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(Re)gaining my confidence as an artist

For a while now I have been dissatisfied with my art. When I was just starting out there was a spark that made me really happy and proud of my work, lately I rarely get that. I recognized that it looked good but would also not feel like its something special, something to be as proud of as earlier in my art journey. Recently I drew really simple character portraits for a school project, where we had to develop a product, like a game. Everyone was impressed and praised me. And I did feel proud of it and felt like it was solid on a technical level. I had people tell me it looks professionell and that I should pursue a career in art (which I do intend to do right now). But I also knew that any more complicated stuff I can do wouldnt look as good. I guess this is a typical case of imposter syndrome. I felt like because of my skills not being advanced enough for high quality complex work, it invalidated my simple work. Especially in the context of non artists not seeing 'the truth'. But its a fact that these simple character problems look great! And that I still have a long way to go in my art journey. Thats totally okay. During my recent spring break I took the time to draw a lot and for the first time design and draw my Ocs that have been living in my head for two years! Likely due to just having more mental energy because of my break and drawing stuff that I was passionate about, I had a blast and was really proud of my work. I finally felt at least a part of that spark again. I also did some rendering studies which I feel really gave me some direction in an aspect of my art I was not happy with. In the past few weeks I made so much more progress that I felt I made in months. I actually only really realised that while writing this. I can say that I found a new confidence in my art journey, lets see where this journey will take me!

What is the lesson of this post? I dont know. Maybe you'll relate or find some Insights if even anyone reads this massive bulk of a text lol. In the end im just rambling this into the void of the Internet.

But I can say that art is a never ending journey in whatever form or shape you indulge in it. Express yourself even If its 'bad' or 'cringe', it doesnt matter. The purpose of art is not to be good but to put a piece of yourself, of something you love out there, even if just for yourself.

Keep creating.

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angel twitch streamer who uses her halo as a ring light

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“the arts and sciences are completely separate fields that should be pitted against each other” the overlap of the arts and sciences make up our entire perceivable reality they r fucking on the couch

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I’m not sure exactly how to put this to words, but I think it’s fascinating that minecraft players have sort of… figured out a lot of things that make spaces beautiful, but also, the base game doesn’t have to and shouldn’t do them. Minecraft is beautiful, but it lives within its own bounds, where trees are square and come straight out of the ground and rivers are just water with dirt and gravel and sand at the bottom. YOU can construct a natural-looking coastline, or build complex trees, or vary textures of dirt and coarse dirt and rooted dirt and just a bit of concrete powder to keep the pattern looking natural along a dirt path, but minecraft itself has to operate under the rules of what its things are: Dirt is dirt. Rooted dirt is dirt that an azalea tree has put roots in. Path blocks are paths. This holds it back, and that’s good, because if the whole world already looked like a dedicated builder had been terraforming it for hours, then how could you ever build anything there? Every new space minecraft adds looks beautiful but in a way that begs you to improve it. We know how to make Minecraft prettier, but the only reason that’s fun is because Minecraft itself refuses to take our advice. I think that’s neat.

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art comic

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the problem with being creative is that you start to feel very guilty when you haven’t created anything in a while

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Hive

Change a single letter and change the word game

I want to play a game with you all.

You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.

Dirt

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yep you guessed it

Ocean

go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish

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If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.