Hey guys, I'm Verr, An aspiring artist from the United Kingdom; desperate to git gud and struggling eternally with just about everything art and art related.
I am incredibly introverted, and started my art journey far, far too late, so struggle a lot with comparisons to other artists and online creators, but I'm trying to get better at this and remain objective; focusing on processes and techniques, trying not to get too caught up in needless comparison, but I have a long way to go.
For my work, I genrally just use Procreate on my iPad w/ an apple pencil. I do have a tablet to draw on PC, but I just never feel comfortable using it, and find it incredibly hard to control and get any lines I'm happy with.
I'm incredibly nervous about starting this blog, because I don't believe anything I produce is at a level even close to being good, or interesting, or of having artistic merit; but I'm in a rut, and have been for the longest time, and I really think now is the time I need feedback, advice and support from other artists to get back on track and start improving. I've never shared any of my drawings outside of close friends, so this is a new experience for me.
In terms of what I'd like to achieve with my art; I'd love to be a concept artist; I've always loved the sort of world-building/slice-of life feeling to it, and I'd love to be able to create something like that for myself. I also like character art, and as a furry I do enjoy drawing anthro characters, however I would also like to get better at drawing humans. Obviously, you have to walk before you can run, so I've spent a good deal of time of fundamentals, gesture, anatomy, however I have a long way to go, and I feel that my pace for improvement has been incredibly slow, and I'm greatly lacking in confidence with my work.
I started Marc's ARTSchool course in November of last year and completed the first term with results that I frankly thought were unsatisfying, so I took a long hiatus to focus on fundamentals in my own time. I followed Proko's beginner figure drawing lessons, read Michael Hampton's Figure Drawing: design and invention and am now just returning to start term two with what I think is at least a mildly improved skillset.
So yeah, that's me - lacking in confidence, struggling with the basics, unhappy with most of what I draw - but I'm hungry to learn, I want to improve badly, and I frankly, I think I need help.
Sorry, this is a long one - there's a lot on my mind as I write this, but if you do read it, thanks for taking the time. It feels good to finally put myself out there like this, and I hope you'll reach out and communicate (if you'd like). I could do with some artist friends, I think.
Here is some of my work from 2025:
Gestures - A very weak point for me. I still feel like I don't really understand it besides absorbing so much material - a lot of the time, I come out of a session feeling "hey, these were pretty good! But a lot of the time, it's more "what's this hot mess?
Digital painting - Some digitial paintings I did for fun; here's a japanese lantern I did from reference. This is a skill I am very keen to develop.
Pixel art - I've dabbled in pixel art from time-to-time, but have put it on hold as I was strecting myself too thin, and wound back to just focusing purely on digitial art and fundamentals.
The dreaded furry art - Something I enjoy, although I think it often comes across as crude and amateurish, I do enjoy drawing characters with pointy ears and tails - and I'm far more comfortable drawing anthro characters than humans currently, though would like this to change
So yeah, that's me.
I do have more images to show, but it only limited me to 5 for now.
Thanks so much for reading. If you got this far, I really appreciate it.
I'll keep updating this art blog anyway as a record for myself and a way to encourage myself to keep pushing and keep moving forward, even when it seems like I'm destined to stagnate. I look forward to viewing this thread in a year and seeing how far I've come.
