I tend to get too busy to draw with real life so I can go weeks and sometimes even months without drawing. What's the longest you've gone without drawing?
A whole month, because I was literally unable to produce any drawing, like if my brain decided that suddenly I shouldn't know how to draw like at all
Senior year my 'art teacher' was so horrible I found it painful to do art for school.. then a few months after graduating mom passed away and that sucked all my desire to draw (I did do at least 1 thing before mom passed but after graduation, but only because it was for her).. So...5 months? Maybe 6.. Dad really struggled to get me to draw again..
4 years. I've mentioned elsewhere that I managed to have a 4 year art block. I think that this feb will be 4 years since I got over my art block so I'll soon have been drawing again longer than the art block!! So that's good!
A whole year... yikes. The year that I moved abroad, everyone defined me as “the girl who likes to draw” and people kept breathing down my neck to see what I would sketch on the bus... the grade was also fairly small so people heard about it and then I got requests to draw other people. I really hate doing portraits of other people and eventually I felt like I was drawing to impress my classmates and not myself so the year I moved back to America, I just quit completely to “focus on my studies,” whatever that meant. I guess that’s an example of extreme burnout. I try to draw mostly for myself and my family complains a lot when I won’t draw for them or give them paintings, but in all honesty art is like the only thing that I have just for me. Art is my selfcare and while I don’t mind sharing it, it’s not something I think I can create for other people. Jeez, I’d be lousy at commissions!
Please take that mindset and never let it go. Art should be something you do for yourself and not other people.
I’ve certainly been on your side where i felt like i needed to impress everyone and it was the most exhausting thing I’ve ever done. Definitely a bit contributor to burnout can confirm
I stopped drawing when I was 16, after my Art GCSE...I picked up a pencil again with intent to draw this year, and I am 29 next week. So, almost 13 years.
Two years, I would believe. I tried only two drawings, then went to story-writing for reasons I don't know. Now I go a couple of days, occasionally a week or so, without such acts.
I wanna say maybe a... month? I got swamped with school stuff and couldn't really fit in the time I wanted, so I just decided to take a step back instead of trying to force myself to make stuff I knew I wouldn't be satisfied with. Still was kinda sad though
A few months, I think? I went through a very rough spot with both art block and hating everything I created. This happened about 2 years ago.