Art as a Hobby is a Great Option as Well

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[franciscogaray]

Great video Luiz! I studied with you quite a while ago and had some rough patches mentally while trying to make art a career, specially focused on entertainment. It was sucking the enjoyment of making art for me and I insisted on it for years, had jobs and even worked a bit in the industry but just realized it simply wasn't for me. My personality wasn't made for that, no matter how much I insisted, and that coupled with the instability of the current market situation in the recent years led me to pursue and start working in a new career altogether, one which while not directly related to art, is something that I enjoy too. Now, after some months, I'm finally coming back to art but as a hobby and free of the weight of having to make a career from it, and while it is so freeing and I have a much better relationship with the art of making art nowadays, making it for my own sake of enjoyment and not to be constantly competitive in a job market, it can still have somewhat of a weight on oneself if you start looking introspectively into yourself as a "failed artist" or as someone who "quit". While those thoughts aren't genuinely honest and I wouldn't go back to the place I was before, it's something we mature and accept with time, I guess. Great video! I would hope more people would take on this subject, that it's okay sometimes to take art just as a hobby and that doesn't mean you're not dedicated to it or it isn't important to you, but just that you chose to not make your livelihood through it. I found that for myself, I could only achieve the freedom and joy I wanted in the act of making art if it wasn't my main or only source of income and livelyhood, otherwise it would constantly cause anxiety and suck the joy out of it.

[BRASISEX]

Its a pleasure spend time to improve art without weigh of comercy..can open your eyes to real experiency in life in really diferent categories .that bring you to a reflexion transport you to childwood ..rich memories of ..where your percepin start..and how people living routines without enjoy natural beauty!

[Lloerau]

Thank you so much for sharing with us your thoughts on why you make art! Art is a really transformative gift to us so that we can improve as human beings, communion with nature, and appreciate the world around us.

[charlie]

Hi, I was happy to find this video as I am a hobbyist being too old gif a career and just want to continually learn and improve.
I can draw most things and that might be because I was trained as a Draughtsman.
I post regularly on instagram and have for a number of years posting sketches and the odd Procreate piece which I struggle with.
I also have a youtube channel where I post about my British model railway and a variety of other topics including scratch building scale models.
I guess I have a passion and love to speak with people who are real trained artists hoping to get an insight into their minds.
I even visited FZD in Singapore when we stopped there for a couple of days. Feng was in LA at the time. However his staff accommodated my interests and were very helpful in explaining what happened at the school.
Looking forward to exploring your channel.
Regards
Charlie

[corav]

I also tend to pursue art as a kind of a "productive hobbie", I use it as a tool to visualize ideas and show planned projects to others, that's what concept is all about right?, but in a more "self" way, but that doesn't mean to abdicate from attempting to get better everytime, we sometimes enslave ourselves to reach a technical ability that is close to the level of someone who is a professional and makes art for a living, and we do all of this without getting the monetary compensation at the end, but the increased degree of independence you achieve by being able to represent well anything you like is insanely more valuable than any paycheck.
The statement of ONLY pursuing what will make your work hour more plentiful in cash is a lie, I took some real long time to notice this, and just now, months and months later I am learning to enjoy making art again.

I don't have much experience in the field, but it seems that art as a job, (concept art for example), kind of takes out bit by bit the joy of representing your own ideas.
I wasn't directly working with it the moment I thought about this, but I've wasted hundreds of hours trying to achieve something that would make me hate one of the most joyful things I do today, if the path I was forcefully throwing myself to follow was already making me aphatic towards drawing and painting, imagine the experience of needing to do this all day long just in the way other people want, I know that there are other fields where the mere act of doing the essence of the work is entirely joyful, but I don't wanna risk this with drawing nor painting, getting both of these back took a long while.
Even with this whole way of thinking, I am still aiming towards a professional quality on my artwork, due to the more abstract feeling of self realization.
One of my invisible goals is to reach a quality of traditional drawing with pencil and paper close to Hugh Ferriss artwork, do you have any artist as a goal of what you want to achieve in the future?