Thank you for sending such a nice message. I’m happy you found something in my drawings that not just touched you, but bloomed into something more and precious thanks to you. Keep drawing, dear. 😊

Hi, ah, yes, don’t even mention my Youtube.. 😓 Gotta change this next year. I wish you an awesome year too, have a great one! 😘🍾

I don’t use ink lately, I did use it on my older fanarts the ones 2-3 yrs ago. Now I just use pencils, mostly H-s and adding a little B-s. And a lot of layers. : )

Yes, they are on society.com/gaborovna

A lot of the new ones are not up there though, let me know if the one you like is not available, and I will look into it.

Hey, Merry Christmas! It’s almost here, so exciting. 😃

Thank you ^^ Haha, yes, my hair got so long already, I enjoy it quite much, haven’t been this long for 10 years! :D I was saving on haircut for over a year now… ^^’ I’m going to visit my hairstylist in January, he probably will cut a lot of it, you can imagine how my ends look like right now *sigh

Good luck with your finals, you can do it. Eat bananas. I remember we learnt in biology once that bananas help short term memory, so it’s useful to eat them before exams. :D

Oh, wow, that’s one stubborn Art Block. : )

I’m not sure what to suggest, I suspect you probably tried a lot of things already to overcome it. … (As you probably know - ) I’m a designer, working in design every day from morning to evening, and sometimes after work, and on the weekends too, depends on how much side projects I have going on beside my daytime job. I can’t afford going into any kind of block. So during these years I did manage to kind of figure out how to get out of it when it hits (or when I can’t overcome it, then how to cheat in creativty..) But those are working for me, for my body, so I’m not sure if they are suitable for you.

In general I know that it hits me when I feel down, and usually paired with afraid - I’m a pretty stressed out paranoid kind of person, so I can be afraid on a basetone from things you would just pass by without noticing, and it numbs me. So now I know that I should stay in a calm environment in order to stay creative, in an environment I can trust, I won’t be jumping to every sound coming from outside the house, won’t be on high alert every hour every day, I won’t have a headache over how I’m going to pay off my rent. When you mind goes around fear it can’t build and create - hence my decision to move to New Zealand, but it comes out on a much smaller level too, like the correct workplace, a positive workplace. I also know that I have to live alone, I need a huge amount of alone time in order to create. So since I know all these already I  intentionally look for an environment that minimizes down the worries, negativity, and reduces the chances of hitting a block. The starving artist concept is a lie, you can’t share yourself when you don’t feel full. Or you can, but you can only share your problems, and everyone have those their own, so no one really cares about yours honestly. So aim to feel full, satisfied, and all bubbly-nice with a hint of “the world is such a beautiful place”.
Then, another thing I noticed when my creativity happens to bloom is a feeling of being sliiightly in love. Kind of in love. .. Ah, this part is difficult to explain. Have you been in love? The kind when air escapes your lungs you have to remember to breathe, it numbs all your body parts, you suddenly feel every nerve in your body open up so much they almost burst into fireworks every single one of them and you experience an entirely other world, not the one you have known when he wasn’t around, and time stops around you and you are just lost, entirely lost? … So that’s not the kind of love I’m talking about. That’s a highly stressful feeling, that’s not what we need here. The love we are aiming for is the really soft and warm one, a comfy one. Like what you feel towards your pet, your love towards your pet is unconditional, it’s strong, but it’s not stressful, it spreads in you as a comfortable good feeling, it’s a good love. Similar is when you look at your favourite idol, you look at him smile and you just smile with him. Or I feel this when I see something beautiful too, like a beautiful scenery, or Christmas songs, or watching one of those feel-good movies, or sunny Saturday mornings. This soft love is the best base for me to get inspired. Whenever I need an idea for a project, I would keep that project in the back of my mind always, and when I step into this emotion I concentrate on it a little more and usually get inspired. And since I know my body already I know what will make me feel like this, with a little effort I can reach it. When I need inspiration I would do these things, or delay the project until I feel it. But you have to catch it or it might pass without any inspiration.
For me emotions are pretty important, because I work from them. I don’t work from brain or reasons, not counting pixels, or using guides and rulers for designs, I work with “does it feel right or not?” And if my emotions are not the right ones, I won’t feel it correctly or not at all, and then I have no idea what’s going on or where they should be.
Another thing, which I already mentioned, is to keep what you need in the back of your mind always. Like when you want to draw a fanart of a person, keep this intention in the back of your mind, and wait for it to grow itself. It might take weeks. While you are living your daily life, and you might see something that sticks to your idea, or you might hear a phrase that will be an enlightement moment and your fanart suddenly will show itself to you. It’s like “my body is ready” kind of way when you are keeping this intention in the back of your mind, and slowly seducing inspiration to come to you. 
Which makes me remember the book Big Magic, which you should read. I advertise this book so much gosh, I didn’t plan to pick as my favourite in 2016, but maybe I should, I don’t advertise any of the other books I have read this year as much as this. :D It’s about the nature of inspiration, a personal view on it. Good one, good one.
And finally, you have to train your head to stay creative. For which I find challenges, themes, topics really helpful. Keeping yourself in borders with a topic, but let your mind play with it and create a series on the same topic. E.g. make 3 Christmas drawings. Or be seasonal, like draw 5 winter illustrations. Or January ones. Or make 3 versions for the number 2017 (for which 99designs have a competition on Instagram now, I saw it yesterday :D ). If you can’t come up with these for yourself find competitions online. Train your brain to come up with ideas.

For me these work, of course this is personal, so I don’t know about you. Occasionally the block might be too strong nothing of these work, then I just leave it be and let it pass, and live on experience all the while. But these strong ones don’t take long for me, just a few days top. I might not be drawing for a long time, because I don’t have inspiration to draw, but in the same time I might be highly productive in design. I also get tired from a certain tool sometimes, and then I would feel like doing something else, like knitting, or embroidery, or sew. Variety is wonderful. : )
I rarely have a full stop of block. And in those times I usually feel just highly stressed out for other reasons, so I can’t sit down and create, I just can’t bring my mind around anything. In those times my aim is to bring myself out of the emotional pit back to zero at least.

Now I’m using Canson Cartridge (now means in the past year). The light grain was a different one, though it is slightly grained too, but that was more grained. Anyway, it’s not a smooth paper, you can find other levels of smooth papers. I think that was also 130g, while Cartridge is 110. In general I prefer thicker ones, for those times when I go temparily crazy and use watercolour. In the same time not too thick, because I overtrace the fanarts and something thick (like watercolour paper) would make my life harder, and my drawing process longer, which I don’t want. I like papers which are suitable for anything I might bring over it. This Canson 110g can take water too, to a really small extent, so don’t soak it in water, but you can use a little with it. It’s great for pencil. For Prismacolor I would suggest to try something smoother, I’m not quite satisfied with the texture it leaves behind, but I’m not so experienced with Prismacolor and 50% of the problem might be my technique.

That’s sad. 😢

Yeap, I live here now (”now” 🙄 so over a year.. 😅 )

It wasn’t that big here, I mean I felt it, I wasn’t sleeping yet, and at first it was nothing out of usual, we have small earthquakes, and I got tolerance trained about earthquakes in Taiwan, so it’s hard to get me stressed about these. But then it got stronger and kept getting stronger, I even got up from the bed, grabbed my phone and went to the door to jump out if it gets even worse, the house was really squeeking above me, I live on the first floor. It’s not the earthquake I was scared of, I don’t trust this house!

The centre was on the north part of the south island, I live in the middle of the north island (the hobbits are in the neighbour), and since we are close to volcanoes here, and we often have earthquakes people were keeping it cool slightly confused if it’s time to panic or not yet. They say we might have another big one soon, not much chance, but won’t be out of usual, I heard people are in the supermarket buying up water. Well, I have two bottles of wine and two cartons of beer, so I guess I’m going to be alright. 😂
… I have a terrible deadline to meet on Friday, I don’t have time for these earthquakes and drama.  😐

Thank you for your concern though. I received so many nice messages today from so many people. I feel cared. ☺️

I feel your pain, it’s not easy. :D

I replied to this question once, perhaps you too could check it, see if it helps: http://kpope11ie.tumblr.com/post/68279194973/qa-drawing-the-after-process