It hurts to be criticized... So why would you show it before finished?
Well, get used to arts, this is why painting s called PAINthing...
Imagine you are renovating an apartment by yourself. You are doing the whoooole work including the design of it: placing tiles on the floor, the walls. Painting the ceiling, placing the forniture, the oven, etc. This is your very first time doing this... it looks kinda good, but you are all the time inside the room, watching your job from close and never taking real perspective from it.
Once you finished, proud of yourself, you invite your friends to see results of your work (and maybe drink some beer). But their answer is far from what you were expecting...
-well... cool mate. But why is it everything so askew?*
*If you don't know what "askew" means, google it, totally worthy.
*And what will you do? You can live in badly finished/designed flat until you get encourage either to move out or to destroy all your work and start all over again. What if someone would actually see your work in progress? What value gives to artist showing the WIP to non-artists?
I am surprised you even ask!
First of all, they are not judging you or your artwork: Sometimes your non-artist friend will see things you never though about just because he/she has a fresh eye from that artwork, and will be able to show you (HOPEFULLY) what is actually failing in it. Doing the problem-recognition much easier than doing it by yourself. Which will also take lots of time because in order to recognize what fails you will need to watch the same thing over and over again with big pauses in between to refresh the eye.
The second thing is that if something is going really wrong, its way easier to fix few tiles and start all over than when you have it already finished. Let's be honest... you will never re-do this messed up drawing because you are too proud and it hurts too much to admit you have failed. Worst of everything is that you must think right now that I am a piece of shit for telling you this. Sorry guys, but I've been there (And still am, DAMN IT!).
Don't be proud and show your work to the people. Let them give you advices. The fact that they don't do arts doesn't mean that they can't tell if there is something wrong in your artwork.
Shut up your ego and keep getting better!
Thanks a lot for your support and I see you in the next one!
(All the images are my own creation and so I own the rights of them)
Special thanks to my girl for the great idea and writing.
I always try to listen to the ideas of my fellow followers to improve my posts and to give something back to the community... therefor: What would you like the next posts to be about? What should I talk about? What kind of painting? Would you like some tutorials about arts, about cooking? Maybe some fresh gaming broadcast? I would love to know!
Bye!
I just saw your content recently @anritco and I loved it, great post!! Nice practical advice that coupled with an artistic maturity in filtering the constructive criticism of a destructive commentary, just make your work better and better!
Indeed buddy! I just came back from your blog, your artworks are pretty dope man! You are doing great job! One of these days drop me a msg in discord, maybe we can do a cool community of artists in here!
Let s stick together ;)
discord art community sounds great!
I like your exposition of idea, reading your post, now interesting me that surrounding people think of it.thank you for a post
nice blog.thanks for sharing.
please procced.
thanks for sharing..
Awesome art skills mate. I would love to get some tutorials to design these kinda art. Thanks and following you to know more about that in future.
I already wrote many, so feel free to check them out =)
Yep. You're right. When you work on something a long time everything becomes a landscape and you don't see the flaws.
I’m actually ambivalent about this advice, @anritco. Because on one hand you can get a good advice, on the other hand (probably because I’m in the art school right now), people tend to not understand what the finished work you are aiming for is, and give their opinion based on that. Too many times somebody would ask why am I still working on this piece of shit, to change their mind later when the work is finished. Or they’d say it’s already perfect the way it is (because they are into sketchy drawings). There is a Limit to the advice others can give you. Usually it’s their own ideas of how things should look like.
Well, let's start saying that if someone calls your piece "a piece of shit" that person should be ignored. It is important as well to apply filters to what other people say about your work.
I am not talking about negative comments, I am talking about "this feels something is wrong here, maybe it could go better if you do this and that". But definitively if someone comes and says "hey this piece of crap of yours is a loss of time" then clearly that person is just trying to play funny by judging you and being a total jerk.
Once again, you gotta filter these critiques and use them in your advantage, if you listen to everything that everybody say and not even translating the message, then you are in trouble.
Well :) that’s exactly what I do, otherwise I wouldn’t keep on working on my dear pieces of shit ;) until they turn into something great.
Hahaha no worries, I consider my shit also a big chunky piece of shit... so at least we can agree on something ;)
Totally resteemed this post !
Thank you for this message of humility :)
Thanks a lot @oreille-pointue! I just saw your blog and your cosplays are quite awesome! Keep doing this great =)
Your works are interesting.. good luck 👍
Another good reason for posting WIPs is that sometimes I will get excellent ideas or new directions from a crit...
Thanks for the reminder! I am glad I'm not the only one that also thinks sharing WIP's is a good thing to do. Keep it up!
Yeah man there's a whole lot of truth in that post. I have been there and done that. I still have a hard time letting others look. I find other artist do not bother me as much as freinds and family does.