Here we go with the last days of 2012. I thank God for His goodness for the whole year :) I've finally decided that I will use this blog for my traditional artworks. I've just finished an artwork (a fan art in traditional form) for a friend. I should feel accomplished somehow, maybe I am but I still have this feeling of being inadequate. I'm really critical with my own work. Maybe because I expose my eyes to seeing the best artworks (on the web) and I compare too much? Sometimes I plan of not looking at my favorite art blog or not opening deviantart so I can focus on my own work. I'll definitely do that. With that, I remember this quote:
“ Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through. ” — Ira GlassI know, i know, we should be patient, right? Anyway this is the painting I've worked on, It's 8x10 inches, watercolor and acrylic on Canson Montval.
