#artistproblems

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!!!