Hell! even opening the project again feels so daunting to me.. forget about giving 1-2 hrs everyday... The self doubt is paralysing sometimes, I have started to understand that there is another bigger factor in play called BURNOUT, that I never seemed to notice or give attention to before. Realising that has helped me a bit to not go too hard on myself and learn that break is very important.
Your story is really inspiring brother, thanks so much for your insight. I've heard that same saying of no other distraction before the said work is done, its time I start doing that too
This gives me hope, theres literally a very similar battle I'm going through, an artwork that I too started which ended up becoming a goal to defeat the quitting mindset, which was on pause until now, im motivated to push through and finish it
Thats a very interesting problem that I never thought about ... Please let us know here if you manage to find a solution to that. Me personally I think I would devise an optimized workflow, if the lack of time is the problem here.
WOW I never thought my story would inspire anyone! im glad it inspired at least 1 person!
and Yeah... Burnout is intense, I myself reached there hoping to reach a level in my art skills to try to make a living with it.
Even though I made this piece (which i am super proud of) the sad truth of it is, that 3 months is a very long time.
This discouraged me to continue investing more time to practice getting paintings to extreme render quality.
I stopped painting for 5 months after this piece.
Now finally, i just enjoy doing Figure Drawings. 10-20 min a day.
to practice anatomy.
I'm a massage therapist (12 years exp) and personal trainer (this year) , so doing figure drawings helps me with mastering my anatomy and helping my clients.
I wanted to be an Artist because it was supposed to fun and not feel like work. But its feeling like more work. so whats the point?
and if money is the reason. then there are other ways of making money, why am I breaking myself in half to try to make it as an artist?
the thing that helped me was looking at a theory called intrinsic motivation vs extrinsic motivation.
I kind of stopped focusing on trying to "make it" as an artist. (extrinsic motivation) which was putting too much pressure on me to be great.. (which i believe led to Burnout)
Having another direction in my life as a massage therapist and Personal trainer helped with this.
So I started to find the joy of painting and having fun while painting, discovering new techniques, trying out different styles, (intrinsic motivation)
I really discovered that there might be some Styles that I will find super cool and inspiring, but I hate drawing it myself.
and some others styles that I really enjoy drawing.
So there is a process of letting go (a painful process) which requires a time of grief. which is kind of funny to say. but it's necessary.
than comes a time of acceptance and discovery. A book that helped me, which is kind of a cliche but wtv. (ekhart tolle the power of now.)
So now it's becoming a journey of self discovery.
BUT I still would like to create My own Art one day with Fun, Passion and Joy, and make good money with it too xD
do you have any ideas in mind how you would want to go about doing so? Selling merchandise/Books/Posters etc?
