My exams have been over now for a week 
(I have been drawing just forgetting to post:P) I’m a bit worried but never mind! 
I must smile! hehe
Ahh and careers choices and subject choices. Sometimes it’s exciting, sometimes it’s scary.
For one thing, I sometimes worry that wanting an art career is not that safe – people keep warning me to have backup plans and I suppose I do have to listen to them. My parents think I could change my mind in a few years about wanting to be an artist… I sometimes think I look like a naive teenager when I stubbornly say that I really really want to do it. haha
According to my parents, doing art, art history and english lit as my a2 subjects is not ok because art and art history are too similar. I have yet to talk to my teacher, but do you think doing these subjects will be a problem for university application or future employment?
Then I wonder – what if I’m not good enough? Or I’m not good enough to draw from imagination .. and not being creative enough. I have a stupid worry that people secretly think that I am a boring robot or something (though that’s not true, of course, about realistic/ representational work, I just feel a bit intimidated by all the creative/crazy work I see at school and at universities) for painting and drawing realistically quite a lot.
I really do think too much…
Well, I suppose it’s not as if I think about all this constantly – just unloading my recurring worries xD sorry about that! Thanks for reading this word vomit.. I think I need some advice so I thought I’d ask a bit about it and this too-long post came out. With too much ‘I’ this and that
oh – This is a charcoal drawing from a stack of chairs that we have been working from this year at school. -^
by the way – has anyone seen Hong Gil Dong kdrama? I want to talk about it with someone
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Personally, I think anyone can make it in an art career (or any career for that matter). It just depends on how much you want it and how much you are willing to work for it. If you think you’re not good enough now, then you just have to isolate the stuff you don’t like about your work and push to make them better
Draw constantly, as much as possibly, do the most productive stuff to benefit yourself, and after a while you won’t have to wonder if you’re ‘good enough’.
there is a lot of hidden information and stuff in those books that you can grab just by reading deeper into them. I didnt know anything at all about anatomy until I started looking through a couple books, lol. Before it was just intuition, so learning what was really underneath everything was tough.
And there’s no such thing as being incapable of drawing creatively from imagination… I mean you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try it, right? Creativity isn’t something that you can really control. Just have an idea behind your illustration and go for it. Creativity and stuff like that will appear on its own.
Oh and to answer your comment on my last post (might as well xD), i’ve learned that if you want to improve on anatomy you really have to go in-depth, but at the same time don’t just copy. I mean- copy, copy to memorize, but make sure you really understand. i have bridgman’s constructive anatomy too, and I think the most helpful thing in there are the sketches of where muscles connect to bones. that has helped me a lot
This is such a long comment….anyway point is – don’t give up! work work work, if you really love art you can be motivated enough to make yourself own at it. (Then you won’t need any silly backup jobs for the future. :] ) goood luck
(i had these worries swirling around my head too, for the longest time!)
Wow, thanks for the long reply!
. Unless I became blind or lost use of my hands… (touch wood)
is a bit..) but I’m thinking that for one thing I need to keep going understanding how -everything- works together, and also, that, like you said, I need to use the books I have more deeply.
Yeah, my anxieties feel really big from time to time and I get overwhelmed, then at other times, and especially when people respond like this, I’m better able to reflect on things since it takes me out of that bad mindset. Don’t worry – whatever happens, I could not give up art
I’ve been making stabs at understanding in that sort of depth the upper part of the body for a while (err that metaphor
It would help if I can stop constantly worrying about what other people would think – then I can draw and paint freely.
Oh gosh I have talked about myself too much ;;;u_u
Anyway, thank you xxxx You helped soothe my mind. =)
Btw are you a university student?