a few words to my fellow artists and writers
Any time I talk to you, or any time you send me compliments, I hear you compare us at best - knock yourselves down at worst. “Wow! You’re so good!” You say. “Everything I draw sucks!” “My drabbles are so lame!”
The creative pursuits have long since become synonymous with casual self-deprecation. I know that. We’re all our own worst critics. And the advent of the internet and social networks that attract artists doesn’t help. It’s easy to go look at Adam Hughes’ DeviantART page and want to crawl in a hole and die. It’s easy to reblog a featured image and wonder why you don’t have their talent - their genius - their whatever.
What I’d like to remind you of, though, is that you’re not getting accurate data. You’re getting a skewed representation of the general population. The internet is saturated with creative types. Designers, photographers, freelance writers - they’re around every corner on some blog or another, and it can make you forget what an uncommon thing an artistic eye really is. The vast majority of people are going to be scribbling stick figures for the rest of their lives. The vast majority of people are unpublished. So if you can draw a face and make it look like a face - if you can describe something with the right words - you are something special.
Wherever you are now - and wherever you will go as you improve - love it!
theartofmadeline
janainaart
vaporwave
kianamaiart
