06-06-2014, 03:29 AM
@Fedodika: yes! That is my favorite Will Terrel video. I have almost finished portuguese subtitles for it because the message is so important.. I'll try to finish it this month :) Hopefully I will make to the end of this.. sometimes I still think anxiety will get the best of me though. Thanks again <3
@Dennis: Yeah, indeed, I did lost sight of it. I was recently on a talk by an artist I admire very much (Tiago Hoisel: http://tiagohoisel.cgsociety.org/ ) and he was talking about respecting your own influences. The idea was almost alien to me, since I have been molding myself to make my skill useful at any cost. It's weird; I though I was never going to get through this phase being a commercial artist.
But in the end, a commercial artist is just an artist too, it seems. No running away from it heh. And yeah, you're not the first one to tell me I need to work on my project. In all honesty - I'm not a writer. Took a me a while to be somewhat decent in art, and I'm scared if i start looking int writing, it will take another 6 to 8 years before I get anything half-decent done. So this is the reason I was avoiding "doing my own thing" in the first place. I don't even really know what my own thing would be; I definitely need to look into that. Probably, as Will Terrel said, the answer is in my sketchbook, I just need to spend more time there.
And YES I'm so going to break the pattern. Thanks for the advice!
@Lyraina: Thanks again <3 But yeah, growing my visual library is a must, you're right. There is this one thing I have been avoiding... I'll just start it (today's study).
And yeah, it was easier to navigate though this when it was "right and wrong", but now it's more "good or better", "works or not" and it got.. cloudy. Didn't go well with insecurity.
I have been missing an environment with more artists even when I worked on the illustration studio. It was frustrating how the people there were more prone to tell me I was working too hard than anything; I never found a partner with similar goals. Most people around my age here are giving up or gave up on art; Now it's just a job, they don't want to get better at it, let alone pursue hard high-reaching goals. Makes me feel like a fool for even trying, but it's all I really have in the end. Giving up is not an option for a long time now, as lonely as it gets. Thanks heavens for Crimson Daggers and my circle of trust on the web, or I'd be running in the dark here.
@Meat: MAN! You know, when I was in Canada for the workshop, it was surprising that people HAD stuff on their wall, you know? It's uncommon here in where I live in. The whole cultural aspect of consuming art/paintings is lacking. Most of the art you see selling here is decorative/abstract... And I'm starting to suspect that makes a difference.
You're right, I'm going to get some prints and hand them around.
And yup, look at nature! Roger. Not giving up either!
You guys are the best, thanks for the awesome words and the time into this awesome replies.
Here, visual library development (please ignore how bad this is, it will take a while to make this work)
![[Image: Enviro-26.jpg]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1614971/Crimson%20Daggers%20sketchbook/Enviro-26.jpg)
@Dennis: Yeah, indeed, I did lost sight of it. I was recently on a talk by an artist I admire very much (Tiago Hoisel: http://tiagohoisel.cgsociety.org/ ) and he was talking about respecting your own influences. The idea was almost alien to me, since I have been molding myself to make my skill useful at any cost. It's weird; I though I was never going to get through this phase being a commercial artist.
But in the end, a commercial artist is just an artist too, it seems. No running away from it heh. And yeah, you're not the first one to tell me I need to work on my project. In all honesty - I'm not a writer. Took a me a while to be somewhat decent in art, and I'm scared if i start looking int writing, it will take another 6 to 8 years before I get anything half-decent done. So this is the reason I was avoiding "doing my own thing" in the first place. I don't even really know what my own thing would be; I definitely need to look into that. Probably, as Will Terrel said, the answer is in my sketchbook, I just need to spend more time there.
And YES I'm so going to break the pattern. Thanks for the advice!
@Lyraina: Thanks again <3 But yeah, growing my visual library is a must, you're right. There is this one thing I have been avoiding... I'll just start it (today's study).
And yeah, it was easier to navigate though this when it was "right and wrong", but now it's more "good or better", "works or not" and it got.. cloudy. Didn't go well with insecurity.
I have been missing an environment with more artists even when I worked on the illustration studio. It was frustrating how the people there were more prone to tell me I was working too hard than anything; I never found a partner with similar goals. Most people around my age here are giving up or gave up on art; Now it's just a job, they don't want to get better at it, let alone pursue hard high-reaching goals. Makes me feel like a fool for even trying, but it's all I really have in the end. Giving up is not an option for a long time now, as lonely as it gets. Thanks heavens for Crimson Daggers and my circle of trust on the web, or I'd be running in the dark here.
@Meat: MAN! You know, when I was in Canada for the workshop, it was surprising that people HAD stuff on their wall, you know? It's uncommon here in where I live in. The whole cultural aspect of consuming art/paintings is lacking. Most of the art you see selling here is decorative/abstract... And I'm starting to suspect that makes a difference.
You're right, I'm going to get some prints and hand them around.
And yup, look at nature! Roger. Not giving up either!
You guys are the best, thanks for the awesome words and the time into this awesome replies.
Here, visual library development (please ignore how bad this is, it will take a while to make this work)