one I wanted to change the ref n make it more dynamic etc and wtf is the torso tbh… but happy with it… also looking at it now lol the arm portions suck. yeah another part that is :/ to me…

—anyways for the second one…. It was fun…. Trying to create stuff from the ref I saw… using it a base for pose idea but I wanted to add more personality and shit…. Anyways I think the arms was kind of fine….? Here….? But hard to draw tooo sIGH. anyways after that I just went ham in doing just arm studies. I had ENOUGH. and I wasn’t really doing it in a constructive or effective way tbh… just whatever… I figured maybe I drew arms for enough times I would get it………no that didn’t happen…… :’

so I went to do the bones and hey….?! maybe these might actually help…?! I see that from the bones… it shows how the shape of the arms be it is… with the wide point of the front… like wow… and and so I tried a pose in bones where it’s like bending arm above and I feel like I was getting it…? (especially helps to see the confusing mess that’s hard to draw of traps n deltoids bunching over when the arm twists up….) I drew over it and well. Yeah. Lololll not the method but does help in seeing stuff

—and I thinkkkkkk after this one I watched a video….???? Just to refresh some parts I might have finished and at this point I still didn’t have no fcking clue to how to approach stuff and did literally whatever. and see how it goes…and SIGH I don’t think some of it is bad but I give up honestly. I had enough.arms fck u. it’s so difficult with bending shit and I just don’t get it:/

—but taking a break….from this…. I realise that I HAVE A PAIR OF ARMS??? And I can do more obersvation and tracing; since the problem is portions and the bumps of arms and shit and bending in diff posss that get to me. So then: I should do more observational now and just observe and use my arms too like right now: how my arm is bending when im holding my phone. just thinking and being aware of stuff like that: my upper arm resting against my torso… bending upward in that kind of angle… and just being aware of that and visualing helps a lot…!!!! and it’s a good exercise because it’s quite literally my arm and I can just feel it out even I don’t see it. and one things I do even if im not art’ing physically and especially did a lot during the early times of this serious art journey is trying to imagine and construct the pose in my mind and how I would draw it in my mind. since my visuallinh is really good, I can draw stuff in my mind and think deeply and I think that observating other arts I can see and just photos and also feeling out how my arms work when i do stuff is how I should go about this for now. when all feel like it’s failing, falling back on observation is really helpful..!!!!!