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On self deprecating art, comments, etc.
7 years ago
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If you are interested in commissioning me, come drop me a line! Let's see what we can make together! https://forms.gle/rWtK2fLXYUkNzPvo8 Can we as a community agree that “I made an art (ten seconds pass) now I fuckin hate it” comics aren’t funny and are in fact detrimental to artists? I had a teacher that told us constantly that if you don’t care about your work, why should I? These comics (that have been done again and a-fucking-gain) took something that’s just an Artist Feel™ and perpetuated it into rampant self deprecation in artists for not only their work but their abilities as well.
People who haven’t been drawing for long know that their work isn’t as good as someone who’s been drawing for a long time, and it’s so difficult to get it into their heads that they shouldn’t open with “I did this thing and it’s awful” because that makes others dislike it. I have a friend who started drawing only recently and every time he showed me a drawing, he would open with “I did this and it’s awful” and I, as much as I wanted to help him improve, didn’t want to look at it or critique him because of that immediate negativity. Once I told him that shitting on the art before anyone else can form an opinion is detrimental to not only the view of the person he’s showing it to, but also his OWN view, he stopped doing it, and I actually saw an immediate and marked improvement in his work. Hell, he posted something recently with the comment “I’m learning! :D” and the work was FAR beyond what I’d seen him doing previously.
So please. PLEASE. Can we all agree that those comics, despite their original #relatablecontent, just aren’t fucking funny anymore and are doing literally zero good for the art community as a whole?
That rant out of the way, I know it takes a lot of effort to see the good in your creations when you’re so used to the negative feelings about it. It’s so difficult to break yourself out of that mentality, but please, for your own sake, try. Just remember that before you put pen to paper, stylus to screen, hand to keyboard, thread to needle, whatever your tools, before you started, it didn’t exist. Now it does. You’ve created something, and that’s amazing, and you should be proud. I’m proud of you. Keep going <3
People who haven’t been drawing for long know that their work isn’t as good as someone who’s been drawing for a long time, and it’s so difficult to get it into their heads that they shouldn’t open with “I did this thing and it’s awful” because that makes others dislike it. I have a friend who started drawing only recently and every time he showed me a drawing, he would open with “I did this and it’s awful” and I, as much as I wanted to help him improve, didn’t want to look at it or critique him because of that immediate negativity. Once I told him that shitting on the art before anyone else can form an opinion is detrimental to not only the view of the person he’s showing it to, but also his OWN view, he stopped doing it, and I actually saw an immediate and marked improvement in his work. Hell, he posted something recently with the comment “I’m learning! :D” and the work was FAR beyond what I’d seen him doing previously.
So please. PLEASE. Can we all agree that those comics, despite their original #relatablecontent, just aren’t fucking funny anymore and are doing literally zero good for the art community as a whole?
That rant out of the way, I know it takes a lot of effort to see the good in your creations when you’re so used to the negative feelings about it. It’s so difficult to break yourself out of that mentality, but please, for your own sake, try. Just remember that before you put pen to paper, stylus to screen, hand to keyboard, thread to needle, whatever your tools, before you started, it didn’t exist. Now it does. You’ve created something, and that’s amazing, and you should be proud. I’m proud of you. Keep going <3
Wonder if this is part of the reason why no one reads my book/my manuscripts. I'm so afraid of being cocky or full of myself that I go fully the other way and hate on my own writing so much. I love my characters, I love my world, and I love sharing it with people, but I never feel like the writing is good enough to allow myself to call myself a writer.
I wonder if the reason this kind of thing is so common among furries and other creative types is because we tend to be really introverted or have some form of anxiety or depression disorder so often?
That said, I agree that an artist should always value what they have created.
*subject matter depending