#artist problems

[ukelele-boy]

The best thing about being an artist is that you can draw what you want. Until you can't draw it. Then it's horrible being an artist.

[bellathetmntgeckolady]

Ever just make an OC and you think they’ll just be a one-off character but then all of the sudden, whoop. You dive into the character to understand how they handle a situation you put them in, you help them succeed, develop their personality more than you planned and you’re just attached to your little baby now so you’ve got to see them grow and flourish and make it to the happy ending they deserve?

[l1atena1]

Don't you sometimes get an absolutely extrodinary, mind blowing, such an awesome idea for a story, but you just don't have enough skill level to pull it off?

[bearlyfunctioning]

Comic #335: Spot the AI - Website links: Here! My MIL means well, but she was being fooled by detailed art-dolls of baby animals before AI became a thing! Now so many people like her are going to have a legitimately hard time knowing if photos are real or not & it is only going to get worse. I've definitely been fooled too, but if I spend more than a few minutes looking at something I can usually tell it's generated crap.

[whatsupbeanie]

Happy new year friends! I'm back from my holiday break. If you do anything creative, do you relate to this? The idea of what you want to draw/write/create is so big and cool and exciting in your head but once you do it - it's nowhere near as impressive haha. Happens to me more often than I'd like.

[writeouswriter]

[Image ID: The Always Sunny “You guys ever been to Florida?” scene where Dennis answers “Been there? Not physically” edited to read “You guys ever work on your WIPs?” with Dennis labelled “Me” responding “Work on my WIPs? Not physically.” End Image ID]

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

a rather annoying.

[frownatic]

I keep putting myself in this situation

[najsigt]

Over the last 3 years, I've drawn 250+ pages of my webcomic but I wouldn't be surprised if I've drawn less than 25 drawings of my characters outside of that...

[alliedn]

you know, like a liar

[mewtwoandme]

After that last rebloged post I felt like putting together some artist memes too, based on my own experiences XD

[lilybug-02]

I still do not understand how artists make their art so quickly. I see some mfs out here and they could make a fricking book with all the art they post in a single month. Who are these people? Do they not eat?  Do they not sleep? What the hell am I missing? 

[katapotato55]

advice for very specific type of art block

do you ever feel like drawing But you keep overthinking and struggling as you draw? "no that leg doesn't look right" "no still looks weird" and then you spend 500 years redrawing it over and over and over and still struggle ? here is what i personally do

step 1- TAKE A BREAK FROM THAT PARTICULAR PIECE. step away from it! you are being all consumed by it! step away!

step 2- draw something stupid and random, AND MAKE IT LOOK UGLY AND TERRIBLE ON PURPOSE don't try to make anything good, don't try at all. just bullshit on a paper and doodle random stupid crap. don't put effort, just make something awful on purpose if it looks bad, then mission accomplished because that was the goal! it it looks good, then hurray you loosened up your art block a little bit and may be able to progress! free confidence boost baby!

continue until you feel better if that doesn't work, then take a break all together from art as a whole for like an hour. sometimes that works.

[bearlyfunctioning]

Comic #331: Imposter Syndrome .png - Website links: Here! I'm not kidding when I say I dislike like 70% of all the art I make, not even considering work stuff, JUST counting personal art. I forget half of everything I draw after 3 months. Yet ya'll are wilding out here with extremely sweet compliments & amazing artists are following me. It clashes with my self perception so hard I just end up CONFUSED!? Anyway thankyou for liking what I do even when I'm feeling real critical.

[joshua-beeking]

I met a French artist who does paintings ( he has a GORGEOUS atelier. about to retire now.), has 45+ years of experience under his belt and wrote multiple art books, and I asked him how things are faring for him artistically and he replied with:

"I sold 2 canvas in the last 3 years, so that earned me 5000 $ in an entire year. Nobody cares for art anymore, they sure want to look at it, but refuse to pay artists living wages. I sold canvas even back during the gulf war and that earned me more money than now. If it wasn't from my book royalties, recent years wouldn't have been livable. I can't imagine how hard it must be for you younger people. I was in the right period, but for new artists starting nowadays with the recent problems with Ai and such? Can't even imagine."

I really appreciated his understanding, kindness (despite our difference in age and experiences, he was so kind, not condescending in the least, and understood perfectly my situation.) Times for artists are so difficult now...

[writeouswriter]