03-23-2019, 11:13 AM
Hey Darktiste, was passing by and I see you re still crippled with some self confidence issue. I want to add my grain of salt to what everyone has already said, in hope that some of it may be of use to you.
What works for me to work on a regular basis is simply cutting off all distractions and not caring about the audience response. I don't play video game anymore. I don't party often. I just work every days and take a few hours a day to watch movie or hang out with friend, but my life is 80% about drawing right now , and that's the only way for me to discipline myself to work constantly. Cutting everything uneccessary.
As for people response, you know, people forget about you five minute after seing your work. Sometime its fives second. No more. You re a breeze in their life, a fleeting passenger , and that the same for everyone. Don't be concerned about what people think of you. They don't care about you. They don't care about anyone but their relatives and themselves. You re the only one who can do something for yourself, and making excuse and cursing your bad luck won't help you. You ll just get stuck at your place forever. And you're not the only one, everyone is like that at a moment of their life.
I think you think too hard about all of this. I may not be the best person to say that, because I'm an artist in training too, but at some point you just gotta stop thinking about things. And do it. It's as simple as that.
Everyone here understand you to a degree, because as artist we are all familiar with repeated failure and the comparison to more seasoned veteran. You have to move on, you re obviously disatisfied and people patting you on the head won't help you grow as an accomplished artist. Only hard work everyday will.
As a technical note, some artist like craig mullins and Bastien lecouffe deharm have five time the same brush in their photoshop list, at different size, which allows them to quickly switch between determined sizes by assigning a hotkey to switch between brush (back and forth).
For the save issue, you should try working on one layer for some painting. I sometime do that (its more convenient for things like smudge tool) and it's help build confidence. It's ok to have failed stuff. Just accept that you have to grow and to learn and be humble about it. That doesn't make your opinion less valuable, as everyone's opinion is valuable, even the one of people that don't do art as they are the main audience in the end.
What works for me to work on a regular basis is simply cutting off all distractions and not caring about the audience response. I don't play video game anymore. I don't party often. I just work every days and take a few hours a day to watch movie or hang out with friend, but my life is 80% about drawing right now , and that's the only way for me to discipline myself to work constantly. Cutting everything uneccessary.
As for people response, you know, people forget about you five minute after seing your work. Sometime its fives second. No more. You re a breeze in their life, a fleeting passenger , and that the same for everyone. Don't be concerned about what people think of you. They don't care about you. They don't care about anyone but their relatives and themselves. You re the only one who can do something for yourself, and making excuse and cursing your bad luck won't help you. You ll just get stuck at your place forever. And you're not the only one, everyone is like that at a moment of their life.
I think you think too hard about all of this. I may not be the best person to say that, because I'm an artist in training too, but at some point you just gotta stop thinking about things. And do it. It's as simple as that.
Everyone here understand you to a degree, because as artist we are all familiar with repeated failure and the comparison to more seasoned veteran. You have to move on, you re obviously disatisfied and people patting you on the head won't help you grow as an accomplished artist. Only hard work everyday will.
As a technical note, some artist like craig mullins and Bastien lecouffe deharm have five time the same brush in their photoshop list, at different size, which allows them to quickly switch between determined sizes by assigning a hotkey to switch between brush (back and forth).
For the save issue, you should try working on one layer for some painting. I sometime do that (its more convenient for things like smudge tool) and it's help build confidence. It's ok to have failed stuff. Just accept that you have to grow and to learn and be humble about it. That doesn't make your opinion less valuable, as everyone's opinion is valuable, even the one of people that don't do art as they are the main audience in the end.