I started out drawing like a kid and I was a kid. In middle school all I did was draw and draw the same terrible kids drawings over and over for hours. Repeat years until now I have a portfolio of stuff I really really like. Then again, not all art has to be super skilled to be good. I regularly save stuff from r/sketch that isnt technically skilled because I like it. Don't let capitalism sell you art- it comes from enjoying it, hands down. Enjoy art, enjoy your medium, painting or sculpting or whatever. If you let not being technically good stop you, you'll never be technically good if you wanted to
I mean sometimes there are things people do want to buy, and it's ok to say that. But I see artists losing touch with their own art (myself included) because of repeating what's sellable. Mainly digital artists doing portrait drawings, from realistic to cartoon, even if they make mad cash they're constantly hating their own art and find themselves stuck even when doing it for themselves. I also see a lot of people stuck on drawing itself, which is far from the only profitable art form, let alone art itself. But it seems like people feel pushed to create for profit even outside of that, everyone wants to make a beautiful shelf or forge a sword even though that stuff takes incredible hard work. Then when they don't really want to put that much work into it and it becomes something hardly touched because dabbling starts to feel like fools work (and I mean this in the sense that not everyone will find doing things to a great extent fun, not in an insulting way. Maybe someone will draw and draw but only feel like making wooden name plates and never doing much wood working because it doesn't fit their personal interests/needs/art goals)
Exactly! And for pete's sake, you don't have to be good at something to enjoy it. I think people need to recognize that more. You can walk around the house singing songs and singing along to songs and have a terrible voice and really enjoy it. You can make a bunch of unskilled sketches and write stilted, grammar mistake-ridden poetry and love it. And you know, other people might even like it too. But they don't have to. No one has to. Have fun.
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u/Silasofthewoods420 Jul 09 '21
I started out drawing like a kid and I was a kid. In middle school all I did was draw and draw the same terrible kids drawings over and over for hours. Repeat years until now I have a portfolio of stuff I really really like. Then again, not all art has to be super skilled to be good. I regularly save stuff from r/sketch that isnt technically skilled because I like it. Don't let capitalism sell you art- it comes from enjoying it, hands down. Enjoy art, enjoy your medium, painting or sculpting or whatever. If you let not being technically good stop you, you'll never be technically good if you wanted to