Sunday, June 19, 2011

God answers Prayer!

So you all my not believe me when i say this...
but prayer works, and whether you deny it or embrace it, i can say that it works all the time.
so about a month ago i was in an artist slump and i honest to God could not draw a bunny right. i tried and tried and all of them looked awful. but i went to my room and i prayed. (yes i prayed about drawing bunnies). and when i went back to work, i still couldn't draw a bunny. so i tried drawing a little fat girl. again, those too looked awful. but then i prayed one more time in the computer lab at 1 in the morning and i was so frustrated. the room was pitch black and i was all alone, when all of a sudden one of my friends Trevor Jones walks in. i tell him my problem, and he gives me a pep talk, and for some reason, it all just clicked in my head. i put pencil to paper and everything i drew was like nothing i had ever drawn before. in that instant i had had a creative metamorphosis so abrupt and like nothing i had ever experienced in my life.SOOOOOOOO from then on i was able to draw my own cartoons! CUTE, APPEALING, CARTOONS!!!! this whole year i was trying to draw cartoons like other people. experimenting with styles of cartooning and copying other master designers, but nothing felt right.
  i was living in a sinful mindset and i wasn't really whole heatedly living for the Lord. but near the end of the year i had tried harder to embrace Jesus like i had done before. i began trying harder to keep my heart and mind on him and it worked. i feel like my relationship with him has a fresh new beginning, and he has blessed my artwork tenfold.
       Recently as i have returned home i was struggling to take my new, God given cartoony style, and combine it with my old illustration style and it wasn't working for a while, and yes i got discouraged, but i kept praying and seeking the Lord and he has blessed me again. and this is what he gave me...



13 comments:

  1. portlynn!
    i love your doodles
    keep up the good work!
    you're a hard working and talented artist,
    and you'll go a long way no matter what!

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  2. Nicely done! The third one looks like Rob Pattinson.

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  3. ohhhhhhhhh!!!!!! thank you Tammy!!! you are so sweet! and emily, you totally read my mind! i've been thinking about how we need a skpe jam soon!

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  4. there's so much awesome sauce in this

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  5. Yes Portlynn! Also after I posted that comment I realized that I have seen these before and I think I said the same thing about Rob Pattinson then too, and forgot. haha.

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  6. I saw these before but forgot to comment. derp.
    These are so cute!! :D

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  7. That is a very inspirational story. And I love sketches #2 and #4 the best, they are fantastic.

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  8. I love the way you draw women Portlynn. In every piece you capture a different shade of the complex existance of females. Please don't stop girlie

    By the way it's Mariah :p

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