Trying to commit to it. I have forgotten how good is to focus on something rewarding.
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- 11 days
All those influencers who said you have to draw every day or you lose the skill? Forget them. You’re rocking better forms and shading than me at my best.
- BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish11 days
I went to an art highschool and uni for art. What I saw was that you either have a super amazing talent or you just stay mediocre.
Practising daily doesn’t seem to do much for the overall work, maybe just for getting to know the medium. I think when people are young and practise daily, the improvement they see is their age more than time spent- 11 days
I really hope you’re wrong. I spent a long time at one level, and about a year ago did an Inktober and broke through to the next level. It could be having consciously improved my process, but it could also just be age. Not sure.
- akavel@piefed.socialEnglish10 days
What I’d say, is don’t worry and don’t get discouraged. I’m sure there must be photographic memory artists, but a question is what you want to achieve. You can still be a great artist without photographic memory, there were, are, and will be many. For sure not every artist has photographic memory. Also, with training you will start unblocking skills and talents in your brain that you didn’t expect before you might have. I couldn’t sing well, I was unable to match a tone, but I loved singing (uh) and started learning and gradually got to a level where I could lead a voice or sing it alone in a church choir and heard compliments from various singers. Now I’m learning to paint watercolors since 2 years, and unexpectedly to me my line drawing also starts improving. Often I am frustrated by my drawings or paintings but sometimes I am surprised how this or that one somehow looks so good! Sometimes feeling not under my control if ends up good or bad 🤷♂️ I went into it with the same attitude as you: let’s just keep practicing, with time it must start slowly improving. Well, it does! Annoyingly glacially slowly (at least in my perception), but definitely does. There will be always “better” artists; but you start discovering that you have a different voice, a different eye, and there are people who honestly resonate with your artworks, even if you feel yours are “worse”. Not everyone, but some do. And not every piece, but some. (I literally had a friend single out one drawing as something she really liked, completely unprompted, when before a “learned artist” grilled me over it so much that I lost desire to draw for half a year.) This also gives some validation, and helps persevere through those who complain or say nothing, or who say nice but only to be nice.
10 daysI spent 2 years drawing a comic, did basically nothing else most days (stopped due to health issues, desperate to continue). I definitely improved SO MUCH (without setting out to do so), it’s hard to look at the early pages now. I am also not exactly young.
The notion that doing something, anything, a lot and often would not improve your skill is wild to me.
- 11 days
Not OP, but art (and music in a similar way) are things that are easy to sideline for general life stuff. You get involved in your career, have kids, maybe your parents or other family members need more of your free time. Its hard as fuck to make time for something that’s not critical at certain stages of life
