Hi all ^o^/

Yeaah as the title says, I'm wondering, what inspires you to draw? I feel like I've never asked myself that question, and now that I'm thinking about it, I don't even have an answer myself... It's like one day I just picked up a pencil and drew the first thing that came to mind and made that my entire personality for a while LMAO

Even soooo, it made me realize that as much as I want to draw, I don't really... want to draw? If that makes sense... Which would clarify a LOT of reasons why I've been so incredibly demotivated and have hardly pumped out any drawings at a consistent rate in 6 years. Admittedly, depression hit me super hard, and that played a big factor and severely slowed down my art progress while making me absolutely dread the idea of picking up a pen in the process @_@ but recently I've been getting treatment and things are looking up! And part of that has made me realize that wow... I never really had any real reason to do these things, did I?

It was like being amidst a severe thunderstorm for a decade straight and then being thrown into a sunny grassy field with the ability to do whatever you want, which SOUNDS good but is quite overwhelming and was like a hard reset on my entire existence in a way. I don't really know, I don't wanna get too complicated about it :P

With that said, I'm asking YOU 🫵, what motivates you to draw? Another artist? Do you do it for yourself? your friends? Family? Sharing certain ideas or even building your own world from the ground up? :o I'm really curious to know, as I think it would help me rediscover what art truly means to me and I can go back to loving what I do again <3