#48 Limits

I know I promised a more art related post, but I could barely force myself to do this. I'm sorry, I know, I don't deliver. And I know it will only get worse in the nearest future. Life.

Some people have strength to push through any adversity, endure any pain, defeat every enemy. I'm one of them. I can only look up to them.

Today I wanted to talk about a very hard topic. Based on a title, you can probably guess, what.

I feel like there is a giant stigma about limitations. We don't like being told that we can not do something. It came to the point where: if you are not able to achieve, you are just lazy or didn't work hard enough.

It reminds me of a party game: Musical Chairs. Every time the music stops, the person that didn't sit on a chair, looses. Does it mean, that he didn't try hard enough? What do we miss?

The first answer that came to my mind is that he had the longest way to the chair, that's why he lost. But it wasn't it. I think that what we miss, is the fact, that one chair is missing. From the start, every but one is supposed to lose.

The limits are very similar, always there from the start, but we learn to ignore them.

But we are only humans, our bodies and minds have their limits. And we should not be ashamed of that. Getting to your limit is not something to be ashamed of.

It's something to be celebrated, if you have reached your maximum, it means that you have really given your all. Now, you should rest. You deserve it.

This art is so absolutely terrible that I just want to skip it. But I promised to show everything, so be prepared.

This sketch looks nice, but it all went downhill from there. To be honest, I barely had strength in me to sit down and start pixeling anything, till this moment I was till kinda into it, but later I just wanted to finish I fast as I could.

I guess if you want to learn something, there you go: this looks uncanny, because the eyes are looking directly at the “camera” while the head is tilted. It beaks the illusion in your brain.

It's all over the place… I wanted to go with the “no outlines” path, but It takes a lot a creativity that I just don't have in me right now. On the other hand, the sketch was prepared for that, so now it would look awfully with the outline too. I guess it's a lesson to never change the style mid-pixel.

Well, final piece. I really love Leafeon, so I'm sad he was desecrated like this.

I'm sorry for the another sad post. Life has been tough and at the same time I feel like I should just shrug it off, because most people have it much worse. I guess I'm just a weak human after all.

But I promised to show every tear and blood dropped, no matter how pathetic.

I don't really know how to make it better right now, but there is one thing I know for sure: I'm not giving up, no matter how low I will be. I scared, wasted and tired, but not done.

And you are also, not done. No matter how hard it can seem, you can do it. I believe in you. You are not alone.