ExplorAI in the post "Looking for tips/advice to get through the insect lesson, cause I keep getting too creeped out"
2022-03-30 05:47
Yes! Thank you :D I'm doing something like this now to keep my brain from simulating their bodies haha And it worked!
ExplorAI in the post "Looking for tips/advice to get through the insect lesson, cause I keep getting too creeped out"
2022-03-29 19:09
I DREW AN INSECT, GUYS!!!
hahaha thank you for all the tips and advice. It really helped me pin down what was bothering me exactly and how I might tackle that.
This is such a great community, thank you all for your advice and support!
ExplorAI in the post "Looking for tips/advice to get through the insect lesson, cause I keep getting too creeped out"
2022-03-29 18:24
True! I have to admit that all the advice are helping me home in on what my brain was doing in which helps to dissemble it again
ExplorAI in the post "Looking for tips/advice to get through the insect lesson, cause I keep getting too creeped out"
2022-03-29 17:39
Hmmm, that is actually quite helpful... Like the trick you are using in your mind is divorce what the picture represents from the actual picture. So similarly, I get creeped out by building the anatomy in my brain cause my head starts imagining what it feels like to have six-eight limbs bending at weird angles. But I could try to imagine it more like a machine or a mannequin of some sort that just has rotation points and bending points. That might shut my brain up about how exoskeletons etc would FEEL (lol, thanks, brain).
ExplorAI in the post "Looking for tips/advice to get through the insect lesson, cause I keep getting too creeped out"
2022-03-29 17:30
Yay! Haha, thanks! :D
ExplorAI in the post "Looking for tips/advice to get through the insect lesson, cause I keep getting too creeped out"
2022-03-29 17:29
Those are super cool, thank you for the idea :) I'm afraid they'd creep me out just as much. It's not the detail that bothers me cause I can look at insects and stuff without issue. It's something about realizing how their legs bend and their chest and stomachs are all weird... Like I think my brain starts involuntarily running a simulation of what it feels like to have a body like that and it's not a great experience
ExplorAI in the post "Looking for tips/advice to get through the insect lesson, cause I keep getting too creeped out"
2022-03-29 17:26
Thank you for your suggestion, I appreciate it!
The color or texture doesn't bother me. It's literally analyzing the anatomy. I can look at creepy crawlers all day in the zoo and I'm not bothered. I think my brain is doing a funny thing where analyzing the body of the insect gets superimposed over my own anatomy. Like 'ouch, your legs bend like ... What?!', lol. Brains are funny.
ExplorAI in the post "Looking for tips/advice to get through the insect lesson, cause I keep getting too creeped out"
2022-03-29 17:24
It's nice to know I'm not the only one!
Weirdly enough I can look at the creepiest insects in a zoo or whatever and I'm not really bothered. Something about analyzing their anatomy just makes me super grossed out in a way that just looking at them doesn't, so that would still happen with a cartoon version.
I might have to find a way to power through too but not sure yet how to approach that. I draw for about 30 minutes at the end of the day when I'm quite worn out already. It was really meditative untill the insect lesson, haha
ExplorAI in the post "Looking for tips/advice to get through the insect lesson, cause I keep getting too creeped out"
2022-03-29 17:22
Yeah, I feel I wanna don't want to skip cause I can notice huge improvements from each exercise and don't want to miss out, so agree there :)
I draw at the end of the day when I'm quite poofed and low on mental energy and time, and won't have time to change that any time soon. So was hoping to find a better way than powering through cause most of my self-discipline is going other places. But it's good to know it got better for you over time. Gives me some hope!
ExplorAI in the post "Looking for tips/advice to get through the insect lesson, cause I keep getting too creeped out"
2022-03-29 17:20
I tried looking at a bunch of different bugs to find ones that didn't squick me out to analyze, and couldn't find one really. Oddly enough the wasp demo bothered me the least? Beetles, butterflies, lady bugs, and mantises are some of the ones I tried and still freaked me out.
ExplorAI in the post "Looking for tips/advice to get through the insect lesson, cause I keep getting too creeped out"
2022-03-29 15:15
I feel a little embarrassed to admit the crustaceans look as eldritch to me as the insects and arachnids. I'm not bothered by any of it daily life. It's purely triggered by studying them for the lessons now so I thought maybe others run in to the same and use some mental trick I could copy?
ExplorAI in the post "Looking for tips/advice to get through the insect lesson, cause I keep getting too creeped out"
2022-03-30 05:48
I'm actually totally cool with bugs normally! It's just something about studying their anatomy while drawing. But thanks to this thread I figured out a trick!