Comments on: Tips for the Self-Taught Artist: Honing Your Skills https://artanddesigninspiration.com/tips-for-the-self-taught-artist-honing-your-skills/ Inspiration for Creatives - Creativity is Contagious - Pass It On Wed, 17 May 2023 12:14:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: kaarigar foundation https://artanddesigninspiration.com/tips-for-the-self-taught-artist-honing-your-skills/#comment-21275 Wed, 17 May 2023 12:14:25 +0000 https://artanddesigninspiration.com/?p=1104#comment-21275 Kaarigari Foundation is an best artist community and a haven for those passionate about Architecture, Art, and Architecture for artists and architects alike! As a non-profit organization, our driving force is to provide every artist with a platform to showcase their work. In India, a land brimming with diverse artists and art forms, countless artworks go unnoticed and talent often goes unrecognized. Our mission is to change that.

]]> By: glen wolfe https://artanddesigninspiration.com/tips-for-the-self-taught-artist-honing-your-skills/#comment-14986 Fri, 04 May 2018 05:53:49 +0000 https://artanddesigninspiration.com/?p=1104#comment-14986 Here is what i think the deal is, forget about selling your art. A red dot in the middle of a blank canvas idea is taken, no big deal. Assure yourself that it was another time, place, and name that somehow earned the respect to that painting. You are responsible for creating if you are an artist, it is up to the market to decide if they like YOU. They might also like your paintings but do YOU come through in your paintings. No one will look at your paintings if the person behind it does not show. Have you been painting a long time? That does not always mean you get to reap the rewards, other than you learned, which is massively important, but practically no artist does what they do to :sell: anyway. Artist do what they do because they are obsessed, beyond any reasonable control, with an idea that either haunts them, amuses them, drives them crazy,…any sort of emotion that moves them to express, is where art begins. As you find your way to this place you become more and more uninhibited, and you become good. Think of it like sex. You are supposed to be a vulnerable mess before anyone notices that there is something real happening before their eyes.

]]> By: C. S. P. https://artanddesigninspiration.com/tips-for-the-self-taught-artist-honing-your-skills/#comment-8494 Wed, 04 Jan 2017 08:03:54 +0000 https://artanddesigninspiration.com/?p=1104#comment-8494 Thank you for this article. I drew as a teen and loved it but was convinced I wasn’t talented enough to be a “real artist,” so I stopped. 23 years later, I felt compelled to paint. I am teaching myself through practice, trial and error, and sometimes worry I can’t “really” pursue painting without formal training. I think I have a little natural ability, but generally I’m so clearly an amateur. Your blog comforted and inspired me. Thank you.

]]> By: Beret https://artanddesigninspiration.com/tips-for-the-self-taught-artist-honing-your-skills/#comment-5172 Sat, 04 Jun 2016 07:22:15 +0000 https://artanddesigninspiration.com/?p=1104#comment-5172 Walk before run..but i want to run so badly.

]]> By: C.Rosepapa https://artanddesigninspiration.com/tips-for-the-self-taught-artist-honing-your-skills/#comment-3289 Tue, 03 Nov 2015 18:54:03 +0000 https://artanddesigninspiration.com/?p=1104#comment-3289 In reply to Imran.

Thanks for the comment! I agree comparison is good and comparing work. I was coming from the point of view (my experience), that I would get discouraged when I would compare my work to some because their work is so good and I felt I could never be that good. As artists it easy to get discouraged when we do this. I see art as self expression now and accept my work for what it is. My expression. This book has helped me shed more light on the topic. Damn Good Advice (for people with talent) by George Lois.

]]> By: Imran https://artanddesigninspiration.com/tips-for-the-self-taught-artist-honing-your-skills/#comment-3285 Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:50:33 +0000 https://artanddesigninspiration.com/?p=1104#comment-3285 hmm excuse me , i always compare my sketches with my friends skethes so i can learn there that what are things missing in my sketches what things i can improve.
and i have made lots of changes in my sketches, what i want to say is comparing is not a bad thing but a healhthy comparision is required…..
THERE IS NO ASHAME IN COPYING GOOD THINGS FROM OHERS

]]> By: Sydney. https://artanddesigninspiration.com/tips-for-the-self-taught-artist-honing-your-skills/#comment-33 Thu, 28 May 2015 16:58:59 +0000 https://artanddesigninspiration.com/?p=1104#comment-33 cool beans! 🙂 thanks alot, I think the hardest part is comparing yourself to others, other than that, thanks for the article!<3 keep writing! :3

]]> By: Self-Taught Artists - The Art of Curtney Jacobs https://artanddesigninspiration.com/tips-for-the-self-taught-artist-honing-your-skills/#comment-32 Fri, 01 May 2015 20:48:11 +0000 https://artanddesigninspiration.com/?p=1104#comment-32 […] wanted to share this  article by Art and Design Inspiration resource with other self-taught artists out there. It is hard being a […]

]]> By: Michelle https://artanddesigninspiration.com/tips-for-the-self-taught-artist-honing-your-skills/#comment-31 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 07:58:54 +0000 https://artanddesigninspiration.com/?p=1104#comment-31 I seem to have the opposite problem when “comparing” my work to others’. I don’t get discouraged and think, “Why can’t I do that.” I look at their work and think, “Mine is as good as that. Why wouldn’t someone want to buy mine too?” Especially if they are very abstract or simple like the paimting of s simple red dot in the middle of a blank canvas selling for thousands. This can make me seem arrogant or not interested in improving, which is not true of me at all. So the part I get what you might call jealous of is more other artists’ fan base ot ability to get their stuff sold.

]]> By: Arlene * https://artanddesigninspiration.com/tips-for-the-self-taught-artist-honing-your-skills/#comment-30 Wed, 28 May 2014 15:04:33 +0000 https://artanddesigninspiration.com/?p=1104#comment-30 Thank you…. these were just the words I needed to hear to keep moving forward in watercolor.

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