11-13-2014, 08:50 PM
Finally I found the magical thread that contains treasure. So many great stories in here we can all relate to. I just wanted to say that Amit's zen post made me think about something I read once.
I started my art journey two years ago, in 2012. I studied graphic design & art and design for 6 years - graduated, in the hope that any school would accept me as an illustrator. NOT. I never learned shit at that school. In those 6 years I had one 2h anatomy lesson. I wasted ALL my teenage years and adolescent years there drawing logo's and random company bullsheet until I was 21. School just told me I was ''below average with drawing and I should give up on drawing ''
Give up on the dream i wanted to reach that blossomed when i was 13 until now- and do something else felt impossible. After school I asked my parents if I could get 3 months off to work on art because I couldn't let go, but my parents never supported me with becoming a concept artist/ illustrator, because its not a job where you use your hands and legs to do something '' productive '' so they were pushing me to get real jobs and this and that. I tried to ignore it all for as long as I could but there was so much pressure from everywhere around me. I felt the clock bashing against my head, literally K.O'ing me every second. My art was improving, but I was failing at the same time. I never reached my 1 year goal either, which was at that time getting 1 commission.
People around me thought I was lazy that I didn't want a real life non art related job, that I was comfy behind the computer wasting away time - which is true for a lot of us in a sense :P- But the fact is... I wanted to stay positive, to own all those people, to show that I can do it on my own, to live the dream, to make it come true. To visualise it - smell it - feel it. I never wanted to be put in a negative spiral of a 9-5 job. I wanted to live my life the way I wanted it, and not what other people wanted me to be. That was hard though.
I never gave up, and never will. This is as much a part of me as it is of you!! It's something we are striving for, maybe even more so than other people. We work on it every day, sometimes succeeding and other times failing.
I read a book a couple of months ago stating that if you think about what you want most and visualise you working on it, succeeding in it, you will send out positive vibes and you will get what you want eventually. It might sound a bit silly, but it's a thing that sorta keeps me going, you know? I don't care so much anymore what other people say. I just turn off the switch and think about that sentence.
Think positive. Think about how much you love drawing, how much creativity you feel rushing through you, how free you feel when you pick up the pencil and opening the sketchbook.
You can do it! WE can do it :) All takes time, but never let anything or anyone stop you from doing what you love most.
I started my art journey two years ago, in 2012. I studied graphic design & art and design for 6 years - graduated, in the hope that any school would accept me as an illustrator. NOT. I never learned shit at that school. In those 6 years I had one 2h anatomy lesson. I wasted ALL my teenage years and adolescent years there drawing logo's and random company bullsheet until I was 21. School just told me I was ''below average with drawing and I should give up on drawing ''
Give up on the dream i wanted to reach that blossomed when i was 13 until now- and do something else felt impossible. After school I asked my parents if I could get 3 months off to work on art because I couldn't let go, but my parents never supported me with becoming a concept artist/ illustrator, because its not a job where you use your hands and legs to do something '' productive '' so they were pushing me to get real jobs and this and that. I tried to ignore it all for as long as I could but there was so much pressure from everywhere around me. I felt the clock bashing against my head, literally K.O'ing me every second. My art was improving, but I was failing at the same time. I never reached my 1 year goal either, which was at that time getting 1 commission.
People around me thought I was lazy that I didn't want a real life non art related job, that I was comfy behind the computer wasting away time - which is true for a lot of us in a sense :P- But the fact is... I wanted to stay positive, to own all those people, to show that I can do it on my own, to live the dream, to make it come true. To visualise it - smell it - feel it. I never wanted to be put in a negative spiral of a 9-5 job. I wanted to live my life the way I wanted it, and not what other people wanted me to be. That was hard though.
I never gave up, and never will. This is as much a part of me as it is of you!! It's something we are striving for, maybe even more so than other people. We work on it every day, sometimes succeeding and other times failing.
I read a book a couple of months ago stating that if you think about what you want most and visualise you working on it, succeeding in it, you will send out positive vibes and you will get what you want eventually. It might sound a bit silly, but it's a thing that sorta keeps me going, you know? I don't care so much anymore what other people say. I just turn off the switch and think about that sentence.
Think positive. Think about how much you love drawing, how much creativity you feel rushing through you, how free you feel when you pick up the pencil and opening the sketchbook.
You can do it! WE can do it :) All takes time, but never let anything or anyone stop you from doing what you love most.