Why You Shouldn't Be an Artist

No one said the artist's creative life would be easy.

Host and Creator - Simon Cade

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[m.c.gargamel]

A man who never made mistakes never made anything.

[LiteLove]

Started drawing at the age of 18 and was overwhelmed with regret for not starting at a younger age. Seeing kids much younger than me produce amazing works of art and being really care free with it. I feel like I’ve lost that inner child of mine and am now just an uninspired perfectionist who’s afraid of making mistakes and has no real goals anymore.

[foggyforest]

"it's much easier to leave my ideas in my head where they're safe from my mistakes."

thanks, I'm in tears

[MelanieAnneAhern]

Fear can either debilitate or motivate. I've been working on making it do the latter.

[unpleasantpresence]

I've been wanting to create something for years, ever since I was a little kid. I'm 26 now and I've painted my first painting a week ago. and I bought loads of paint and material to work with. I finally ordered those woodcarving tools I said I'd get, and I got a sketchbook and pencils.

I've pushed through a big wall of insecurities. They're still following me, but now I'm finally moving forward.

Courage to you, fellow creationists.

[secreus]

The biggest dream-killer for me has without a doubt been perfectionism: wanting to complete an artistic image exactly how I've expected it to be in my head. But it's not like I'm paralyzed by being new and bad at something, or amateurish. I'm a songwriter. For the past year, I've been working on an album that attempts to communicate the incomprehensible language of the suicidal mind. It's a sort of narrative concept album about recovering from those thoughts completely alone, with no one to see you fall or rise, and finding your own motivation for existing. And, I do this all the time, I'm 80% finished and yet I just cannot fit in the last few tracks about escaping the mindset. I have no clue what to say, and it's because honestly, I'm not even there yet. And so I've been beating myself up, because the product of all of my creative ability and passion just can't be finished. Sometimes I wonder if I can instead finish the album with the resolution that the speaker actually kills himself, but then I think that that would only defeat me in my actual life. I wanted to end this with a moral or a lesson, but I don't know if I have one I truly believe in. Just don't give up.

[shahilf]

Honestly, I was scared to click on this video. I avoided for days yet it kept popping up in my recommend, so I decided to do it. Face my fears.
And I'm glad, this is beautiful.

[CronicGaming]

There's definitely a lot of fear in chasing a dream, you just kinda gotta go for it cause it's the only thing that feels right.

[Shawncxx]

You have no Idea how much this video means to me. As an artist I’ve been suffering with my insecurities for as along as I remember. I’m always doubting myself. I’m always comparing my art and hating my art. I’ve wasted opportunities and time doubting myself. Telling myself that I’m not good enough that I might as well not create but because of this video I feel the inspiration to create again without doubt, without insecurities. To just create for the sake of seeing what happen like a child and I want to thank you for creating this video.

[SamaDrea]

I was feeling sad as I saw a lot of artists younger than me and better than I was at their age, and I started to question if I'm good enough as an artist, how could I make people have fun with my art, how could I convey a message through my art, and I ended up forgetting to have fun in the process. This video helped me a lot, and appeared in my recommendations when I needed it the most, thank you.
Edit:
Thank you so much for sharing your insecurities, I read all the comments, and I feel better knowing I'm not the only one who feels this way.

[ChispaMotivation]

This is so good! Don't allow your fears to hold you back from your ideas and dreams. Everything is possible if you put the time and effort.

[TeaLurker]

The reason I started making art is that I wanted to turn my creations into reality. The only way I knew how to is by making art, at least one way I see the things that give me happiness turn real. I make art to be happy, not for fame but for myself. The point about art is creativity. There is no failed artwork and there is no perfect art. Art is art and there's most likely no limits to perfecting it.

[invisiblehailey]

This is exactly the way i feel.
I'm so fucking passionate about music but
i don't... do anything.
I love to listen to different genres but i feel like i would never get to be a musician myself
1) i have a fear to be on stage
2) i never finish any of my creations
3) all of the reasons in this video
And then, i tell my friends and family unironically how i'll kill myself if i will not have a artistic job in the future
I am fucked

[sadowskaphoto]

Wow this was so powerful! I think as artists we all struggle with that existential crisis in our head, telling us it's not worth it, it's not interesting enough, that little voice telling us we are never good enough. Thanks for sharing.

[AllEnigmas]

For me art is not just something others will see. Art for me is a pastime and a way to express emotion that I couldn’t describe in words.

[raaaaaaaaaawwwwrrrrr]

Please don't ever stop making things because you're the reason I started making things.

[cale]

As an infamous artist with less than 200 followers on ig, i can relate to this so much. I keep questioning myself if i'm still good enough or i'm just bad at drawing. I tried to put this as a hobby but being an average on everything is suck, whenever i feel that i've improved just for me to find out better artists out there and it brings me back to think that i'm average. Hope yall have a nice day

[illustratin]

I'm 28. Creating art is hard. Getting a career as an artist is harder - still have to achieve that part. There's alot to think of and I think this video says alot. Keep on doing what you love and why you wanted to create art in the first place. Cheers to all you artists. 😊

[aayushsuman]

Art is about you, what the process or the end product makes you feel. What inspires you. It's not about other people, It never was. People will find their own meaning in your art. What matters is if you're doing it for the people? or for yourself. Don't let it be an attempt at wanting to be known. World's filled with such artists and no doubt they do create good art but it never brings them satisfaction. They're just a puppet on a string controlled by their own desires and the masses.
Be yourself in your art.

[AerisNotAerith]

From 0:23 onwards, you literally continued listing my insecurities and thoughts one by one. Ones I didn't even realise I had or could properly articulate. Not a single thing didn't hit home for me. It's always something like this that brings tears to my eyes even though it's stupid to cry about. When I feel like I'm suffering alone in something only to be understood all of a sudden.. by a poem or a song or a story. Or video like this. Thank you for this.