That’s funny, because when my 14 year old daughter gets frustrated with her art skills not being up to par with her imagination, I point @euclase ‘s art out to her and tell her this person had the same problem, and got better with practice. I tell her to draw anyway, even if it doesn’t look good, because you can always throw it out if you *really* don’t like it, and then you get to try again, and maybe this time will be the time it looks good to her.
And you know what? That’s what she does. She compares her art to her art, and sees that she’s getting better and looks at other people’s art and sees how far they’ve come over the years and knows she’ll be able to improve that much too.
I have an enormously slow learning curve. I never went to school. I was never art educated. I figured everything out on my own. Art was never an assignment or a job for me, so I never had incentive. I did whatever I wanted. I work at a snail’s pace. I have a full-time job that isn’t art.
So yeah, thirty years? That’s pretty dang good for skills that came entirely by trial and error. I’m proud of that.
But I know (and have tutored) artists who’ve gone from zip to realism in six months. I know artists right now who can show you their art from a year ago, who now HAVE CAREERS, and you won’t believe it’s the same artist.
It’s never too late to start. Fight me.
Top pic is from January this year, bottom pic is from literally yesterday.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
That first anon: “I failed to do something I wanted to do. Guess I’ll blame the nearest available woman.”
