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~shade99
Hello there!
This is me. I'm a fairly versatile musically-inclined artsy type person furfag people creature.
I occasionally post some pictures and recordings. Not writing, which needs to live elsewhere. Think artistic thoughts on your stay to maximise enjoyment.
Finally I'd like to credit the all-fluffy Swiftcutter for the iconographic avatar picture. Thank you!
This is me. I'm a fairly versatile musically-inclined artsy type person furfag people creature.
I occasionally post some pictures and recordings. Not writing, which needs to live elsewhere. Think artistic thoughts on your stay to maximise enjoyment.
Finally I'd like to credit the all-fluffy Swiftcutter for the iconographic avatar picture. Thank you!
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The Gap
6 years ago
Three unwatches by my count. Not sure how to feel about that, because I am perpetually unsure about just about everything. I've been nervously refreshing my page here yesterday night, afraid of ruffling feathers. I know--self-conscious about being harsh about the far-right, I know...
But that's how it's always been for me. Before speaking my mind, I'd always double-triple-quadruple check everything, and whenever something bad happens or someone attacks me or nearly runs me over, my gut reaction tends to be, Was this my fault?
A history of bullying and systematic abuse will do that to you.
When I hone and perfect a project and finish months of dedicated labour the one-day high inevitably turns to utter disappointment, watching the weeds tumble, no matter how often it's happened before. And I think to an extent this is part and parcel to the artist's life: rarely are we satisfied with what we've accomplished, and all too often do we look at our work in disgust. We even loathe our own self-pity, knowing well enough this is the most disrespected trait an artist can have.
Well, visual art has always been more accessible and, in relative terms at least, easier to measure progress in. So, that's what I'd like to talk about today.
I might post a photograph to my scraps at some point, but over the past six years or so I've collected a great many full watercolour sketchbooks for my bookcase. That's well over two-thousand paintings; maybe closer to three-thousand. Not counting the 20+ years of artistic experience preceding it, that's a lot of labour to get to where I am right now.
I am an okay artist - not great; not bad. If you're just starting out and you see the skill gap that exists between the best in the field and your own mettle, I know how intimidating that can feel. And if you think you can out-cringe me, I suspect you can't out-cringe anyone. Go back in my FA gallery to the early pages and then, even then I will tell you I was far, far worse than that before.
No claims of staggering insights here, but in most cases, this is simply the dedication required to get close to good in a field. What we must do, and continue to do then, is to find and nurture what makes us create. It might seem like the world at large, ourselves included, wants us to give up, but I don't believe that. I think we're artists, and we can't but create. So, say something nice about yourself, treasure your ideas, and hone your craft - plod on in discipline, if that's the only way for you to do it right now. For every hundred cringeworthy sketches there's an origami cranebird waiting to take flight.
Okay, maybe that was a stupid way of putting it, but then I never claimed to have a great point here. Just... don't be discouraged by a lack of skill or experience, that's all. Being good is not nearly as esoteric a destination as you might think it is.
But that's how it's always been for me. Before speaking my mind, I'd always double-triple-quadruple check everything, and whenever something bad happens or someone attacks me or nearly runs me over, my gut reaction tends to be, Was this my fault?
A history of bullying and systematic abuse will do that to you.
When I hone and perfect a project and finish months of dedicated labour the one-day high inevitably turns to utter disappointment, watching the weeds tumble, no matter how often it's happened before. And I think to an extent this is part and parcel to the artist's life: rarely are we satisfied with what we've accomplished, and all too often do we look at our work in disgust. We even loathe our own self-pity, knowing well enough this is the most disrespected trait an artist can have.
Well, visual art has always been more accessible and, in relative terms at least, easier to measure progress in. So, that's what I'd like to talk about today.
I might post a photograph to my scraps at some point, but over the past six years or so I've collected a great many full watercolour sketchbooks for my bookcase. That's well over two-thousand paintings; maybe closer to three-thousand. Not counting the 20+ years of artistic experience preceding it, that's a lot of labour to get to where I am right now.
I am an okay artist - not great; not bad. If you're just starting out and you see the skill gap that exists between the best in the field and your own mettle, I know how intimidating that can feel. And if you think you can out-cringe me, I suspect you can't out-cringe anyone. Go back in my FA gallery to the early pages and then, even then I will tell you I was far, far worse than that before.
No claims of staggering insights here, but in most cases, this is simply the dedication required to get close to good in a field. What we must do, and continue to do then, is to find and nurture what makes us create. It might seem like the world at large, ourselves included, wants us to give up, but I don't believe that. I think we're artists, and we can't but create. So, say something nice about yourself, treasure your ideas, and hone your craft - plod on in discipline, if that's the only way for you to do it right now. For every hundred cringeworthy sketches there's an origami cranebird waiting to take flight.
Okay, maybe that was a stupid way of putting it, but then I never claimed to have a great point here. Just... don't be discouraged by a lack of skill or experience, that's all. Being good is not nearly as esoteric a destination as you might think it is.
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