Don't be discouraged...
I wrote the entry below in my sketchbook/journal today. I'm at the tail end of my sinus/ear infection extravaganza, so maybe my mood was a bit low. I'm working on a few top secret projects lately and felt a bit discouraged today, but I'm pushing through it...
What do you do when it all seems discouraging - this big art thing?
Like everyone else is better than you, and all your ideas have been done before...
Like sometimes you don't know what to SAY with your artwork, because everything good/interesting/inspiring has already been said and done to death.
You go online and see artists who are younger than you and are WAY more successful than you think you'll ever be.
What do you do with the bad feeling in the pit of your stomach and those negative voices that tell you that you shouldn't quit your day job, not now, not ever?
*Breathe. Realize that you're not the only one with these doubts.
*Focus. Push everything else aside - the negative voices, the instinct to COMPARE yourself to other artists.
*Don't give up on the dream: it's your goal, it's your life.
--> Back the the drawing board for me.
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I guess this whole artistic doubt thing is something that every artist goes through from time to time... What are some of your coping mechanisms that get you back into the sketchbook or onto the easel after a period of melancholy and doubt?
Source: http://howtomakeart.blogspot.com/2011/07/artistic-doubts.html
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