So as you all know I like…no, LOVE art! But art and being an artist isn’t always
creativity, colors and applause for your magnificent work. It’s more like blood, sweat, tears, mental
trauma, emotional breakdowns and paint stains on your carpet. Here are just a few problems that I myself have
experienced.
Sketchy pencil
sharpeners (no pun intended)
Y’know that one manual pencil sharpener that, instead of
properly sharpening the pencil, it just shreds of a tiny bit of the wood and
causing tons of pencil lead to stick to your hands making them all black and
destroying an otherwise good pencil in the process? I hate those things! And don’t get me started on the ones that
break the lead tip of the pencil off every time!
Pencil smudges
on the paper
Don’t you hate it when after you finish a drawing and
there’s a bunch of smudged pencil lead across the page and all over your
hands? And it takes so dang long for you
to erase it all!
Paint on your
sleeves
It’s so friggin’ annoying when you try so hard to not dip
your sweater sleeves in the paint you’re using!
I cannot tell you how many times I’ve finished a painting thinking that
my clothes were paint free only to find
the huge blue blotch on my sleeve and wrist!
Itchy nose…
while doing pottery.
I haven’t done much pottery in my life as an artist, but the
few times I have I’ve always gotten an unbearable itch on my nose while my
hands were covered in wet, sticky clay.
The critic
There is always that one
person. Who, no matter how well done
your masterpiece is, always has something bad to say about it! No joke, you could show them a Van Gogh
original and they would say something along the lines of, “the brush-stokes are
WAY off,” or, “what the heck? Stars
definitely do not look like that!”.
The narcissist
“can you draw ME?!”.
Note to all humanity; NO ARTIST WANTS
TO DRAW YOU!!! If an artist wants to
draw you they will ask to draw you. That’s basically saying you don’t care about
what the artist wants to draw (or paint, or sculpt, etc..) and only want to see
yourself on paper.
Animeniac
“do you ever draw anime style?”. Basically the same thing as the narcissist.
Artists block
Like writer block, it is when the creator cannot think of anything
to create. A.k.a THE ABSOLUTE WORST
FEELING EVER!!!!
So, there ya have it.
A few artist struggles that I have had to cope with for the 11 years
I’ve been an artist. And if you want to check out some of my art click
HERE! Over and out!
<3 Ary
ps. ASK ME QUESTIONS!!! once I have enough I’ll do a
Q&A!!!
