#art anxiety

[art-appreciation-dog]

Perfectionists, repeat after me:

I will release myself from expectations.

I will release myself from perfectionism.

I will release my work from my imagination.

I will unbind my wrists from the chains of my own making.

I will let my ideas flow freely, for I must. There is no other way.

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I will release myself from expectations.

I will not let perfectionism kill my creativity.

I will not let anxiety stifle my imagination.

I will stop making new rules for only myself that limit me and hold me back.

My ideas deserve to be set free, and so they shall be.

[blbllblblblll]

i made an art piece and i reeeeaaally wanna post it on here but im nervous cuz its very different from my regular sort of art,, like its fully rendered (to the beat of my ability) and colored.

[daddymortis]

Small art dump 🤙 I despise backgrounds.

[wilowby]

Sometimes I’ll look into how other people practice and create art and I’ll realize that there’s still so much to discover in my own journey. I feel like since the beginning I’ve been trying to live up to expectations. I tell myself things need to be done a certain way otherwise I’m not a real artist.

It’s been hard breaking free from these rules, from thinking that I have to be like my inspirations if I want to be satisfied. For so long I’ve been imagining this linear process, this order of events in which I must learn these fundamentals first before I can draw certain things. That I have to fully understand color theory before I can try to create vibrant works. That unless I know anatomy through and through, nothing I attempt to replicate will be good enough.

This way of thinking has stunted my creative growth. Sure, forcing myself to study and practice has helped my drawings look more “correct”, but when’s the last time I drew something that made me smile, and I said “this is perfect as it is, because I drew what I loved.”

I’ve been feeling really burnt out these past few months. I’ll draw something once in a while, but the energy fades once I reach a point where I tell myself I don’t know enough to continue. That the piece will never fully be done until I’m better.

I don’t expect anyone to read this, I just think it’s nice to let my thoughts wander from my head for once. But if you do and you relate to this post, then know that it is possible to let these feeling of insecurity, inadequacy, and uncertainty go. Because I feel as though I am, or at least, I’m going to try to. I’ll post something in a little bit as proof.

[your-friend-and-angel]

One of these days I’ll be brave enough to make some actual Phantom art again. I’m so extremely critical of my art and I’m terrified of drawing people in general, especially beautiful ones like Erik and Christine.

[merlindoodleshop]

I've been seeing comics about some artists being maybe annoyed/dismayed/just salty about getting 'popular' on socials among other things.

I figured I'd jump on the tread of redoing those just in a more..., constructive way? So I might start up a little tag for any "Art Anxeity" comics I make.

Oh hey there's a tag for that already. Neat.

[blbllblblblll]

me constantly 💀

The anxiety of the internet

[tammykaos]

✨🦄🐬🦖🌊 I JUST WANNA BE PART OF YOUR SYMPHONYYYYYYY✨🦄💖💕🐟🐬

[thisartisfine]

I drew the gang,

[slumdacat]

I’ve been practicing my art for almost a year, and I kinda need to face fact that I need to post something, even if I don’t like the way it looks.

I’m still a beginner, and I still need to go through some fundamentals of art, but with me hesitating and having a thought of perfectionism, it needs to change.

So with this exercise, I’m gonna try drawing with references and post them on tumblr so the earth shattering anxiety I have will probably fade.

It’s gonna make me cringe that I want to bang my head against the desk.

Here goes nothing. T-T

I’m also gonna analyze what is right and what is wrong with my art.

[1alchemistart]

haven't done one of these in a while KSDFJKSD

[mayomkun]

Glasses buddies 😎

[mintsuwu]

Thank you random Twitter user for providing the world with a way to watch the movie online 🙏

[unoriginal-and-dumb]

Look i dunno. SHES ORANGE AND SHE KINDA WEIRD LOOKING!!! I like her.

BUT i just really like her design a lot, kinda wish she was 2d animated though but i say that to everything

[hypnoticmoth]

Do you ever want to badly write a fic but you’re too self conscious about your writing so it stays a forever idea ?? Hahaha…

Anyway, i’ve had thought about Vox’s obsession with Alastor bringing the ruin of the Vees…. Many many ideas, and what happens and …. Augh

[squidflavoredsoup]

got super depressed lol here’s some inside out doodles

i’ll get to those requests right now!!