Lines

Seriously, this just about sums up my technique. I generally plod along drawing in photoshop using basic techniques and brushes, then I decide to try and improve my drawings by getting nice thin "inking brushes". Cue a solid hour sitting sifting through a brush pack, confused and confounded by photoshop's weird brush loading and saving system that forgets what I did five seconds ago and needs me to manually clear out all the stuff I don't want over and over until I'm left with the nice brush that isn't a brush but is in fact called a tool because it makes me feel like a tool. And the brush/tool/thing, drawing with it, looks worse than what I was doing.
Seriously. This is the issue with me. You can go on about the tutorials and everything, and show me what to click, but in the end if I don't understand, then inevitably and very very quickly, some tiny tiny setting will not be what it should be, and I won't be able to improvise because I don't understand it. Final year of my art course and I'm still tripping up on this, and then it'll make me feel bad and want to go back to my comfort zone and can't do that because you can never advance if you stick in your comfort zone.

So, yeah, overcomplicated tech is confusing. Sorry, I don't normally rant, but this is just a bit of a zinger for me.
Sorry,
Reel