Of drawing, art and stuff like that

[kerydwenn]

There, a post in English and written in the morning, before going to school. I'm not writing in English enough these days, probably because the people who read this LJ are mostly French people and not English-speaking ones, but... I'm an English teacher, dammit. XD

Comments

[blue_aardvark]

How did your assessment go? Well I hope.

Also, have you ever thought about drawing the cards of the tarot deck? It might be an interesting project, and open your work up to a larger audience.

[kerydwenn]

It went so-so. I progressed on lots of points, but there's one big mistake I made, tarnishing all the rest. Well, I won't do it again now, but it might still be a problem.

I thought about drawing tarot decks about a hundred times. XD I'd like to do these for my novels and/or RPG campaign, notably. But I'm always too lazy to start committing to a 22-drawings project (or more, if I'm to do the whole deck).

[blue_aardvark]

PS. Why are you so modest? Is it a French thing? I know artists with half your talent who think themselves twice the artist. ;)

[kerydwenn]

It's not a French thing, it's an Yzabel thing, because I always look at artists with twice my talent and not at the others. XD

I'm not bad, it's just that for an almost 31-year-old artist, I should have achieved much more than that by now (I've been drawing since I'm 6 or so). I know that there's still much room for improvement, and that I can go further than that. :)

Sorry for the long comment ^^;

[minamzi]

I hope too the assessment went well

Re: Sorry for the long comment ^^;

[kerydwenn]

Mmmh, the assessment was so-so, but I haven't got the results yet anyway, so I'm not going to worry my head over it now.

I can't remember whom this quote is from, but I too like it a lot. Too many people are satisfied with mediocrity; I don't see why we should always look down towards the bottom, instead of up to set higher goals. (Hell, if I had thought like that, I wouldn't even have attempted the CAPES: after all, "I already had a job".)

I wa lucky in that my own parents, at least my mother, never dissed my drawings (to be honest, she even read that crappy story of crazy gay vampires I wrote when I was 16-17, and wanted to read more XD). But maybe it's equally hard to improve when family/friends tell you "it's pretty' just because they're, well, friends and family. ^_^;