Motivation is fickle. Discipline tiresome & inauthentic. Why do you want to make art? Truthfully? And what is it that stops you from doing that? #painter #artists #paintingideas
this was something I felt but it wasn't enough to keep going, I would find myself only finishing a piece every few months and suffering all the while. Thinking I was incompetent enough for not having an immediate impulse to draw more or finish pieces.
I used to paint a lot, I enjoyed it. But since I started working full time, and career is progressing, the hobby met its end. I wish one day I could start again.
Just start it again! Maybe take a class to force you to give some time. I've just started again because I had a similar break because of working full-time, but then took some classes and now I paint at least once a week
@@sara-stinabergstedt3019 I concur, classes help with motivation so much.. The enthusiasm is infectious.. Also paying some money for the class makes sure you show up. Whereas at home you may not have bothered wetting a brush, despite having all the best intentions. Once that passion has been re-ignited and set off down the road, a person can find the time even if it means waking an hr earlier to do some painting before work. Only problem then is without kids and a spouse to keep you aware of the time, you could find yourself regularly late 😂
So relatable.. especially when you do not have a studio or table that's always ready for session. Setting up the space to paint every single time amid the full-time job, meals, children, chores is debilitating for me. Because once I set the space, I don't know if I'll be able to sit down and paint without any form of interruption.
Hi! You just hit a painfull spot. Art used to be my life, my breathing. But I was forced to go to art school, and I ended traumatized, with my imagination destroyed and fear of the white paper. Years later I now draw and paint because I miss all the good doing my art used to give me. But I can't receive almost anything good. Maybe you know how to unlock something that is inside and used to be so natural, my daily basis. I miss it
If there’s a true longing in you to make art, than things will happen naturally. And if there isn’t anymore - there’s nothing wrong with that as well. There’s no right or wrong, no rules. A good question to ask oneself may be - Why do I want to make art? Don’t believe any immediate answer you get. Let the question seep in. Let it do its thing. If you find the true reason, things will clear up (: Don’t believe anything I say. Find out for yourself ❤️
@@LironYan huge thanks liron. I kinda needed to hear this words of yours. Maybe I don't need to make art, for life itself is a piece of artwork. I Send you my best wishes, keep with your content, is excellent 👌😘
Amazing. Maybe I need to keep it just for myself. Or maybe I’m too afraid it won’t go anywhere. Either way my motivation is to just see the beautiful colors in my mind on paper
Omg your words makes so much sense! I ‘ve been unconditionally love art my whole like since childhood, and i though it’s “cool”. Now after becoming an artist I lost my motivation 😢. I think for me being good at making art is a personal desire, some sort of lust and obsessions for cool and beautiful things , but my soul just always lean towards helping others. Helping others makes me even happier than being praised as a good artist …. So i ‘m thinking to go to medical field, but i don’t want to give up on art and i want to be REALLY REALLY good at art&design 😢
I started making art because it was a way for me to show my love for animated series, movies, comics, and video games through fanart. I decided to study it in college because my grandmother said I needed a degree and I heard you could make a living in the animation industry. When I went to college, it didn't turn out to be what I thought it would. There's so much going on rn w ai art, bad reviews on almost every new animated film that comes out, job layoffs, that I genuinely don't understand how anyone can have fun doing this for a living. I tried to be an artist (3D animator, character designer) in the industry, but it hasn't worked out because my fundamentals are still subpar, even though I've been taking college courses and watching tutorials for seven years now. I turned 24 last month, and all I'm really good at is drawing other people's characters I like or copying photos. I hate anything that I create. That pretty much guarantees I can't make art my career because you HAVE to do your own thing to succeed. I haven't figured out what i want to do with my art yet because I'll pick up a new medium, try it for a few days, maybe weeks, then move on to something else. I'll still keep making fanart when I have free time, but i can't seem to take it seriously enough to do my own thing.
I can only speak for myself. After over 30 years as a working artist with 2 degrees in fine art and a degree in graphic art, I was also very involved with my practice as a Buddhist. After my prayers one day, the realization hit me like a ton of bricks that all my life I had used art to cover up what a SHALLOW, EGO BOUND, PRETENTIOUS PERSON THAT WAS OBSESSED WITH AN IDOL---ART. FOR YEARS I HAD WALKED AROUND ALWAYS OBSESSED WITH WANTING TO PERFECT MY ART. For the first time in my life, I knew that what I really needed was to drop the face of a person that was totally lacking in compassion, hung up on trivia and unable to find any kind of happiness. I ended up burning all the work I ever did along with my art supplies, my books. Now I am involved with actually being able to connect with other people. I am no longer lonely. My main area of interest is working with people that have PTSD. The world has enough artists, I am sure that it doesn't need me !
Omg your words makes so much sense! I ‘ve been unconditionally love art my whole life since childhood, and i though it’s “cool”. Now after becoming an artist I lost my motivation 😢. I think for me being good at making art is a personal desire, some sort of lust and obsessions for cool and beautiful things , but my soul just always lean towards helping others. Helping others makes me even happier than being praised as a good artist …. So i ‘m thinking to go to medical field, but i don’t want to give up on art (I’m 33 btw)and i want to be REALLY REALLY good at art&design 😢 How do you letting it go ?
I don’t really have a motivation for it. I don’t want to become a paid artist, I don’t even have any motive besides that I love art. And the path of creating art is a puzzle! Learning how objects and figures work besides how my mind has tricked me they work, is the most fun! I simply enjoy the feeling of learning art. But that’s a difficult thing to have as motivation, since it’s easily crushed my other “more important” things…
lack of confidence and or knowing the direction to take slows my progress Having a mentor helps to motivate me and makes me more accountable to accomplish something
I find that my knowledge of art fundamentals is improving faster than my ability to put them into practice on paper. The goal posts keep moving; what I would've been satisfied with a year or two ago no longer feels like enough.
Thank you. I make art because it makes me happy and blows up the skirt of my Muse. I need more motivation to eat and sleep, as she appears to have priority over *everything.*
I wanna make art, study art anatomy BECAUSE I want to be able to create any poses from any angle freely. Doesn't have to be 100% perfect. But that is my answer.
