#if u hate a take so much....block them....its a very simple solution

[sadboyhrs]

why are there so many haters in the tag

[kenmaiii]

stop being jealous and bitter!

Now i know you cant outright just throw away your jealousy in the art community. You see a really cool popular artist or just someone with absolutely amzing art and you think “wow holy shit their art is so good i wish that was me and that i could do that....” I understand that spite can be a good thing sometimes; it can be what motivates you to improve and do well, especially if the artist is well... not the best person in terms of personality. Great, that’s even more motivation to do well right!? 

But when does all the comparing go too far?

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Now i’ve had people very close to me do this. I’ve been told that im ‘popular’ which im honestly not seriously. They could probably be reading this right now, but this has been bothering me for awhile so i must get this out there. Let’s step into a certain mindset for a moment:-

You hate your artwork. You hate your current skills. Sure there are artists you like. But then there are ‘THOSE’ ones. You have very specific artists you follow just because theyre so good and popular they make you feel bitter and you still check up on them regularly to fuel that bitterness. You know good and well that they make you bitter and angry and peeved but you just keep going back.

Step back for a moment and think.... why on earth am i fucking doing this???? Comparing and feeling bitter about another persons skill or popularity and letting yourself stay sad and bitter isn’t good for ANYTHING, art aside. It’s good to want to feel validated at the work you spent time on but it WILL get tiring if you keep complaining that ‘your art is bad’, ‘your art isnt good’, ‘its shit’ or ‘garbage’. Your brain is just internalizing that and hindering your work and future improvement. It’s most importantly WASTING YOUR own time, YOU the creator. And not to sound snobby here, i really truly dont intend for that, but some of you know good and well that you keep belitting you work because you only just want people to compliment your art when youre only doing the bare minimum to improve! I can only tell you as a friend or an on-looker that i love your art so many times (as much i really do love it and hope for your improvement) if you continuously decide to still turn around and say you hate your work and tell me im wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why reach for compliments then! Why continuously turn them down?

And i’m not saying you cant ever not like your art (cause it happens) or decline a compliment, but to do it every single time....it leaves a bad image for your work. You either start to believe it, or the person complimenting you will get put off from your negativity!  

It makes people feel bad, especially if theyre also artist AND also your friends. You can’t keep saying you prefer their work and still put down your own. It makes your artist friend uncomfortable. They might not know how to respond when you keep doing it. And im sure they wouldnt want you to keep making yourself feel bad. Personally, i wish all my art friends success and improvement, and i want them to love and feel proud of their work more than the times they hate it. We really need to uplift each other as artists.

Thanks.

What you think and say is what you become and if youre always negative and comparing youre gonna tear down both the person you admire and yourself. Ie, if youre constantly thinking ‘ill never be as good as this person’,���no ones ever gonna like my work’, ‘i cant color as well as they do’ or saying that your work is only ever garbage... newsflash asshole! your mind absorbs that negativity and makes you believe it! u fool!!!!! Because brains are stupid and can be your worst enemy at times! 

Sometimes you just need to stOP looking at certain peoples work completely if it gets you that bitter or angry or sad. Unfollow them! Block them! Delete their name from your search history if you have to! Stop hurting yourself and forget about them, it’s like trying to think about an ex thats moved on. Pointless.

Negative emotions such as sadness and anger are our brains direct ways at trying to reach out to ourselves.

You: seeing cool art Your mind: remembering you dont have some of those skills or popularity + comparing = sadness/ anger/ bitterness at not being able to be at that lvl withtin the same timeframe or less

Your brain is trying to tell you to fix this! But you know you might not have the tools to gain that much popularity or become so good at anatomy, coloring , compositions or backgrounds overnight, so the only solution for your brain is to self-sabotage.

It’s just the same as suddenly feeling sad for no reason. It’s your mind trying to work out a problem you never resolved. Maybe your friends haven’t replied in awhile and you feel ignored. Or you subconsciously remembered a bad experience without really realizing. You’ll get sad. Your mind is is saying ‘Hey asshole im sad. I know it might be out of your control but I’ll stay sad about this one thing until you resolve it somehow. ’ (whether it be blindly distracting yourself on purpose or fully wallowing in the feelings)

So we realized youre feeling intensely about this persons work vs your own...then what exactly happened there? The answer is pretty simple. Some kind of information processing happened in your brain. The result of this processing made the your mind conclude that one of your existing problems (art in this case) can never be solved; whether conscious or unconscious, and this explains why your mood might change all of a sudden without any kind of warning signs (in relation to what you saw). 

Inspired VS Jealousy When youre inspired youre working against yourself in a GOOD way. You’re feeling motivated to make something great! Youre feeling motivated to make something better than the last piece!! And honestly thats wonderful!!!  That is a lot nicer than being in art-block, comparison negativity hell.

YOU are the only one responsible for where you are as an artist. That goes towards every artist of every skill level! There’s always someone better than you and there’s always someone worse than you. People get better at art in different intervals depending on how much they take in or put into practicing. Some people just get some concepts and fundamentals a lot easier and quicker than others but that doesn’t mean they naturally had that ability from birth. They put in the work just as you should be doing instead of feeling so intensely negative! But when you’re jealous and negative all the time, that’s when it starts to go downhill. :/

Jealously is a very human emotion at its core. And im not saying its super easy to deal with and just suddenly get over, but there are things you can do to slowly help yourself do it at least a little less.

Here’s the best things you CAN do instead:- - Write down some of the things you find yourself feeling bitter over about, especially when you look at another artists work? Ask yourself why these specific things? If it’s something you yourself can work on in your own pieces then maybe uh do that?  - Find the time to practice your work. - Practice even more. - If it’s your style that you arent happy with think of the artstyles you like and set aside time to mimic the way that artist might draw something (hence adding that to YOUR style). Take a sketchbook page or two and just draw entirely in those styles. - Practice. I can’t stress this enough. I know artists say this a lot and it can kind of just be thrown around carelessly, but if you keep putting this off and saying you don’t want to practice or talking about how time is going by when you should be practicing things.... and STILL refuse to practice then???? I cant help you sorry. Time waits for no one, so sometimes you need to grab time by the horns and kick its ass for awhile. Put in that effort! - Please use references. Even better if you use it nearly EVERYTIME you draw something, especially yknow...if its a pose, body part or background that you know you have no idea how to properly express! Find a stock image or a variety of websites to use! Save poses that you like from online magazines, other artists and photographs you see anywhere online. I like to look at online magazines from other countries or photographers, and there are tons of places like pinterest or instagram and whatnot. - Stop comparing and being bitter. Ii cant say this enough it gets me so ticked off, but my stubborn taurus self refuses to fully go off until it all piles up and this post is the result lol. If you know you can’t let go hating on a certain artist (for no good reason) then dont hate-follow them! Don’t check up on their work constantly! Don’t even talk about them!!!!!!! Try to get them out of your head for goodness sakes. Majority of the time they dont even know who YOU are so why are you worried about what they’re up to. - STOP SHITTING ON YOUR OWN WORK. - STOP IT RIGHT NOW. - AS THE ARTIST SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO FORCE YOURSELF TO SAY ‘’hey, my work isn’t exactly where i want it to be at this point in time and it may never be but i can appreciate that i’ve gotten better at a lot of things and im better than where i was a few years/ a year/ a month ago/ even weeks ago.” - ”I’m proud of this piece and can’t wait to get even better.” - Art is a struggle that takes time, effort and a lot of work. There’s always going to be someone better than you and there’s always going to be someone worse than you. You can only strive to get to the level that would make you happiest, otherwise you will get irritated with it and feel absolutely miserable about everything you produce. - PUT IN THE WORK TO GET YOUR ART OUT THERE. Social media has been both a curse and a blessing to artists all around. It’s made it easier for us to share our work around and opened paths for making money online and at home and connecting with other artists, but competition grows everyday as more people post their work in the same market. (ie another reason why it can be hard to get your commissions out there) Also as artists we want that dopamine rush you get from people liking your stuff, i get that its gucci. -But if you aren’t tagging your works well, posting somewhat consistently, not really bothering to talk to people in certain art communities (even people in your fandom because hey potential friends and even partners on future projects), not adding your works to groups (a big problem i see with people on places like deviantart mostly), joining and sharing them in art group chats/aminos/discords, joining events to get yourself out there (such as zines/big bangs/gift exchanges etc), giving tips and advice or even little helpful tutorials to people then how do you expect to be noticed? How.  If youre not doing at least TWO of these things then hoW can you complain about not getting attention. :(

 Of course you dont have to do ALL of this. Im just saying ...if you arent out there advertising how will more people know about you? This leads to you thinking no one likes your art (skill level excluded because even my cringiest old art would have a few comments or encouragements to see my future improvement, and i still want to hide when people like/comment/reblog said old art to this very day). 

I understand mainly OC artists feel this way that no ones gonna like their characters, or it just doesnt get reblogged enough in general but thats understandable too. No one is ‘selling out’ if they only do fanart. No one is ‘snobby or scared to get themselves out there’ if theyre really enthusiastic about their stories and worlds. Otherwise we wouldnt have fandoms int he first place, theyre all someones work. And hell, good for you if you draw both. It really is just a matter of how you put yourself out there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’ll take some time but there IS always someone out there that likes your stuff. And sometimes you just have to be content with making work for yourself, work that makes you happy. The online art world is tough especially when youre small but once you fall into the depths of bitterness its hard to rewire your mind...

This is how yall should be looking at your/others work majority of the time: You: seeing cool art  Your mind: omg thats beautiful! i wish i could draw and paint like that. i should practice more , try out some poses and anatomy or implement what they do into my work. i wanna make a cool ass piece like this too i feel so pumped to draw and work!! 

And that’s that! Do yourself a favor and be happier you bastards! Its tiring being negative and sad all the time and i want tf out of it. Its so very tiring and annoying to be sad and bitter as shit!!!!! My goD

I can’t really think of anything else to add to this and the text may appear angry sometimes as i was very heated when i wrote this but tried to tone it down a lot hfkds. Im not some ‘art guru goddess with supreme skill uwuw’ but advice is advice! It’s always up to the person listening to take it or not.

I’m gonna end this with one of my favorite art quotes of all time from t h e Arin Hanson himself. Because it really is true. 

Get yourself out there, practice towards a level that makes you content and try to have more fun with loving your work.

It’s taken me a long while to post this, as i’ve been feeling this way for...at least a couple months??? but i finally put it all out there i just needed to do this lol.  Sorry if i mightve repeated info sometimes here and there?

This post is just as much of a call out to my own actions but more so @ those of you that specifically do this! 

[drewgod]

disciplcd (MURDER ME RIGHT NOW)

murder meme || gee guess who hasn’t forgotten about this bad boy (tentatively accepting since i’ve got more than a handful to still answer)

@disciplcd

A dream was a tremendously powerful thing, and Joey was no stranger to them in the least bit – Not when he had catered the studio’s attitude and motto to be that of Dreams Come True. Yes, he had believed deep within the confines of his (arguably non-existent) heart that with enough belief, one’s wildest and far-fetched dreams could come true. It was an admirable feat, an attitude that the public had adored, but little did they know Joey’s true intentions. In this world, his dreams had come first: Who had more important dreams to fulfill than that of his own? Of his company’s? Of what he had planned out in a star-filled bout of making the impossible possible. It was his selfish, ambitious desire to make his cartoons come to life. Each cartoon, he had given that of a staff member – And after countless interns and unimportant employees had become the first tests (They had devolved into growling, animal like ink monsters. Searchers, he had called them. They reminded him much of feral dogs who had been obedient, or perhaps much more fearful, of the man who had brought them to life) and they had simply been not enough.

Joey was always a man who had burned for perfection and nothing less.

So his mind had turned to which prominent toon had been the least important: Bendy had been his star, his face, who Drew had dug his fingers into the most and attached himself to the point of possessiveness. Meanwhile Alice had been very particular with whom he had in mind. His only other immediate option had been Boris: A sheep in wolf’s clothing, one who had fancied himself a tune and a melody so merry that the audience would never forget them. And who a better fit than the studio’s own musical maestro?

Sammy had always been that of a wildcard, at least in Joey’s opinion. A man with talent in his veins and musical notes littered in his soul, yet with such a disposition over time that Joey had fluctuated between feeling annoyance in Lawrence’s presence, or finding humor in it. When his plans had come into a closer vision, when machinery had begun to fill in the ambience of the studio, Sammy complained. Over and over, he would have to hear of the ink this, the machine that, not being able to work on his songs again and again. Whether it had tickled Joey funny that day or had led him to creating band-aid solutions to keep the musician at bay and away from distracting his dreams, Over time he had noticed a change, of course. A growing obsession, festering in his songs, in his work, and soon who he had become. It was quiet at first, until it had roared off of him like the crank of the volume.

Sammy had changed. Although maybe not completely.

Even now, when his head had been bludgeoned, bruised and speckled with blood and leaving a throbbing sensation in his skull, the musical director had complained. Rightfully so, about the pain, about Joey’s knee keeping his body pressed against the floorboards and digging into his spine, slamming his knee down onto his back when he struggled underneath him, but it was a complaint. A cry of pain, of resistance, hate-fueled eyes that had spit venom at him through cracked glasses. If this had been any other day at the studio, Joey would have approached his complaints with a mild sense of joviality, yet still within arms reach of being his superior. This time, not so much.

Joey’s own expression had hardened, nicks and bruises and blood coating it: A struggle had ensued, Sammy not being one to go down without a fight, a fight that had left them reasonably battered and bones cracked or broken. A soft click of his tongue had signaled disappointment, his free hand gripping onto one of the studio’s many fire axes (How many times had he heard the song and dance about his studio being too flammable with everything made of wood?), an idea forming behind his eyes. Sammy would have done well for Boris, yes; But there was one problem.

He was too tall.

“You really could’a made this easier on a fella, Sam.” Friendliness had dripped off of that name, so disgusting. “Y’know, it’s the smart thing to run. But I can’t say it would’ve gotten you anywhere. Don’t want this happening again, do we?” Twisting around, his hands gripped his axe steadily, feeling Sammy protest, fight, spit hellish words at him, thrashing and turning, digging cracked fingers at the CEO, but each attempt was fruitless. Instead, the axe came down like a chopping block, smooth in its motions as it dug past one ankle, slicing it like it was nothing at all. It was an eased slice, far too practiced, far too familiar, far too easy.

Sammy screamed. Joey only could scowl.

“Be quiet.”

Raising the axe once more, it came down upon his other ankle, earning a howl and a scrape of nails against the floorboard, the head of the axe sinking into the wood. Splatters of blood had coated Joey’s forearms and face, watching as the shortened limbs had oozed crimson, a noise emitting from Joey’s throat. Frustration, agitation, call it what one may, but this was sloppy. Tearing the axe free, he rose slowly, watching the other man wither and roll onto his back, evidently running on adrenaline alone and reacting horribly, horrified and in pain and furious–

So Joey only regarded him with a bemused look, a hand reaching into his slacks pockets casually as if this were a conversation, reeling out a cigarette and slipping it between his lips.

“You sure know how to run my patience dry. Figure it’s only fair to have you wait for once, in’nit?” A match struck, bringing it to his cigarette’s end, smoke leaving the corner of his mouth. No, Joey wasn’t going to give him the satisfaction of a quick, easy death. Instead, he tossed the axe aside, far from Sammy’s reach, taking a drag. “Don’t lose your head,” An idea, that was. It would be so simple to just smash the axe into his face and be done with it. “I’ll be right here.”

Watching you bleed out and beg for death.

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