You're A Better Artist Than You Think

Everyone feels it. @karlkopinski6431 is out there making masterpieces with all ten fingers at the same time! How can a new artist compete with that??

This is a clip from the Draftsmen podcast episode that's exclusive to the Drawing Basics course.

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[winklerdraws]

With time, you begin to let your ego go, and instead of comparing yourself in a negative way, you look at other artist's work and think: 'so it's possible to get at this level'. It becomes a parameter :D

[TheMrheaty]

'Comparison is the thief of joy'

[notnavlookaway]

i felt a little discouraged when I saw Steve Hustons work, but when I got to know that he spent 40yrs mastering that craft whereas I had spent just a few months. It puts things into perspective.

[nidusyaldabaoth]

I’m glad my phone not only spies on me, but also read my mind. This is just what I needed to hear.

[richbailey]

Instagram does not show you the many years the artist spent working to get that good. You are looking at the top of an iceberg of training and experience!

[angelinemarsland]

100% . I followed a ton of artists to be inspired but I find I actually get more overwhelmed and discouraged by being saturated with artists—my age, younger, and older—that seemed to have already accomplished so much more. Better to digest inspiration more slowly to match one’s growth

[williambarrett]

the process is the fun part honestly. If you stop feeling like you NEED to be good. When you've achieved "good" that feeling lasts 10 seconds i swear

[venzarez-ili]

I'm a slow learner and I get anxious when watching speed paint.

Already, I'm moving the goal post, it's like shooting a moving target.

[helenehenderson]

I don’t get discouraged. I get motivated. It depends on which side if the coin you look at. The negative side or positive side.

[meyramerah]

That Bob Ross plushie in the back sparks so much joy

[jeremycu]

"If you are satisfied with your skill level, you have no motivation to improve" Very true words.

Dont see comparison as somthing you should have now, see it as somthing you can reach one day.

Keep it steady, keep it consistent. Many artist who can draw very realistic things did not start that way, but steadily kept rising.

[Skjunk]

This is why instead of comparing yourself to someone you should appreciate their talents and efforts and push yourself to aim higher

[alifishies]

I once had a panic attack the day before the start of an art education program because I thought I had to be Leonardo Davinchi. Like, the website literally only said that you should have an intrest for art and all of the pictures of students works weren't astonishingly good. My brain isn't capable of looking at the bigger picture sometimes. At least I enjoy art and won't quit it because I'm "really bad" at it and totally not because I haven't invested as much time and effort into it 😃

[johngolden]

It's encouraging to keep examples of your own artistic attempts and gauge your progress in terms of improvement in your own work as you combine what you of learned from the artists you imitate plus some original aspects of your own.

[plnene]

This happens to me a lot where I feel discouraged because everywhere in my feed there are my peers and professional artists that are way advanced than me and doing a lot better with their art. Thank you for reminding me again and it’s a hard journey for every artist but motivation, learning and time will payoff!

[PHyN]

Yes, indeed i'am often feel discouraged everytime i see other great art and became hopeless, but everytime i see an art that is good but easy to draw it couraged me again, motivated me make me say "This is piece a cake, i can draw it."

[CoolFishFunk]

I feel like it would be really good for popular artists to show failed WIPS, art they dont like, etc, once in a while. I feel like it could motivate ppl and show that even their idols aren’t perfect.

[Kanegane]

YES, THIS! I always have my mindset as “there’s no such things as talents, only how long people learn”, i personally really enjoyed my art improvement even though it’s slow. Don’t get discouraged if there’s someone better than you, get fired up and start to practice more! Don’t compare your arts with other people’s arts, compare it to your old arts and see how far you’ve come and give yourself a good job for working really hard to get to this day.

[Scarshadow]

What's great about this is that it can apply to so many other aspects of life, including art/media and sketching! There's a lot of messed-up areas of our lives where people can do unfair comparisons between themselves and others (how the beauty industry markets it's products being an infamous example), and it's why it's important to be mindful when we start unfairly comparing ourselves to others.
Regardless of what people think of Theodore Roosevelt, his quote "Comparison is the thief of joy" fits perfectly.

[FagunMukherjee]

The video : 🙂
The doll in the pelvic area in the background : 💀