artz
"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through."
A thousand times this. It makes me hopeful, and happy to be where I am. I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't draw. When I was a kid, it was just about the process. I loved just doing it. But as I get older, like so much else in life, it just becomes more and more about the results. I hate that. Making a beautiful drawing is always fulfilling, of course, but if it was achieved through a resentful process, it's never quite the same. If I make several sketches for a picture, and I choose one that I'm less than thrilled with, I'll inevitably hate it at some point later in the process. I've certainly grown as an illustrator, but I have so much more to learn. And I want to get back to focusing on the process. I want to get back to a point where I am excited to work on a piece, from beginning to end. I'm definitely headed in the right direction, I just have to keep going.
A thousand times this. It makes me hopeful, and happy to be where I am. I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't draw. When I was a kid, it was just about the process. I loved just doing it. But as I get older, like so much else in life, it just becomes more and more about the results. I hate that. Making a beautiful drawing is always fulfilling, of course, but if it was achieved through a resentful process, it's never quite the same. If I make several sketches for a picture, and I choose one that I'm less than thrilled with, I'll inevitably hate it at some point later in the process. I've certainly grown as an illustrator, but I have so much more to learn. And I want to get back to focusing on the process. I want to get back to a point where I am excited to work on a piece, from beginning to end. I'm definitely headed in the right direction, I just have to keep going.