Art tip:
Art and the feeling what you have created is terrible.
When you look at something inspiring, or have an inspiring idea, you may also create in your mind a perfect artwork from that starting point. This is in itself a creation, I recommend you admire it and then dismiss it. It is made of thought, which is very fine stuff indeed. When you come to create a work of art in the real world, with matter, which is very crude stuff indeed, it will never be the same. Constant comparison is the road to hating everything you do. Instead try to create on the page, in the moment, as you go, with the crude materials of the physical world. It’s a new thing, enjoy it at the moment of creating. A thousand years of practice with a pencil will not make it measure up to imagination, so don’t compare it with imagination, compare it with the other works in pencil you have created in the past. Is it better? Then you are in the proses of becoming a better artist. Try to enjoy the process, admire the thing that you are creating, it didn’t exist before, it enriches us all, it’s unique, it’s yours, it does not have to look like your earlier mind creation - not at all!
I hope this helps. I seldom hate my art, it’s almost always a source of joy. I write to try to export that to others, not to belittle anyone’s struggles. Some will argue I am not self critical enough to be truly great at art, but I have not quit in despair as so many do, so perhaps my way has some worth too.
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