"The Art That You Like, Isn't Necessarily The Art That You Want To Create."

"The art that you like, isn't necessarily the art that you want to create."

That's a quote that I have stumbled upon one day on the internet, and it completely changed me. So much in art is about learning about yourself. Your strengths, weaknesses and preferences. For years, I believed what I wanted to draw are artworks filled with details, that someone can spend minutes looking at while discovering something they haven't noticed before. This led to this super daunting task of having to plan that, and knowing that the process of creating an artwork like that, will take me hours to finish. Knowing what awaits me, led to me procrastinating and never wanting to draw. Sometimes days, weeks or even months.

I believe it is important to challenge yourself, and do things that you don't want to do. However, that should only go so far. If that stops you completely from doing what you're doing, then you have to change that. Especially if it's just a hobby. It took me years, but eventually I realized that I do not have the patience for spending hours and hours on a single artwork. Not that I don't enjoy the process of drawing itself, but more than anything, I love finishing artworks. I love the feeling of moving on constantly, and being able to look back at a long list of drawings that I have accomplished.

To achieve that, my art became a lot more abstract, simplified and messier. But I think it also has become more personal that it ever has been before. My art now reflects my impatience. My flaws, be it anatomy, perspective or coloring. It's all there, but what it did is make drawing fun again.

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I saw this and thought of how this resonated a lot with my experience doing digital art and putting that out on the internet I've liked working on every art work Ive posted thus far but by god do they take a lot of time! And the length of time im spending on them I am not enjoying thats probably exasebated by the fact that I also have a full time job and a partner who I want to spend time with so my time for art is somewhat limited But I really appreciate you posting this Last Night Story it really got me to think! Maybe I'll make a longer blog post about this myself on my site later... glampost

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