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Art, anyone?
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honeydevil
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creative but not really good!
i love to be creative, i love architecture, painting, drawing, actually everything related to art!!
i try to draw a lot of faces, but i still have a lot of problems with the shading and emotions!! i like to design new clothes!! yeah and i like poetry, i prefer the ryhmes, that has a special sound to it, i can't discribe it!!!
yeah but in the whole i try everything and can't do anything the way i want it!
i love to be creative, i love architecture, painting, drawing, actually everything related to art!!
i try to draw a lot of faces, but i still have a lot of problems with the shading and emotions!! i like to design new clothes!! yeah and i like poetry, i prefer the ryhmes, that has a special sound to it, i can't discribe it!!!
yeah but in the whole i try everything and can't do anything the way i want it!
cajunmama
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That's because you are judging the results by someone else's standards. If you like it, then it's good. Forget about perfection, it is an unattainable goal that only leads to failure. Do the best you can, have fun, be creative and rejoice in what you have done.honeydevl said:i try everything and can't do anything the way i want it!
honeydevil
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SillyWabbit said:Yeah, that's excatly it!
Just enjoy the act of creation. The only one you can measure yourself by is you
no no it isn't that way, it is just i have a picture in my head, but when i finished it lookes totally differen, i just hate that!! i want that it looks like my picture in my mind!!
Then you will NEVER be happy drawing or painting. That's not the way! Do you think that even the great artists paint exactly how they see things in their head? Go look at Van Gogh. His early paintings when he is just starting is RUBBISH. He is learning. He is doing it with a passion and painting, painting, painting! No matter how good you are, you will never see what is in your head.
What can you say? I can't create music like Mozart so I won't bother make music? I can't paint like Monet so I won't paint. I can't sing like ( insert pop star name ) so won't bother to sing????
Why do you create? Because, hopefully, it makes you happy. That is the reason to do it!!!! And that is the only reason to do it! There will ALWAYS no matter what you do be somebody better than you are. No way can you go through life comparing yourself to people. If you paint something then just judge by yourself. Was it better than the last one? Did this one turn out well? Did you improve on how you draw a tree for example? Are you happy with the colour balence? Be happy with what you have and what you can do and strive to improve. It's the only way and everybody, even the greatest artists, had to start that way
What can you say? I can't create music like Mozart so I won't bother make music? I can't paint like Monet so I won't paint. I can't sing like ( insert pop star name ) so won't bother to sing????
Why do you create? Because, hopefully, it makes you happy. That is the reason to do it!!!! And that is the only reason to do it! There will ALWAYS no matter what you do be somebody better than you are. No way can you go through life comparing yourself to people. If you paint something then just judge by yourself. Was it better than the last one? Did this one turn out well? Did you improve on how you draw a tree for example? Are you happy with the colour balence? Be happy with what you have and what you can do and strive to improve. It's the only way and everybody, even the greatest artists, had to start that way
honeydevil
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no it is not that i'm not happy with it, i just don't like the outcoming!! i have fun while i doing it and that's enough for me, other people make art for the public i just doing it for myself!!
But you still compare yourself to others work because you think you are not good enough that what is in your head is not what comes out but you should be happy with what you have done. You have given birth to something. It is your creation. It is your child and you should love it Art is a journey and not a destination.
Art is a journey and not a destination.
honeydevil
Active Member
SillyWabbit said:But you still compare yourself to others work because you think you are not good enough that what is in your head is not what comes out but you should be happy with what you have done. You have given birth to something. It is your creation. It is your child and you should love it
but if i don't like the outcome i won't put it in a frame and show everybody!! that's just the way i am!!
honeydevil
Active Member
SillyWabbit said:But why don't you like it?
don't ask me, it just looks like crap!! or sounds like crap or it is just crap!!
honeydevil
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we'll see, but thanks anyway!!cajunmama said:
cajunmama
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I'll be honest. Not many of the quilts I make end up looking like they way I thought them up at the beginning. Somehow, along the way, they change, I change this little thing, add that little thing, whatever. But when I have the finished quilt in front of me, it doesn't matter what it started out as and that it doesn't match the original idea exactly. What matters is the thing itself, the end, not the beginning.
honeydevil
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cajunmama said:
it is really nice of you, but believe me a lot of people tried to talk to me, i'm open-minded to everything, but when it comes to my abilities or creative skills i stuck in a box and can't go out!!
you know the difference between you and me is just that you like the endresult as that what it is, but i like the biginning better!! i think hours about the things i "create" and with every minute i think about it i get a more specific picture, it is like i create it in my mind but when i have to put it in something with color or wood or something else, it is not my creation anymore, because my artpiece developed in my mind!! hard to explain that, but maybe you could try to understand that stuff i'm talking you into!! 
novella
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The Mental Series
I come from a family of visual artists, back to my grandparents. Early graphic artists, architects, painters. I've always been viewed as the one with no visual talent, the Word Person.
When I was depressed a few years ago, I started doing oil-on-canvas self-portraits, each with a restricted palette, like ochres or blues. My mother-in-law gave me a great set of oils and some beautiful brushes, because she didn't know of my nonvisual reputation. She started painting when she was 55 and is brilliant. I thought painting would dislodge whatever was blocking me from enjoying things. Maybe it worked, or maybe I just got tired of being depressed. After a while I felt better and dropped the project.
The paintings are known in my family as the Mental Series. Nice, huh?
Last year I started an oil of my father and his brother on a marsh at about age 12, but I'm doing that so sporadically that my palette keeps drying out. I have no calling to it. I can't leave a writing project alone, but with a painting I can just walk away. And I have a problem with knowing when its finished.
I come from a family of visual artists, back to my grandparents. Early graphic artists, architects, painters. I've always been viewed as the one with no visual talent, the Word Person.
When I was depressed a few years ago, I started doing oil-on-canvas self-portraits, each with a restricted palette, like ochres or blues. My mother-in-law gave me a great set of oils and some beautiful brushes, because she didn't know of my nonvisual reputation. She started painting when she was 55 and is brilliant. I thought painting would dislodge whatever was blocking me from enjoying things. Maybe it worked, or maybe I just got tired of being depressed. After a while I felt better and dropped the project.
The paintings are known in my family as the Mental Series. Nice, huh?
Last year I started an oil of my father and his brother on a marsh at about age 12, but I'm doing that so sporadically that my palette keeps drying out. I have no calling to it. I can't leave a writing project alone, but with a painting I can just walk away. And I have a problem with knowing when its finished.