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Post by Dashe on Apr 20, 2011 17:43:10 GMT -5
I just realized Easter's this weekend. It's got this nasty habit of just sneaking up on me out of nowhere. My mom said she wanted to cut back on everyone's chocolate this year. :-\
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Post by Dr. Jerk on Apr 22, 2011 0:03:32 GMT -5
Just as I predicted, my latest big screw up has gotten me kicked out of a project some people were doing, for good reason.
I'm giving up my game project because of the program's damn limitations with the graphics colors.
I feel like giving up my web comics.
And even though I wasn't saddened by it before and didn't care that I didn't win, I'm now growing sadder that I didn't get into the tribute book.
And to top it off, I am still unemployed. And have nothing planned for my future.
I've got f***ing nothing to live for. I feel like committing suicide.
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Post by Avegodro on Apr 22, 2011 0:09:40 GMT -5
DON'T YOU DARE, take some deep calming breaths alright?
Please don't do anything rash please please please please please do not do anything like that.
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Post by Dr. Jerk on Apr 22, 2011 0:22:10 GMT -5
Why should I be cared for? I'm a small, insignificant person. People will only have a purpose if they make their own path.
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Post by Avegodro on Apr 22, 2011 0:27:35 GMT -5
Because we're friends and I don't want anything bad to happen to any of my friends.
Your not insignificant.
You have already started to make a path in life.
DON'T LET THE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS & EMOTIONS WIN.
FIGHT THEM WITH EVERY FIBER OF YOUR BEING.
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Post by Dr. Jerk on Apr 22, 2011 0:50:58 GMT -5
I don't get what you mean, I don't have a path.
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Post by Avegodro on Apr 22, 2011 0:55:02 GMT -5
You do to have a path, you make games, you have your webcomics and your excellent artworks.
You can do anything you want with your talents ANYTHING.
Just please don't quit, okay?
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Post by Dr. Jerk on Apr 22, 2011 0:59:44 GMT -5
I no longer make games. And my art is subpar.
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Post by Avegodro on Apr 22, 2011 1:06:44 GMT -5
Your a fine artist, your art is not subpar. Please stop beating yourself up over it.
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Post by in·clover on Apr 22, 2011 1:32:37 GMT -5
@dr. Jerk, Seriously? This self deprecation thing is getting very old. Everything you do is followed by rejecting compliments and complaining about how much you suck. It's only attractive or funny if you're doing it jokingly just to show how much you don't care, but all you're doing is advertising what little self worth you have. That's not normal behavior, and I don't think people want to hear it over and over the way you go on about it. Very unbecoming.
I happen to like your art-- up until the point where you start complaining about it. You just need to chill, and stop taking these things so seriously. Be more confident and stop giving a damn how unimportant you are. So you're unemployed and got kicked from a project? I'm unemployed and get rejected from projects I don't really fit into all the time.
Seems to me like it's time you found something else and moved on. You don't have to wallow around in self pity. Christ.
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Post by Dr. Jerk on Apr 22, 2011 2:03:42 GMT -5
Alright, I'll shut up now.
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Post by Dashe on Apr 22, 2011 15:12:49 GMT -5
The trick to being an artist of any kind is to know what feedback to ignore and what feedback to listen to, and be able to just ignore everything else. It's just like performing. You have to develop a really thick skin and learn not to take criticism personally. A genuinely good critique is really hard to come by, but you'll know if you find it because they'll tell you something specific you could work on to improve the piece or performance, even if from a distance it looks perfect. There's really no such thing as perfect in the art world, and once artists are done pouring their hearts into a piece they'd have to detach themselves from it to handle the criticism later. They should teach that at art school, it's usually harder to learn than the actual drawing part. Even if you were able to create a completely photorealistic replication of a morning countryside, you'd still get the odd person who'd say, "That sucks, if I wanted to see a landscape like that one I'd walk outside." All you need to learn to do is know when to step back, say, 'whatever,' and shrug it off entirely, unless they give you a few tips to help you get even better. Then you just shrug off the 'it sucks' part and write down the advice elsewhere in a more positive light so you can apply it.
And believe me, all that is much easier said than done. Like everything, it takes practice. And of course, advice is just that. You could always ignore advice if you don't think it's applicable to what you do, too (which I don't usually recommend unless it's very deconstructive).
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Post by Dr. Jerk on Apr 22, 2011 15:36:29 GMT -5
Since when did I say my art was being criticized? If anything, people hardly ever criticize my art. It is myself who criticizes my own art.
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Post by Dashe on Apr 22, 2011 15:48:49 GMT -5
Not winning an art contest counts as criticism. It tends to feel the same, anyway.
If anything, maybe the old "do it and immediately jump to another project and put it out of your mind" thing Wally Wingert does with his auditions would help more.
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Post by Dr. Jerk on Apr 22, 2011 16:41:25 GMT -5
I wasn't upset at first about not winning it, and even acknowledged that my art sucks with a laugh then.
But then I started to got depressed over other stuff, which gave me a rather bleak view on a lot of things. I've calmed down a little now, and now no longer care about the tribute.
I knew that I wasn't going to win when I entered anyway.
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