78-82/365 Slow Progress - A Few Screenshots

I've been making slow progress on my latest piece. Why do I keep picking complicated plants to draw? Instead of a simple flower, I draw lilacs, which have like 30 blooms instead of one. Instead of a simple leaf, I draw ferns which have like 40 leaves on one leaf! Sheesh. I overwhelm myself. I've been busy and distracted and a bit depressed so I've been slipping on my posts and productivity. I still open my iPad and draw each day, but can't dedicate entire posts to a single leaf being drawn. I also learned that if you take an image in Procreate and simply rotate it, you loose quality and the image gets blurred slightly. So, my forget-me-not flowers are going to be interesting to make. I intended on making a few and duplicating them. So, I'll have to find a good way of doing this that doesn't involve me drawing each individual flower to save quality. I'm going to try drawing them larger first and then rotating and scaling down. Maybe that will trick the program into better quality. Or maybe I can make the flower into a brush so one dab will create a forget-me-not. A forget-me-not brush. How lovely does that sound?

I'm feeling so trapped lately. Trapped in my current profession and wanting to just create something of my own. There is a client we work with that zaps all the spirit out of me with endless revisions. I start to lose my love of graphic design. But I can't learn fast enough, or draw good enough yet to get me to a new and better place. One day I would love to have a brand of my own and just work for myself creating inspiring and motivational imagery.