Hi guys! It's been a while since the last time I wrote something on my personal blog (Probably years). However, what brings me here is to write about a crucial concern about my professional/artistic life.
Lately I've noticed how many artists upload a lot of drawings, speedpaintings, sketches, linearts, etc. Every single day, even though those pieces of art are awesome, probably they're not working in what they really want to achieve in their artistic path. If that's your case (even mine) probably what is happening is that the first thought that comes to your mind when you think it's time to work in your personal project (your dream project or goal) you say to yourself "Is not time because my art is not good enough".
That way of thinking is killing more artists than the lack of opportunities in this envinroment, I know it because that thought crossed my mind just some hours ago, I'm not talking about months, weeks or days; It just came into my mind lately. And believe me, if that is what you're thinking, you are already losing the battle against destiny.
I always wanted to make a cool fantasy-style comic, but I was pushing myself every single day to create a single illustration with two purposes:
1. Improve my art.
2. Force myself into drawing every single day.
And that was good, but somehow in some point after 50 drawings I thought I lost it. I was deeply lost in improving and improving that probably I lost my focus and the idea of making a comic went into a drawer and the daily challenge became my top priority and that's just really off.
I look at my art from day 1 to day 50 and holy moly, it's a great improvement!! Even I can see that!! But today, February the 21 of 2016 I realized something and it's the following:
"Practice is important, but practice is for making your goals to come true, not just to practice".
"If you want to be someone in life you must have a goal and stick to it, no matter what".
"Take your time, don't rush it, create something you must feel proud of".
From now on I will focus on pursuing my dreams, practive and improvement, will come, just like happened with comic artists I admire so much e. g. Akira Amano, Hiroyuki Asada, Katsura Hoshino, etc.
JUST DO IT!
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| Katsura Hoshino's D.Gray-Man Improvement (Left to right). |
I will stick to what I love, to what I want to make and create it with all my might!! Thank you very much for your understanding and for reading this whole blog, if you're reading until this, you're awesome!!
I hope this is helpful for you or for someone who wants to get back into their trails, please share this article with them, they will give you a big thanks, not all the human beings realize this by themselves.
I'll keep my blog updated with new stuff and advances about my professional projects! Keep in touch!!
Have a good one!
