I dunno what to do sleeeeend
It just feels baaaaaaad and it wont stoooop

all the time, esp when lecturing

*HUGS*
I miss you, you know? =V
How have you been, Doctor?
Angered any stewardess? Or is that stewardesses... Stewardi?
Now that I think about it, I guess teaching is an occupation where this might happen commonly...

There's probably older people than you resenting you right now for similar reasons. People like this form a huge chain, deep into age 105, where the world's best 105 year old artist is mumbling angry shit on a city bench about the cruel fact that some 40 year old stranger drew a nice mural behind him.

I think the problem here is in your perspective. There will always exist someone more talented in any field than anyone, ESPECIALLY in a subjective field like art where you can just reshape your parameters of what's "good" on the fly.
Once you're satisfied with your talent, everyone suddenly looks like adult teenagers. You'll be watching your favorite artists look at the artists THEY like, and you'll see a bunch of talented, 30 somethings people pretending to be worthless geriatrics, twisting their opinions on each other into whatever allows for maxiumum self pity. Do they actually feel bad that they weren't born the country's regional art champions, or do they feel bad that they've got more years of work to do before they're as good at self expression as they wished they were in high school?

Despite reading your whole post, I am not sure what it is you are trying to tell me. Are you saying that it shouldn't matter to me if someone else is better at me as long as I can express myself? Or should I not care because art is subjective? Well, I guess both of these can be pretty good advice XD
Thanks Nessie =3
Though, after a day of thinking, I know now that my actual problem is not being jealous of his skills; rather I am jealous because someone I admire likes their work a lot. Have you any advice on dealing with jealousy? I could really use the help.

I guess it just bugs me how often artists use each other's ages as a self-pity thing. When kids get good at drawing in Highschool, it's because they focussed on art in highschool. Talent isn't some kinda inborn thing some people just luck out on and happen to score early, it's the result of a slow patient fixation on a skill. Kids improve quicker than adults improve, because they don't have our massive schedules to juggle. They can spend several afternoons alone in a row sitting at home and drawing uninterrupted the way I used to spend hours in a row watching cartoons and playing videogames, because hey, you have to do something you enjoy when your friends don't come over and your parents ignore ya and you got ten empty hours a day to fill (more on weekends). Kids often quit improving once they get hit with your adult schedule, 'cause drawing is rough and it's alot easier to mope for a minute then go do fun things instead.

Anyway, I can't really help you feel less jealous of your friends, but I guess I should mention that if you wanna improve at drawing this year, you gotta quit drawing fast and try drawing slow. It's easy to get the impression some people are actually better than you, when you're both about the same talent level but they put days and days days into a single piece. On my drawings lately, I put in about 20-40 hours work, over the course of a month. You can take breaks all you want, but if you got a good idea, don't call the drawing finished until you got a great result. Go for a big background, go for the dynamic pose, get some relaxing music and just redo everything you don't like dozens and dozens of times. Ya might have to cancel your weekend plans every so often, if you draw like this, but you do learn alot in a hurry!

I tend to nitpick and second guess myself when i try to work on a single project for more than a day,but i suppose having one project I can put thirty minutes into everyday, while still doing my usual submissions, could give me a chance to learn and improve. Thanks for the insight Ness, you've been very helpful. =3

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