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genuflectx · 6 hours ago

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Maaan I love the optimistic advice "keep practicing and you'll get better at art" as much as the next artist, but it always rubs me the wrong way when that evolves into "just keep practicing and you WILL 100% succeed and CAN get into the industry."

It changes from good general advice to implying you're just doing something wrong if still haven't "made it" yet. Not in the industry? Well, you just haven't worked hard enough, obviously, as if there aren't plenty of other factors that play into "succeeding” in a highly competitive industry like art.

Don’t let advice that’s supposed to be encouraging turn into something discouraging 😭

#there’s a lot more to worming your way into the art industry than just. studying art real hard and working your bones off #hard work only gets you so far.#a lot of ‘success’ also starts at childhood and that goes for any industry #having supportive family and even better if they’re financially supportive #good early education. good physical and mental health. the ability to focus and do the same task over and over for hours #good social skills- because networking gets you a lot further than pure talent alone.#growing up in a convienaint location to even network at all. or the power to travel to such a location.#natural talent puts you ahead. brains work differently so it’s ignorant to pretend natural talent isn’t a thing #some take to a skill faster than others because their brain comes out more wired for it. so their skills develop easier and faster #music never came to me. I can’t hear the tone of my own voice most of the time. I DID study music and take mystic classes as a teen #it’s insulting to be banged over the head with ‘if you study music you’ll start to get it.’ I’m 28 #I know myself and have tried during an age which music is easier to learn and yet I did not. I don’t have talent for it- my brain doesn’t-#-grasp it. the same with any art. some will struggle more to learn visual art ‘good enough’ for the industry #and implying that they just don’t get it yet becasue they haven’t tried hard enough is insulting #you can always get better. always always!! but sometimes grinding is just… grinding. fruitless and painful #I failed algebra twice as a teen. I couldn’t understand punnet squares till my 20s.#saying work harder and you’ll become a math professor would be insulting. implying I never tried to learn at all.#implying that even tho I took tutoring multiple times that maybe. if I just took one more. poor id suddenly be more able.#people work hard and it just clicks and 10 years later you’re in a great art industry job… you’re not the rule. you’re the exception #ugggh sorry :p just frustrated. sometimes people just don’t realize the kind of luck they’ve had in life and it irritates me

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