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this journal I'm really jealous of you artists out there. You show so much passion, are forever improving and trying out new things... I wish I had that passion to improve in my artwork. I'm good at art, yes, but I'm not brilliant. I'm like that with a lot of things such as playing the piano and doing Graphic Design, but I'm not brilliant at either of those things.
I just want to be "brilliant" at something, just like you guys are brilliant at art and would do everything and anything to improve in your skills. I really wish I was good at art but I'm such a lazy arse that I prefer just sitting down doing nothing. I do get those days where I feel really good and draw pretty decent stuff but for the past couple of months I haven't really had the inspiration or the will to do so.
I think another reason is that I don't take things seriously. If I did take things seriously then I would actually be getting somewhere but I'm just too laid back. I need someone to kick me up the ass to get me into gear because... I want to improve, I want to be good, but I don't know where to start. I guess I could buy books but then I know I'll get bored after a couple of days and would abandon the willpower to improve, to set back into my lazy routine.
Does anyone know how they could help me on this? I do want to try, but I just know that I'm going to be lazy. But maybe I still could improve even in my lazy state?
Could you help me, please?
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i think motivation and reason is the things that make you keep going.. it'll create your goal.. ^-^ because i think there'll no goal if there's no reason.. i don't think the reason like "because i want to" "because it'll cool" is one real reason C: but try to stay on the ground
for inspiration~ i think it actually something that come to you when you least expect it
and never forced yourself.. i think unlike other things art is not something that can be forced.. you'll find yourself stress out if you think you can create amazing art every single day~
that at least i think.. in DA "amazing artist" usually not upload "amazing art" everyday
you have to practice everyday of course because consistent is a great thing, but i think doodle/sketch every day in your free time will do and you have to have fun while do so
okey mostly i'm only mumbling aren't i? but i think you'll ok
Okay! I've got an A4 sketchpad that I would use, although I'm worried that it's too big to carry around with me ;__;
That's a very good point! I think I was forcing myself to do art which made me feel really stressed out about i t>_>
I shall do my best! ^^ Thank you so much for your help
Think about it like this....if you study like 1 hour of anatomy you would become really famous on deviant art and you will be amazing (or whatever the reason you want), would you do it? You would probably be really happy to do it, but the thing is that you are not thinking like that, the truth is that that 1 hour of anatomy will be a step towards the next thing and the next and the next, but since you are not seing it, you get discouraged. Plan out things better and just take it step by step, I know the process is long as hell and it seems like is never ending but atleast this way you can actually see how you are progressing, kinda like a videogame. You see your guy reach lv 1 then lv 2 if you keep working him it might take you a while but you know you will eventually reach lv 100. Plan things out and always remember the reasons why you want to improve and if they are good enough, you will be really happy to improve.
So if I created a goal, say, to learn anatomy by the end of the month do you think that would help me? Or shall I create more goals like learn lighting effectively by the end of the week? I think that if I do these things I should submit them here and make sure that people could critique them... Would that help me out?
Now I think about that and I want to work hard lmao. But just saying, "Imma study so I can get a lot of money" That won't really get my heart started to really motivate myself to draw cause I dont even know what "a lot of money", that's not a clear objective. Find your goal, and where you really want to be at and exactly why you want it. Keep asking yourself a lot of questions until you find good reasons. It has to be something deep, really take your time and think about how good you want to be and how your life will be like if you were as good as you want to be, imagine everything, when you wake up, the things you will do, the people you will meet,what you will eat, just EVERYTHING, as much as you can. Just imagine one whole day with your new skill, how everything will be like, the best possible scenario, how you want everything to be, just imagine you are God and you can do anything! It has to be like that. Then that will get you excited cause you will think that if you actually work hard you will get all those thing and the truth is you will, you just gotta plan it right and not give up.
Ok let's take that anatomy goal for example, it probably started on something like this " I want to draw amazing anatomy so my characters can look realistic and they can move great when I draw them" Goal #1. Study human anatomy, Goal#2 Study shading and coloring, Goal #3 Study portrait, Goal #4 study facial expressions and hands expressions. Ok, for the next 2 months I will work on human anatomy, Month#1 I will study Human anatomy book#1 , week#1 i will study page 1-30, week2 i will study pg 30-60, week 3 pg 60-90, week 4 pg 90-120. Monday i will study the first 5 pgs, Tuesday I will study the next 4, Wednesday the next 4 etc. i know it seems like a lot of work, but doing this will get you incredably focused, it might take you a couple hours but is not like you plan this everyday, and once you have your plan setup you yourself will get up and do all thise because you know EXACTLY what to start, so you wont waste any time at all because your brain will be very focused on what it needs to do and if you ever get lazy, just take a moment and read your goals and imagine that this is just part of what you need to do to acheive the big goal.
And yeah you can submit them or you can just draw and draw, me for example, I dont submit my sketches but when I feel like I am not improving, I get my old sketch books and I just look at them and start to analyze and WOW I see how much I improved month to month, it keeps you from thinking that you are not improving and you can see the feedback yourself and see hoe much your hard work really paid off! You can also submit them here and have people critique them, some people learn really well with critiques, if you find it helps you, sure you can do that too.
Wow, that's a brilliant idea! I was thinking of my goals yesterday and I decided that by the end of this month I would be able to understand the effects of light (colour theory). The thing is that I don't know where to look in order ro learn this~
Okay! I'll do that then. I have a tumblr art blog now which I keep on private so that I could analyse my progress ^^ Thank you so much for helping! ^^