the amount of times i have found myself explaining to kids that the reason they are experiencing burnout is because they are trying to self-teach themselves how to draw by skipping fundamentals and going straight into trying to force a "style", getting frustrated when they don't understand the techniques in which the style is grounded, and refusing to engage in workshops or other settings in which they can receive peer feedback is unreal.
it's like they're trying to bake a cake based on photos of cakes and don't understand why guessing the measurements isn't producing a cake that looks like one baked by someone who used a cookbook. and then saying they're burnt out from cooking. no shit. open a cookbook.
