If you're reading this, welcome to another educational insert by me!
Freckle! If you do not wish to educate yourself then skip this journal
post but I wanted to talk a little bit about personal development in
Art.
If you weren't aware already, literally everyone in the world is online.
This means you can discover the very best current humanity has to offer
in terms of Art and yes, the very worst and I'm not talking about bad
artists but bad people. People who will intentionally make burner
youtube channels, write essays taking apart your passions and spreading
their awful doctrine and all made louder when it becomes trending.
Unfortunately, these are our peers, often upset and dissatisfied with
their own journey and often the same age. I remember E;R several years
ago making videso targetting Steven Universe, a show I very much enjoyed
for its look, tearing it up and another Youtuber who claimed to have
insider information and "a recent animation graduate" say the show
creators basically slept and jacked off in their offices. Is that true? I
don't know but "random girl in an empty room" isn't a great source
regardless and I lost all love of animation afterwards.
I've had my own destructive period of loss, self-doubt and cyncism which
didn't need to happen or maybe it did? I had it figured out but I guess
I just didn't put words into action. But I want you to make life easier
on yourself, keep the number of alias' limited to public and private
(2). I've had more than you'd care to remember, infact its taken me an
ENTIRE MONTH, to close, delete and save my past accounts. Sometimes it
was just namewasting with a blank account or it was art I thought others
would like but in reality, I personally wasn't bothered about.
We all know what we really want in life, make small steps towards it. If
you want to develop a TV show? just start with a doodle here and a
background there BUT THE IMPORTANT PART, you keep going. If you meet
someone nice who legitimately wants to be friends, what a great
opportunity to network and it might not be the person you expect! Just
make good and thought-through decisions. It's so easy for us artists to
intentionally ruin progress either by comparing ourselves to random
people or insanely high expectations and perfectionism. Everyone's
journey is different, starts differently, has more challenges or less
so. You can make tomorrow or better yet now the turning point, ignore
what has happened and work towards what can be.
