Upcoming Gallery Purging
8 years ago
At the moment I don't like some of my old artworks.
Nowadays they are not worth the mental issues they gave me, even making me dislike drawing.
I've been thinking of how to make drawing enjoyable for years and, maybe the method I'll describe today can do it. It may not solve the problem but I need to try it.
The idea is to do something like deleting everything I've uploaded to FA until now or to replace it with a very small image, just leaving the comments. Then, to only reupload the works I would like to keep showing.
The purging will start on the 9th of February. Please understand.
Mick
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Nowadays they are not worth the mental issues they gave me, even making me dislike drawing.
I've been thinking of how to make drawing enjoyable for years and, maybe the method I'll describe today can do it. It may not solve the problem but I need to try it.
The idea is to do something like deleting everything I've uploaded to FA until now or to replace it with a very small image, just leaving the comments. Then, to only reupload the works I would like to keep showing.
The purging will start on the 9th of February. Please understand.
Mick
This message was translated by the Vilous team.
The only person you really have to please is yourself. I'm not saying embrace mediocrity. Just that you should look at each drawing once it's done as if it were drawn by an artist whose work you enjoy a lot. When you look at other peoples art do you expect perfection? Or do you expect to find something fun or be made to feel emotions? That's how to look at your work. Stop focusing so much on the details and craft and focus on the mood and feel. Does it convey an emotion? Does its silliness make you laugh? Stuff like that.
I do that and it's helped me appreciate my work a lot more. After I soak that stuff up then I figure out where I need to improve from there but I never get stuck up on what I could have done better. There's always going to be something you can do better but what matters is the stuff you didn't do so good that each piece has helped you get better at. Again-steps along your path. Each piece has helped you get that much better. Embrace them. :)
However you decide, I wish you the best ^^
Whatever you feel is the right decision is what you should take, which seems to be to move on from what you have previously grown distaste to, or feeling stressed and losing interest. From what I can understand, art should be as much a hobby as an occupation, and certainly not a mundane task. Looking back on things can certainly help to see them in a new light, but sometimes we just wish to forget. If it feels like starting from new (well, a clean slate as it were), keeping only those images that you enjoyed, it may help to remember the good times.
Many people probably aren't going to make this an easy decision, but I do hope that this works out for the best for you.