11-09-2014, 09:50 AM
Thanks for sharing your walls of text Rafa and Caisne.
Imma ramble a bit now, sometimes just writing stuff out can clear your mind.
I too have gone through phases of motivation and also phases of dryness(time creeps by slowly, you are not enjoying yourself, you check on the internet every 5 min).
Only a couple of months back I started focusing on finding the "fun" part in art, after listening to Sycras podcast. Its been going great so far, Im not getting frustrated by failures as much as before and Im not constrained by specifics.
I think what some artists get into is this comfort feeling with where they´re at. Ive been getting that a couple of times now, even though Im not that good. I think its partly because of the fact that I know I have 3-4 years of study time ahead of me+ I go to art school, but the school I go to isnt specialized in Illustration, Its not enough on itself, I gotta do plenty of work myself If I want to git gud.
I keep trying to deconstruct the learning process with logic, trying to find shortcuts.( It isnt a bad thing and you can certainly learn a lot from analysing stuff.) Ive learned that theres a mileage factor involved,that cant be figured out on the spot. I could spend 15 hours on a painting, but It would still look worse than a 2 hour sketch a professional has done.
Ive not been doing as much as I could do Ideally (because my mind justifies it with "youre going to art school already, you dont need to push yourself that hard"), but thats the wrong attitude.
I gotta start setting goals and pushing myself harder like in the start, that was more efficent.
Gotta make a schedule. I think so far Ive not done it because I find it uncomfortable and Ive been doing around 1-3 hours of art daily. Once again, thats the wrong attitude, I have to change it. I did try setting some half assed goals on paper, but never really came through with them, I think posting your progress online for others to see is integral part and can motivate you not to fail a lot more.
I think Ill start doing a weekly goal of 21 hours. Last time I put my goals at a monthly length, which might be too long(If you fall behind too much your unlikely to do anything for the rest of the month.) I think setting specific goals and schedules and posting your stuff has been pretty effective in the past, but what deterred me at times was my wrist(Had pretty bad ergonomics at the time). I was put off for atleast a month and that really threw me off. When I got back into it in this summer, I had lost a lot of my discipline. Thats whats missing right now, discipline, up to this point Ive not been pushing myself, but Ive learned to enjoy the process of doing art more and more. Now I got to back it up with a good work ethic.
I dont think anyone will read through that shitty ramble, so heres the useful part: Make a specific goal and post your progress online. Make a schedule for every day. Dont get frustrated by failures and learn to have fun.
Imma ramble a bit now, sometimes just writing stuff out can clear your mind.
I too have gone through phases of motivation and also phases of dryness(time creeps by slowly, you are not enjoying yourself, you check on the internet every 5 min).
Only a couple of months back I started focusing on finding the "fun" part in art, after listening to Sycras podcast. Its been going great so far, Im not getting frustrated by failures as much as before and Im not constrained by specifics.
I think what some artists get into is this comfort feeling with where they´re at. Ive been getting that a couple of times now, even though Im not that good. I think its partly because of the fact that I know I have 3-4 years of study time ahead of me+ I go to art school, but the school I go to isnt specialized in Illustration, Its not enough on itself, I gotta do plenty of work myself If I want to git gud.
I keep trying to deconstruct the learning process with logic, trying to find shortcuts.( It isnt a bad thing and you can certainly learn a lot from analysing stuff.) Ive learned that theres a mileage factor involved,that cant be figured out on the spot. I could spend 15 hours on a painting, but It would still look worse than a 2 hour sketch a professional has done.
Ive not been doing as much as I could do Ideally (because my mind justifies it with "youre going to art school already, you dont need to push yourself that hard"), but thats the wrong attitude.
I gotta start setting goals and pushing myself harder like in the start, that was more efficent.
Gotta make a schedule. I think so far Ive not done it because I find it uncomfortable and Ive been doing around 1-3 hours of art daily. Once again, thats the wrong attitude, I have to change it. I did try setting some half assed goals on paper, but never really came through with them, I think posting your progress online for others to see is integral part and can motivate you not to fail a lot more.
I think Ill start doing a weekly goal of 21 hours. Last time I put my goals at a monthly length, which might be too long(If you fall behind too much your unlikely to do anything for the rest of the month.) I think setting specific goals and schedules and posting your stuff has been pretty effective in the past, but what deterred me at times was my wrist(Had pretty bad ergonomics at the time). I was put off for atleast a month and that really threw me off. When I got back into it in this summer, I had lost a lot of my discipline. Thats whats missing right now, discipline, up to this point Ive not been pushing myself, but Ive learned to enjoy the process of doing art more and more. Now I got to back it up with a good work ethic.
I dont think anyone will read through that shitty ramble, so heres the useful part: Make a specific goal and post your progress online. Make a schedule for every day. Dont get frustrated by failures and learn to have fun.