Sign In
Close
Sometime... Often... Always, you kinda feel like you are bad and/or going nowhere when it come to art (Be it painting, writing, etc) due to lack of skills or inspiration.
In my case, every time i post something, i'm kinda happy about it, i finished it, sometime i think it's better than the previous one... Then i end up looking up other peoples art on my twitter feed or websites. And then i feel bad.
Basically 100 to 0 in a single web page.
Every time.
But i'm a stubborn motherf*cker (And maybe a bit stupid) so, the day after, i'm back to it. Fully aware of the incoming feeling of failure and incompetence, but still doing it.
I might run into a wall, but i'll try to go through it anyway. And if i fail, i will at least leave a freaking mark.
Submission Information
- Views:
- 592
- Comments:
- 2
- Favorites:
- 3
- Rating:
- General
- Category:
- Visual / Digital
Comments
-
-
Personally, it's not much the fear of what others might think of my work, but what i myself think of it.
If someone don't like what i do, i'm like "Fine", i either failed and need to be better, or there is no way to please them. Fair enough in any case.
If i don't like what i did, i'm everything but fine.Funnily enough, i'm always proud of what i did, because i either did better than before, because i finished it, or just because... well it's mine.
But i hate the fact that i'm still "not there". That i could or should do better, but fail to. I fail to myself, and i always think peoples deserve better (Be it my commissioners, or peoples who just watch my stuff briefly and forget about it).
I still keep going, still draw. Because if you don't try, yes, you can't fail, but you can't win either.
You won't break your leg if you don't jump. And i'd break my leg anytime if i can get even slightly closer to a speeding comet.And yeah, other artists do, even big artist (I mean the ones in Museum and stuff) have this kind of doubt. So yeah, i guess it's normal.
Still annoying, even when you know that, hah.
-
Link
TheOtherEliArts2001
Dude I completely understand how you feel. I want to put up my art online, but I'm afraid of what impression I will make upon people who view them. And sometimes I lose hope and just feel like beating myself up (not literally though, don't worry.) But eventually I get through it, it's just sometimes I feel like I need a bit of a break from time to time. Anxiety just tends to get in the way
But I admire the way you think. I like how even though there are times where you lack any hope or enthusiasm within yourself, after a while you still manage to get through it and try to put yourself out there. And yeah, even I compare myself to the talent of other people who are at a higher level than me. But eventually after about a week or two, I gain enough confidence to post something again, and then I feel like I can really get better.
That being said, this is normal for many artists. It's just that some are a bit more anxious than others, but we still push through. That's what it means to be an artist. All we want is to show the world what we can do, and nothing is going to stop us.