Being an artist (Patreon)

It is mid-week and I had some thoughts on being an artist that I'd like to share.

I'm very self-critical of myself and often I have anxieties of not producing work well enough for posting, or that I might peak and never make artwork as good as I had previous.

Then, I realised today how insidious that mindset is! >:o

I've always been afraid of failure in art, or if you look at it in a different light, failure in anything. This is a hurdle that I've been trying to break recently as it simply is a hinderance to my progression. ,w,

But, failure can be a good thing!

Being open to failure is an opportunity to not only realise our mistakes, but learn something new. Think of it like this: If I deny myself the opportunity to draw sketches in certain angles or in new and different perspectives because of this fear of failure, in the end I come out where I started with no progression.

I think it is part of growing as an artist, or partially being human, that makes us constantly self-doubt ourselves. I say learn to embrace failure in art as a friend and find comfort in the fact that it is part of the process.

If you have any similar thoughts or experiences I'd be keen to hear. c:

Big continued thanks to all you lovely Patreons. Keep it real <3