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Jonas the Perfectionist by jonas
I've been writing down my thoughts about my own particular experience of being an artist, with its positive and negative aspects, and I wanted to share this in the hope that it might provide some insight to other aspiring artists who might face some of the same (or similar) issues.
It's a big-ass wall of text, and I know some folks who watch me definitely do not want to read this stuff, because they're here for my art and not my philosophy (and that's OK). So here's a link if you want to read it:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kSQxTn-dSW0MhZqYqHc1OR-bFONcOGczwDufteLP4gU/edit?usp=sharing
(and if you disagree, don't hesitate to comment.)
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I hate to be "that guy" but I take the whole "there is only One True Way to do art" thing a bit sour. That kind of mindset tends to lead to a lot of contention and elitism IMO, and honestly while yes, there is a certain range of aesthetics that "ideally" appeal to us, I seriously doubt we're all gonna be arting in the same style at any point in the forseeable future. Like, I feel like that bit is implying that there is only One True Style™ that we should all be striving for, and a lot of artists (and even non-artists, like myself >.>) will probably give you a lot of flak for that because it kind of nullifies diversity and creativity…
Apologies if I'm completely misinterpreting, but I do take some issue with a sort of "unification of principles" when it comes to art, as to me it seems to generalize too much and not leave any "wiggle room" for variations in style.
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Okay, reading a bit further I see that this isn't really trying to promote a convergence to the One True Style™ or whatever…sorry for going a bit volcano and spewing a mini-rant before reading all the way through. >.<
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I feel like you should take the scientific angle a step further and look at each "Wrong" attempt as another experiment on the theory of what is "Right".
I have the same problem with my own work, and a lot of times it can be paralyzing for me to see something I know could be improved but not know what to do about it. I've learned that I have to just complete the failure and look at the final, finished, "failed" product before I can get a good idea of where I went wrong before I can go back and change it though. It's been the same in everything from scrubbing the tiles of a floor to doing my own accounting - the more "Right" I fill the situation with, the easier it gets to single out and diagnose the "Wrong" - that one bit of grout that's still a bit filthy stands out a lot better among a much whiter floor, or the transaction I've gone all dyslexic on and flipped a couple digits in becoming a lot more apparent when I see a multiple of nine in the unaccounted for sum.
And yeah, that's basically another version of "just do it", but it does ring true, even if it's an incomplete and over-abridged bit of advice when put that way. You have to give up on the idea that you can just get it "Right" in one go and ignore the impulse to try to fix it right then and there - just make a note of it and move on until you can give yourself the full picture, then approach it again from that more informed position. In that sense, doing good work is the same as doing good science; complete your experiment, even if you see the foolishness of it before the first results are even in, and let its data inform the next step.