/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2847525


>Enjoy the learning/creative process, not the result.


This is the part I struggle most with. I have a standard for myself that is too high (Given the amount of work I put in), and I know that. People keep telling me that if I just work at it then after a ~2-3 month period of being shit and hating you will get to a point where you are ok with things.

I have been drawing/painting **Off and on** for years now I still feel bad. I WANT to like the process, I WANT to be an artist, but so far everything I have made makes me feel really bad about myself.

I recently got out of digital and back into pure traditional (water color) and there are new challenges associated with that, but I am willing to try.

Just feels like things are way more of an uphill battle than they should be. If I could get myself to enjoy things more then I feel like I would want to make art more regularly. Currently I am holding myself to an "At least one finished Painting a week" But maybe that isn't enough?

>>2847154
Part two.

Again I really just feel like I am backsliding. I know I am working with a new medium now so there is some of that to be expected, but still. How can anyone look at this and think I am doing anything but getting worse.

I still want to try and get better but its just hard to keep going when I feel so bad about the stuff I am making. In my entire art *career* (if you can call it that) I have never really been happy with the things I make.

I get a sort of 1 day high when i finish something but but later realize how bad it really was and sink down again.