Advice To Young Artists
Try something new, no matter how self-conscious you are.
Accept that you might make horrible, ugly things.
In fact, look forward to it. Cherish your ugly creations. They’re going to help you make better ones.
We live in this fake Facebook world where everything looks perfect, so you expect to be perfect right away.
You won’t be. Even “perfect” people aren’t. Ugh. People who are “naturally” good at things — well, we all kind of hate those people, right?
Just because social media expects you to post a perfect thing every thirty seconds doesn’t mean you need to.
You live in reality, not the Internet. You owe the Internet literally nothing.
In fact, keep a sketchbook that you intentionally NEVER share anything from.
Draw with your left hand. Finger paint. Write a list of curse words and smear over them with charcoal. Draw a self-portrait where you have double-chins. Get a stick from outside, dunk it in paint, and draw with that. Sit on this sketchbook when you have to fart. Whatever.
Let those demons loose. Play with it.
When you’re done, you can throw that sketchbook into a dumpster and walk away.
It’s your choice.
You can’t choose what life has given you, but you can choose what you create.
This is yours alone.