02-21-2014, 08:55 PM
Ahh the thing is though, your satisfaction or dissatisfaction with your skill level is all well and good, and totally within your own control. You may not believe it, but it is true. We can choose to be satisfied or not, but there is nothing to say that reaching a certain level will give you an automatic feelgood state. If we ever settled with being satisfied with our skill we would all just end up as mediocre artists.
I really think the key to really improving quickly, if you can nail it early on, is enjoying the process no matter the result. It's like being a kid again...you know the first time you probably ever saw a reason to do art in the first place, but before you learned to fear the result. That's the state you want to achieve no matter your skill. :D. At least, that is what I believe from my own experience. Everything else is secondary.
I really think the key to really improving quickly, if you can nail it early on, is enjoying the process no matter the result. It's like being a kid again...you know the first time you probably ever saw a reason to do art in the first place, but before you learned to fear the result. That's the state you want to achieve no matter your skill. :D. At least, that is what I believe from my own experience. Everything else is secondary.