Can use some help/advice (artist based)
11 years ago
I am really starting to get lost in what I should do anymore art wise...
I find myself with more and more ideas, but after doing pathetic sketch, I want nothing more to do with it because I realize how much more work I have to put into it. I used to be able to put 30 hours into a piece and it never bothered me. Now, I get disgusted with the fact that I cant start painting within a couple hours.
I am still at a point that I have to do a sketch for an idea. then I have to do 4-8 more sketches over it to get it right. Then lining it. Then coloring, Then shading/highlighting. I have a few folders full of half done/shitty sketches of ideas. easily 40+ pieces. I just cant bring myself to finish most of them. Feeling that I am not good enough to produce the final work that is even worth while with my current ability.
I am just confused on what to do. I am lost on what to do, wanting to do more, wanting to draw for for others (since I dont get commissions), but unable to get motivated to working on something for 20+ hours again.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I find myself with more and more ideas, but after doing pathetic sketch, I want nothing more to do with it because I realize how much more work I have to put into it. I used to be able to put 30 hours into a piece and it never bothered me. Now, I get disgusted with the fact that I cant start painting within a couple hours.
I am still at a point that I have to do a sketch for an idea. then I have to do 4-8 more sketches over it to get it right. Then lining it. Then coloring, Then shading/highlighting. I have a few folders full of half done/shitty sketches of ideas. easily 40+ pieces. I just cant bring myself to finish most of them. Feeling that I am not good enough to produce the final work that is even worth while with my current ability.
I am just confused on what to do. I am lost on what to do, wanting to do more, wanting to draw for for others (since I dont get commissions), but unable to get motivated to working on something for 20+ hours again.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Do it every day. Rain or shine, even when you wanna be all "f*ck art".
It will be hard. It will be onerous. It will make you grumble and bitch and wanna throw things. It will also make you faster and better. Art is as much a talent as it is a skill. And it doesn't grow without practice. Just like a marathon runner trains every day by jogging, so do artists train by pushing through.
Its hard, I know it is. That slump, that plateau when you just feel like everything should burn because it doesn't feel like its getting better and there's nowhere to go b ut off the edge. But you can do it. you can find a way.
Watch some speed painting videos, really watch them and try to figure out how they are doing what they are doing. (which is hard for me cause half the time I just stare in utter amazement and go like.. 'oooo shinnney ...') but turn off the amazement side of your brain, and the jealous side, and turn on the technical side. a lot of them use barely any sketch. they go straight to pain and then just rework the colors over and over, defining more and more with each go round until its a thing.