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Overcoming Self Doubt As An Artist by Rafi Was Here

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md3artjournal · 3 days

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It still drives me crazy, as someone searching for art, that it's now "trendy" to not use tags and "better" to have minimum descriptions. But i guess, as an artist, i need this reminder to play by the rules...these nonsensical rules.

#tips advice suggestions #artist problems #social media #reminders #food for thought

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md3artjournal · 3 days

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Stop Worrying About Making Bad Art! by Scott Christian Sava

#encouragement #creative motivation #fear #bad art #drawing #illustration #Youtube

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#artist problems #tips advice suggestions #social media #small business artist

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md3artjournal · 4 days

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#artist problems #creative motivation #infographics

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md3artjournal · 4 days

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#artist problems #what art is for #purpose of art #my dad told me when I was young that if you really like something you'll work hard at it without realizing #you'll be enthusiastic about it #that's why i chose art #but i also love the rote work of math #and i love the tedium of reiterating a sculpture/crafting process until it's perfected for efficiency #i love the feeling of concentrating on the edge of my carving tools' blades and all the rest of my noisy thoughts falling away #i love figuring out the perfect minute methods to press my blockprints until I have a technique that makes every print perfect #i love crafting sentences until they clearly convey my thoughts #i love building a case for my arguments through narrative scenes #i love writing down my daydreams as they happen until it feels like I am in the story #when i got into Slayers i never understood how anyone could take Rezo's offer to instantly make a warrior strong #why skip the training?#the training is where you can feel yourself getting stronger #i love that #the practice is where you build the mental fortitude that results in actual strength #sure i would love to snap my fingers and have a beautiful fanart of my OTPs #but it feels so good to move my pencil or brush against the paper's tooth #i can only assume it's an inherent human reflex to find catharsis in the physical actions of creating #Also the thing I love about physical mediums and traditional art is when the medium “pushes back on you”#when the medium “pushes back on you” it gives me so much that I didn't think of #happy accidents #unintended side effects

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md3artjournal · 4 days

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I had this moment in university, right before i switched from the science college to the art college.

All my life, i was told i was a science person. I aced math tests. Physics was easy. I loved the natural sciences. I ate up science documentaries. I remembered being excited about my science textbooks throughout elementary school. Then i got to college, and suddenly i was flunking math, i didn't know what i was supposed to be doing in labs, teachers felt absent, and i felt alone and lost. Who was i (as a student), if i couldn't do science?

But i was taking core classes, which was a little bit of everything. And my dad always said you'll know what you want to do, because you'll work hard at it, without even realizing. (He also said that you should do what you like in school because you're the one taking the classes.) Well, i found myself unintentionally enthusiastic to put extra effort into my art class. It was the only class i felt that way about. My path was clear.

Actually, as a person, not just in school, i had always identified as a writer. I looked at my whole life through that lens. Anything that ever happened to me was fuel for writing. I looked at experiences as potential writing fodder. I coped with bad experiences by at least seeing its value as emotional reference material. But i hit a wall. I was frustrated with my inability to write as well as i thought i imagined in my head. It was like that story of the music composer or pianist who couldn't make music as perfect as they pictured in their minds. I didn't realize the 2nd half of that story yet: that nothing in reality will ever be as perfect as you imagine it; the transition from perfect thought to reality will never reach the imagined perfection; but that imagined perfection often turns out to be an illusion anyway, just a FEELING that something was perfect (as can be attested by anyone who actually managed to write a scene/dialogue as they imagined it); but whatever you create also has the potential to exceed what you initially imagined. So like an idiot, i got frustrated with my wall. Why couldn't i just better describe what i see in my head?!? I could see it clearly!..."Maybe i could better realize what i see if i just DRAW it," i thought. I had gone from library bookworm, to Calvin and Hobbes, to X-men, to manga. And the idea that mangaka could do BOTH the writing AND the drawing, caught me into awestruck. So the idea rooted in my head that i would learn to draw alongside writing, to fill in my writing's Insufficiencies. I felt my writing was regularly progressing with my solo practices, so if i needed professional guidance with anything, it woukd be art. Plus, i seemed enthusiastic about working hard at it, without even realizing. So i became an art major. What i didn't know was that it would so take iver my life, that i wouldn't have time to write anymore. And then i got disconnected from my writing community when i left the college internet access. I didn't realize how much a supportive community fueled my personal practice. And now I'm at a point where i haven't written a story as complex or as frequently as i used to. I haven't felt i could identify as a writer, for many years. And i feel lost without that identify. (Meanwhile, my artist identity is nothing i can be confident about. It never reached the skill levels where i could personally identify as "an artist".) I'm just floating through life, feeling really lost, waiting to die.

#nostalgia #school #art #science #stem #identify

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md3artjournal · 4 days

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I’ve been an Art Director and I’m now CEO of a globally recognised art studio. And not a day goes by I don’t feel this way.

Don’t let these feelings win. If you ever feel this way you can break the cycle by supporting another artist. Give feedback, share tools and tips, redline. This helps compound your own knowledge or even holds up a mirror to your strengths and weaknesses with greater fidelity.

One of the best experiences for me was hiring a junior concept artist even though we were not looking for one. We were only hiring autonomous seniors. I was in a bit of a rut like this with my personal work but helping her helped me.

It’s also okay to explore new styles and not finish anything, but it shouldn’t be because you weren’t immediately amazing at it and you were comparing to others. We’re all running our own race, nobody is in front of you 👍

" ---Jade Law @jadel4w

#encouragement #creative motivation #artist problems #vicious cyles #figure photography

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md3artjournal · 20 days

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