greetings frank! i love all the work you do as a blogger. i have some art for you to critique!
this is two pieces from my motivation series. it's supposed to make you feel motivated creatively when you look at this art. how do you feel when you look at this art?
For this one, I feel like it would really only be effective if you already agreed with the basic premise. If you already have a lot of drive, you might enjoy looking at the art, but if you're like me (pretty deflated) and have no inner firepower, I don't really feel like this inspires me to get to work on anything.
Not that there's anything wrong with feeling inspired by motivational art. It just seems like you need to have a lot of confidence in yourself to be able to absorb that.
I know from experience that a lot of people feel deflated, despite the fact that they ought to be passionate about life. This is a problem worth addressing.
I suspect the problem is not, as this series claims, that people are passionless. In most cases, they have passions but they're frustrated because they feel like their passions aren't "realistic" (for various definitions of the word).
Imagine a 20-year-old with a passion for being a fashion model. Or a 30-year-old girl who wants to star in a romantic comedy. By the standards of our culture, these are unrealistic goals, and one often hears deflated people confess that they don't follow their dreams because they're "realistic" and "practical." The implication here is that to live a passionate, fulfilling life, you have to make it unrealistic, not realistic.
