What it means to be an artist.
You suffer for your craft,
People think you are a bum and a loser, you work shitty jobs,
You paint portraits of your friends because they pity you so they model for you for free,
Women hate you, and find you weird and disgusting (if you are a women men assume you are a man hating lesbian and they hate you), you always have paint on your hands no matter how many times you wash them.
You spend all your free time drawing and doodling on everything, including important documents, you might not have money for food or rent but you’ll buy new art supplies because those are necessities
While enrolled in your University NONE of your professors like your style and they cannot understand why you are so awful when you were so good in all of your technical classes like anatomy and still life drawing. In fact your professors HATE you when they see your personal style.
You spent your entire childhood drawing and painting and all of your classmates taunted you for being weird because you DIDN’T draw the same silly cartoon characters from TV. because you were trying to figure out how to draw a person at three quarters view when you were seven years old and they were just tracing.
Being an artist means having carpel tunnel because you DON’T use the computer to render everything, you do this shit by hand the old fashioned way (yeah I went there!) and after years of doing this since age 1 until whenever, your thumb just doesn’t work right anymore, and your elbow’s always on fire.
Being an artist means you fucking suffer and maybe someone might think you are good and “discover” you and you’ll hit it big but for the most part, you will always be just scraping by hoping to make a sale or get a commission, while you work one crappy dead end job after another and contemplate ripping all of your hair out, (or chopping off an ear) because you are pretty sure you are going crazy and will die alone.
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why r we both up at 3am <3
ReplyDeleteYou just described my youngest daughter. She does some of the most incredible and creative paintings and gets judged by her teachers based on whether or not they like her work, not whether she has met the criteria for the project. She creates things wayyy outside the box (like Snow White sitting with her apple and the bloody headless limbless torso of the wicked Stepmother laying across her lap) That was extremely well done but not accepted. Being an artist is hard. I got lucky and found my niche so I'm not a starving artist but I do know what it's like to be one as well.
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