I've been out of the art game for half a year now after

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>>2927173
Try to go back to what inspired you to draw.

Whenever I'm down and out, and I ask "What's the point? "I always go back to this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KUsRbMUpEU

Don't think of it as art like drawing or painting. take on the role of a photographer who gets to travel to unseen worlds, and encounter all sorts of things that don't exist. Your canvas is where you show people all the the things you want them to see.

Everyone is so upset about things because they spend their lives comparing themselves to people they don't even know, and lives they haven't lived. Withdraw from the world that's hurting you, and spend some alone time with your art. It's hard to get lost in the art when you're holding on to unknowable standards, and comparing yourself to such-and-such, and how little Timmy is only 4 years old but is better than KJG, Amundsen, Murata, and Jesus combined. Negative thoughts will withdraw and distract you from your work, and the thing you need to do great work, is focus, and concentration.

Perfect practice makes perfect. if you practice punching, you will develop the muscles needed to throw better punches. If you make shitty art, you will get really good at making shitty art. So the key to improvement is the constant adaptation of the approach in which you face the problems at hand. You don't get biceps by lifting the bar, it's the weights.

Draw and paint something and don't stop until it is finished. Balance your emotion. if you think it looks bad, take pride in it. If you like it, enjoy the feeling, then think of ways to do things better. 99% of the time, the things you learn have nothing in common with the things you want to draw. And 99% of the time, the things you want to draw aren't fun to make, and so on. Some people get so engorged by positivity that they complain abut nonsense. Others are so starved of positivity that they desperately need it without even realizing it. positivity is hard to come by, and even then, it's hardly appreciated. if you feel good about your art, then feel good. You don't need to tear yourself wide open all the time. People neglect their reality so easily these days.

>>2927212
Sadly, what inspired me to draw really doesn't inspire me any more, and the reason I got into art didn't work out. It was initially animation, but after getting decent at it I realized I couldn't stand the process and would get burned out half way through every project. Good advice, but I'm afraid it is something I have already tried.
>>2927214
Finishing art has always been a big issue for me. Back in the day the big thing was pencil mileage, not ever completing something but doing a ton of sketches and putting focus on the body and studying anatomy. Now 5 years in and I'm a master of sketching the human body and little else. When I complete a work I definitely have that negativity you're talking about and often get pretty anxious about it. I figure I'm at the point where I need to stop trying to get gud(even though I'm still bad-mediocre on just about everything but the human body) and instead need to start enjoying the process or I'll never finish anything.

It might not be a bad idea to draw and finish some things for myself for a while though. I think the hardest thing for me to overcome will be my self confidence. I used to love the "everything I draw is shit" mentality because I thought it would force me to get better, but now it hinders me because that has become the focus even when I don't want it to be.