Comments on: The Inner Artistic Struggle We All Fight

By: Peter Goss

Peter Goss — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 03:22:00 +0000

Hi
I treat painting and drawing as a journey, and ease into the journey slowly building confidence as I go, when I come to an area that becomes a struggle, I move away from it for a while and work on another part of the painting. In that time away I have built up more confidence , and the painting / drawing is looking more complete, so I can now re-visit the area i was having difficulty with. I can now be more objective and ask myself what don’t I like about it, and then work through resolving the problem. I have found that when you do come up against a area that is difficult and you keep trying to resolve the problem, the worse it seems to get, so time out away from the problem works for me. One other thing, I use photographs for the basis of my drawings /paintings as I am sure other artists do. Please don’t fall into the trap that your painting or drawing has to be the same! The photograph is a guide, and you shouldn’t be trying to reproduce it exactly, its your interpretation of the scene that is important.

By: Sonya Turner

Sonya Turner — Mon, 04 May 2015 00:11:00 +0000

I like the Zen Buddhisms attitude of a ‘Beginners Mind’. It doesn’t matter if you are a beginner or a professional, we all have things to learn and improve on. There is no ending to learning art skills.

By: Nick Paulsen

Nick Paulsen — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:22:00 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with the topic. Every drawing, I always see where I can improve, I am my worst critic. When I watch your videos, or other great artists videos I just wonder how they make it look so easy, but then remind myself they everyone has to start somewhere and everyone has doubts about their work. Reading motivating articles like this are so inspiring and help me keep going! Thanks!
-Nick

By: Mrs Doodler

Mrs Doodler — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:58:00 +0000

Hi Matt as a learner studying your drawing course at the moment I do struggle so this is very interesting to know that it will happen.
I am currently drawing a portrait for my best friend of her 2 collie dogs that came about when I did a practice sketch of one of her dogs.She liked it and asked me if I could do one of both her dogs.

I said no problem but she knows I am a doing your drawing course but I reminded her that I am still not as good as where I want to be and she still wanted me to do it.

At the moment I have done one dog and I started on the other dog and I am on that one at present but I ended up having a break because yes I was having struggles just with detail of fur on second dog but I will go back and do it I just needed to take a step back do a few more of my lessons.

So yes it was good to read this and you make so very valid points.

Cheers Matt I will embrace the ‘struggle’ 😉