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Published: 2013-12-31 19:57:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 3166; Favourites: 92; Downloads: 1
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Last painting of the year. Its quite simple, but I tried to include many things I learned or grew fond of during 2013(pitch black hair, big ears, blue color schemes, painting lips etc...)
I improved a lot this year and hopefully will continue to do so during the next as well.
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It's so clean, yet it has such a realistic feel to it! Your style is quite gorgeous and inspiring!
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Even in the short time I've watched you, you've improved so much so fast! It's so inspiring to see. May 2014 bring even more wonderful artwork forth from your mind & your hands~
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Aw, thank you!
I think this was the year I finally got "serious" about art, and it shows.
I've had so much fun (and not so much fun as well) learning new things. c-:
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You're welcome! c:
Oh, by "serious" do you mean that you were actively trying to improve each day? How was that year different from before?
So great that putting forth great effort can bring forth great happiness, isn't it? :>
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More like I didn't give up every time I made a mistake, and overall developed a healthier attitude towards art.
I used to take really long breaks from drawing and painting because it made me so frustrated and angry to fail over and over again...
I even hardly sketched because I felt a huge pressure to make my sketchbook look "pretty".
So maybe "serious" was a wrong word, I guess it's more that my work ethic became more learning-oriented rather than accomplishment-oriented.
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Oh, I understand. You've bid adieu to your fear of producing crap. Crap is the only way to get good, after all.
I think it's very healthy to shed self-imposed limitations! And what new technique looks crap today might become refined and fabulous by the end of the week, or month, or year, or whatever.
The funny thing is, I think people with that learning mentality are more likely to become accomplished, because they're producing more consistently and trying to get better but not for the external motivation of "I've become accomplished." So I guess it's the accomplishment-oriented person's curse to bear...
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Yeah, exactly!
But the good thing is that you really can affect and change the way you think about these things,
and learn to recognize that some fears and "rules" are just things you made up in your head and
in no way portray the "true" situation - and shouldn't therefore limit your actions.
I'm still afraid of producing crap and get frustrated with myself, but I've learned to accept those feelings
and know better how to handle them by seeing them as just one part of the overall learning/art process.
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It's so true, about rules you make up in your head--you think they will help you make better art but they just put you in a box and bring you down. If I may relate an example from my life--I realized I'd beat myself up over the stupidest things. So what if I don't know how to draw this angle from memory?! So what if I can't draw this pose right off the bat?! That's why you find a friend, find a mirror, find a stock photograph online and learn how to do it right... Because I could draw faces from memory, I thought I should be able to do everything that way (ofc they gained better structure when I used a ref). I'd be naïve to think that the majority of the artworks I admire were drawn solely from the imagination. Frustration is so silly when there's ample reference around. I learned so much more when I humbled myself.
On one hand, it's disappointing to draw something you're actually feeling shame over (occasionally I draw something in my sketchbook that looks like my 12-year-old self made it and it always always shocks me) but on the other hand, there's absolutely nothing that says you have to tell someone or not paint over the drawing or do something completely different and new. It's the same mindset as throwing away those self-imposed rules. As long as producing a little crap work doesn't stop you in your tracks, I'd say you've gained a lot of maturity when it comes to creating. :')
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