The neverending spiral of being an artist on social media:
*Have a cool idea*
*See someone else execute cool idea better than you think you can*
*Never attempt cool idea*
Take this as a sign to try the cool idea anyway. Do it out of spite if you must. No one makes art quite like you. 💚
#Art
*Have a cool idea*
*See someone else execute cool idea better than you think you can*
*Never attempt cool idea*
Take this as a sign to try the cool idea anyway. Do it out of spite if you must. No one makes art quite like you. 💚
#Art
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So express yourself with your art don't allow what others have done chill you just go ahead do it your way.
Deep impact / Armageddon
Volcano / Dante's Peak
White house down / Olympus has fallen
And so on
And diss tracks came in inked prose long before Kendrik.
You pretty much gotta create what you think will be popular 2-3 years ahead of time.
If you basing it on something just released you already 3 years behind the curve.
whenever that happens to me and i feel like throwing that cool idea away, i just can't.
i've spent way too much time developing that cool idea that it's way too big to fit in the trash.
It helps that she is one of my favorite living artists too (Robin F Williams)
My advice: Art is subjective, and it’s about YOU, and YOUR self expression. If other people enjoy seeing YOU self actualize, great; but it’s actually none of their business. 🥰
*Have cool idea*
*Realize physical challenges prevent actually implementing cool idea*
*Share description of cool idea somewhere so it has a chance to exist anyway*
I become so angry with myself for wanting to do something but not having the motivation because it's already been done before by other artists. What would I even add to the world by doing the thing? Suffering from brain garbage.
So what can we offer if everything’s been done? Only our personal take on a concept. As artists, the best thing we can do is to learn the fundamentals well enough to put ourselves into our work. 🥰
Also a lot of ideas have been done, but has YOUR take on an idea been done?
Is that just me?
Like sometimes I don't want it to be anything more.
Because in my head I make it way cooler than it could actually be 😆
I have an extremely vibrant and detailed imagination, it's a bit of a double sword.
It allows me to envision really cool ideas, but sometimes I can envision it so well that it defeats the purpose of doing it.
I make art to help me figure out what I'm trying to think of.
If I can already think of it and see it, I struggle to find the motivation to make it.
Maybe I'm just weird lol
I sometimes know exactly what technique or steps I need to do and it can take the fun out of it for me at least.
It starts to feel like work when I can layout the step-by-step processes 😆
I've stopped playing games, watching shows, movies, even listening to music... ect.
I have this issue where if I think I've explored 80% of something, I kinda drop it for awhile and sometimes all together.
I read four pages of Twilight, one day, and I'm like "I literally couldn't do worse if I tried."
And now I'm writing my fourth book.
Is this a people-pleasing response counterproductive to my own success? Probably.
I do sort of die inside when I see people with 110K followers known for painting a single shape on a canvas or just pouring paint and letting it dry. Meanwhile I spend days slogging through a painting that gets 12 likes.
Weird being an artist out here.
Saw someone had already done it, complete with proper sets and outfits.
Now I only look up titles to make sure they're not already used.
I felt this when I was working as a researcher as well.
It really does take mental discipline to focus on the methodical process vs. the product.
One thing im doing lately is allowing myself to be a beginner and mess up. Doesn't mean you make bad art. Even the best artists doubt themselves.
imagine if he never tried because his idol existed
The Boys would prove this 6 years later.
But if you don't write and put out you don't get nowt.