I have feelings to express but no creative skills. Nothing comes out as perfect as it is in one’s head. So is it even worth it to try?
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the value of art is in the act of creation
yes please make art!
i too felt like i am not a creative person and didn’t have any skill. started learning to draw a little over 2 years ago now and am enjoying the journey very much. no, i’m not very good (yet?), and i may never get to a “professional” standard, but i am enjoying it. it feels good to have an outlet and build my skill, learn things, and occasionally doodle something for someone that makes them happy even if it isn’t perfect or didn’t turn out exactly how i wanted. creative expression is a great gift to give yourself! i draw pretty much every day now and it has helped me immensely in many unexpected ways.
I’m a musician, but it’s the same for artists: you have to do it over and over and over, and eventually it starts to get better. No matter how old musicians get, they still practice those fundamentals - scales, chord progressions, intervals, etc. The idea that a musician just improvises beauty out of thin air is mostly an illusion. It’s really the product many, many hours of practice.
You want to sit down and create a work of art right out of your brain, but the reality is that most good art is the result of years of mastering the fundamentals, and then several drafts before it looks right.
I spent years playing scales, chords, riffs, etc., just to get to the point where I can improvise a plausible blues solo. I don’t know how I stuck with it for so long, but the feeling I get when I can just grab my guitar and play along is so satisfying that I’ve never doubted that the effort was worth it.
So start now, working on the fundamentals, and practicing various techniques that you need for specific textures like hair, or drapery, or eyes, or trees, or clouds, or shadows, etc. When you can do all those things well, you can bang our something credible when the inspiration hits you.
You don’t get creative skills without many hours of practice. You should.
But what if the ideas that most excite me are the ones I wanna do justice which means I have to delay until I get the actual skill to make them. Meanwhile making whatever just to practice doesn’t excite me enough to motivate me to even start.
Art is about the process, not the end result. Any artist you see doing public posts with detailed art has many thousands of drawings that are rough. And that’s okay, the internet has everyone showing off just their best stuff, but that’s just the best stuff. If you want to make art that fulfills what you’re looking foe, just keep doing art. You’ll get there.
The greatest artists in history do not make art as perfect as they have in their head.
Yes, absolutely.
I wasn’t a good artist, i did lot bad sketch and slowly improved my skills. Right now, my sketchs are average, i won’t reach the few Art masters i admire, but i enjoy my own creation. I enjoy the path i chose.
It don’t matter, just enjoy your adventure and try. :3
At first, it will be very very bad but slowly you will progress as long you draw, paint regulary and observe your environment.
Maybe it will become your favorite hobbie, maybe you will just draw few time. You will never know until you try. And that’s a cool experience. Have fun :)
Yes, make art
Starting from the end, I’d say it’s better to fail while trying than to regret not doing it.
About perfection, it’s through the opposite, the imperfection and the failed attempts, that the person finds room to improve. Pretty much every artist whom you may be following started doing crude drawings. Hell, some still draw stickmen, some even going to insane lengths at that.
About creativity, inspiration is important. If you can’t find any in your daily routine, maybe try doing something different to see if inspiration comes?
And to wrap it up, personally, I think you should make art, yeah.
I have a lot of ideas I’m excited about. And I know I need to try and fail and practice to get better but then it would hurt to not do them justice.
There’s a saying in my language that goes like “perfect is enemy of done”.
As you fear not doing your ideas justice, maybe before trying them, you could participate on Ink52 from !inktober@sh.itjust.works? It’s a gamefied way of making people train drawing, and Ink52 is afaik the loosest of the 3 trends in that line, Drawtober, Inktober and Ink52, meaning pressure is also minimal.
Yes. Do it.
how old are you?
Almost 25
