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ok, derp, second post in half an hour, but I feel this needs its own post. And I need a happy post.
I love the improvement meme. Personally, it gives me hope. I guess most of the time I don't realize how much older and more experienced than me the artists I admire are. I tend to...get stuck in a mindset that "I should be x amount of good, since I get paid for this!" and I get all down because other artists are better and I feel so far behind. And then I see these memes, and it makes me step back and realize that I'm 18, I have no formal training, and only recently started to focus on my art as a serious profession. Most of the people I end up sort of comparing myself to or wanting to be like are a good 5 years older than me, and many have gone to college or at least took classes in high school. Seeing their work at 18-19 makes me feel like I'm going along at an okay pace, and that being able to do something well comes with time and effort.
Which is...a given. But sometimes I feel a lot older than I am, especially in the way of art because I've been doing it for a living for so long. It's just a step back that puts things into perspective for me. It makes me realize I'm not awful, I just have a lot more learning ahead of me and that where I want to be with my art will gradually come with time and work.
Just a little zen moment to kind of balance out all the chaos I feel right now @@
I love the improvement meme. Personally, it gives me hope. I guess most of the time I don't realize how much older and more experienced than me the artists I admire are. I tend to...get stuck in a mindset that "I should be x amount of good, since I get paid for this!" and I get all down because other artists are better and I feel so far behind. And then I see these memes, and it makes me step back and realize that I'm 18, I have no formal training, and only recently started to focus on my art as a serious profession. Most of the people I end up sort of comparing myself to or wanting to be like are a good 5 years older than me, and many have gone to college or at least took classes in high school. Seeing their work at 18-19 makes me feel like I'm going along at an okay pace, and that being able to do something well comes with time and effort.
Which is...a given. But sometimes I feel a lot older than I am, especially in the way of art because I've been doing it for a living for so long. It's just a step back that puts things into perspective for me. It makes me realize I'm not awful, I just have a lot more learning ahead of me and that where I want to be with my art will gradually come with time and work.
Just a little zen moment to kind of balance out all the chaos I feel right now @@