#22 Spiky letdown/hard to kill

I'm not gonna lie to you. Two tittles is the only interesting thing in this one.

I had such a great idea for an art. It would be cool, epic and immersive. It would be the pinnacle of my abilities as today.

After over 2 hours of tries, starting over, rearranging, frustration and anger, I could not do it. No matter how hard I tried, I would just not work.

Instead, I made this. I feel so terrible, even about not liking it. It's not its fault that I am its creator, it should not receive any hate.

I'm so mad at myself, why I can't just do one thing right?

I will still love this cactus, he will not suffer because of my incompetence. From now his name is Capy, and he is a part of the family.

I do not really want to show you the process, it's nothing worth your time. But I will do it for Capy, he deserves it. Starting with the shape as always.

Simple shading, the only part that is important, is to make the dark parts as arcs. It creates an illusion of a round object (on the image it's not very well done, that's why it looks off)

Because of the bright colors, I added my favorite black outline, it also looks interesting with the pot (that will not be outlined).

Made the little stones and shaped the pot into a... I have no idea how this figure is called, pentagon?

Here I decided that I can not do a post about something so simple (in a bad way), so I wanted to add some background. And I also failed at that. For life, I could not think of any way how to make it look better.

So we ended up like this. You know what? Screw it! I love it and nobody (even me) will change it.

Here I add the second title.

It might be something worse than I anticipated, but it's my work. My time and tries went into it. And it matters. Just like Capy, we might not be the most beautiful flower, but we are hard to kill. We will outlast and create something great, maybe not today, not tomorrow, but we will not stop! Together, we can continue our journey, every step is important.

Thank you for reading, writing it somehow helped. Hope my mumbling also helps you on your way. You can do it! I believe in you!