Conversation Over Tea - and about more easiness in my art

These two felt a bit stuck lately, nothing they did felt right and they were full of worries. So they sat down to enjoy a cup of tea together. Suddenly the tea started speaking to them and apart from its opinion about pasta and the best way to cultivate pineapples it also gave them the answer to their questions: "Go and draw something without thinking about it!" And they did so right away and suddenly all of their worries and insecurities disappeared. The mighty God of Tea had blessed them with his wisdom!
<3

I did the same and I happened to draw two odd-shaped people drinking tea ^^
And it really helped! Thank you, Gods of Tea!

I felt a loss of easiness with my art lately.
I think it's because I don't just paint for myself and my living room walls anymore ^^ Now that I'm seriously planning on becoming an artist I have to deal with new challenges.

My stories around Mo (see him here, here and here) were quite labor and time intensive, and I still have some similar bigger projects on my mind, that I'm eager to realize.
But I missed my funny little alien drawings!

I had to remind myself (again) that no one is pushing me but myself, that I can basically do whatever I want with my art.
That's actually the most important thing!
I have to find my own way, my own style! And that's only possible when I'm not overthinking it and ask myself if it's good enough all the time.

I was working on my fourth Mo-story and I caught myself fearing that I was not fast enough, that everybody would forget about me when I don't get this one finished soon. Creating never really works with fear and I actually got slower and slower ^^ nothing really seemed to work anymore.

So I decided to take a break from it and go back to my beloved "Tangled" series on NFT-Showroom with the little drawing above :-)
I like my funny little alien drawings! (and obviously other people do as well <3)

I even thought about doing a daily drawing thing for a while, I know there are some people here on Hive doing this. But I don't know, maybe this would put pressure on me again ^^
I do paint and draw every day, but I don't want to publish everything.

My challenge now is to get away from the pressure that the NFT-world can put upon in artist very easily and get back to making art with more easiness and lightness, because this is what I want to bring into the world!

And now, after a few days break from a bigger project (and a few little drawings just for fun and for practice) I almost feel ready to open the Krita-file for my new Mo again ... just to see how he's doing :-)

Oh, I wanted to show you another drawing I did yesterday!
The working title is "Admiring the Cool Guy"
I kind of like it, but my man finds it a bit creepy ^^ Don't know if I'm gonna mint it, but I thought it could amuse some of you :-)

Thanks for reading my (slightly tangled) post today!
<3

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