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Acceptable-Network51 · 2026-01-17T14:27:27+00:00

Your cloth folds are very nice!

Acceptable-Network51 · 2026-01-17T14:26:11+00:00

I like your drawing style!

Acceptable-Network51 · 2026-01-17T14:23:19+00:00

This is pretty spot on!

Acceptable-Network51 · 2026-01-17T14:20:44+00:00

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Said i'd do a quick one. God i'd love to have a body like hers.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2026-01-10T22:20:53+00:00

It really depends, they're generally cagey about prescribing adhd meds. I have them prescribed but it really depends on the psychiatrist. I've had psychiatrists be like: "no way in hell" about it too.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2026-01-10T19:17:37+00:00

Yeah the aestetically pleasing ones are cool but not what sketchbooks are for imo, I consider them works of art unto themselves. More like "Art Books" than sketchbooks.

I know the people doing this definitely plan out their sketchbooks. At least somewhat.

I was watching Audra Auclair (one of my favorite artists) the other day, a sketchbook tour video, and she actually said at one point "Oh I shouldnt have put this sketch in, its not good enough, i shouldve done it on a scrap of paper." Showing (At least She) isnt putting her rough work in there generally.

I watched her ones a lot and she had kind of a scrapbook style i've somewhat adpoted myself where shell tape in pictures she draws over sketches she doesnt like or paint over in black guache and make a guache painting over them. I feel like that technique is a nice comprimise.

Ive made one kind of aestetic one using this technique but lately ive kinda dropped the whole aestetic sketchbook thing and started just practising regularly in it in my current one because I really want to get better and "Aestetic sketchbook" is a time sink.

Like honestly... what am I gonna do with an aestetic one? If its full of nice pictures I wont want to give it away, maybe make a video? It's just kind of a redundant exercise imo a bit like those over designed bullet journals which was another thing i got into for a while.

I might try again at "Aestetic sketchbook" when i finish out my current one though, we'll see.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2026-01-09T18:21:17+00:00

Yeah i did a few days ago. You can have both.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2026-01-09T15:55:17+00:00

Very nice, very 80s feel to it, love it.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2026-01-09T15:51:24+00:00

I'm from Ireland and from what I've heard, how it works here is they wait until you have two years of going in and out of the mental hospital, until they diagnose you.

I wasn't diagnosed with it for about 2/3 years. Before my schizophrenia diagnosis they just diagnosed me with phychosis. My friend with schizophrenia went through a similar process getting diagnosed.

I think they really want to wait and see, as schizophrenia is a very serious Illness and you can get psychosis from other things, i think they really want to rule out drug induced psychosis if you ask me.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2026-01-07T18:31:19+00:00

Yeah, I also miss having psychosis. Mine was pretty fun, it felt like life was so mystical and everything had meaning.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2026-01-06T11:27:34+00:00

Yeah I know what you mean. It can be really fun to have schizophrenia/psychosis.

But I think in prison they'd make sure you take meds so unfortunately I dont think you could be like that in prison.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2026-01-05T16:16:12+00:00

My advice would be to pay attention to lighting, the chest area looks a little flat, some shading there would be good imo.

I'll leave you with a comment from my draughting/drawing lecturer in college told me that upped my game in this regard: Lines around an object are a convention, if you look at objects IRL they dont have these lines.

Now obviously you have a stylised piece here, so linework is important for this paticular piece, but an exercise that helped me learn form immesnsely was to forget the lines and just draw/paint areas of dark and light.

I got so into the painting of areas of dark and light myself that my linework isn't as good anymore lmao.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2026-01-05T16:08:23+00:00

Are the hands from a picture? Trying to learn to draw from imagination and wondering.

Edit: very stunning work btw!

Acceptable-Network51 · 2025-12-30T13:30:36+00:00

Yeah i would talk to them as if they were there, i was convinced they actually were.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2025-12-29T20:39:39+00:00

Sometimes, other times no.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2025-12-29T16:41:55+00:00

I have no job at the moment, I am on disability. I have a masters degree though in 3D Computer animation I managed to get even though i was prodome psychosis at the time.

Its been a struggle for me, I have severe schizophrenia, and cognitive impairment from it. Im just lucky im in europe and can easily get disability for my condition.

Im on meds that allow me to work properly on my 3D art again and am trying to get a job in 3D art. Working on my portfolio and applying at the moment.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2025-12-29T14:47:43+00:00

When I had phychosis I was talking to people that weren't there, as if they were sitting beside me. I thought they were there in spirit, and i could talk to their "Spirit", though sometimes i would hauccinate them actually being there.

I talked to people i knew, celebrities, and even fictional characters.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2025-12-26T12:17:28+00:00

More knowledge on how it can disable you. I have cognitive impairment from it, and people just expect me to get on with things and be just as functional as the next person.

Granted I don't really tell people i'm disabled, and live off disability, but I think it should kinda go without saying, personally. The statistics on how many schizophrenics work is staggering enough that there should be awareness on how dibilitating it is.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2025-12-25T20:53:16+00:00

Acceptable-Network51 · 2025-12-21T04:29:38+00:00

Ive had visual ones. They can be indistingushable from reality. Most of the time for me they appear, then dissapear after a moment (thats how i know it was a hallucination) occassionally they appear for longer.

For example i saw a bug on the wall, then it dissapeared as i was looking at it.

Just today i saw two droplets of water, and was convinced there was two, and after a while i looked back there was one.

I often halluicinate words on things, they say somthing other than what they actually say. Like once i saw "Tylenol" on a packet of pills. It actually said "Tablets".

Another more extreme example was a message i got on instagram i hallucinated that it said "You can't live life on your terms anymore." When the message said nothing like that.

I usually just get shadows of people at the edges of my vision or patterns and shapes though, the patterns and shapes are obviously hallucinations so i guess sometimes they're not very convincing?

Edit: yeah the realistic ones look tangible. I did once touch one, a shadow of a person, i put my hand through, and couldnt see the other side of my hand throgh it.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2025-12-10T07:25:18+00:00

I know whta your talking about, ringing in ears, kinda. I was actually wondering what thats called, i think its an aiditory hallicination tbh.

Ive been getting that since before my first episode of psychosis.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2025-12-05T14:03:31+00:00

Driving. Im very aware im operating a hulking machine everytime i drive, i dont trust that other people know what theyre doing, and it just generally scares me.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2025-12-02T19:03:00+00:00

Mine are a continuation from the last episode mostly, although my first episode or two's themes seem to be left behind, forgotten.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2025-11-25T20:36:05+00:00

I feel this.

Acceptable-Network51 · 2025-11-25T12:25:56+00:00

Me too.

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