I have made paintings and funny stick figures since I was 3 years old, and in elementary school I made my comic debut! The comic, featuring me and being about my life, now hangs proudly in my fathers tiny lavatory. Since then my tools have evolved from a pencil and a sheet of paper, to a tablet and Photoshop on a Mac. I've made countless posters for various productions, mostly because I was in them, and designed for yearbooks, papers, companies, schools and russ.
What happens when you're an artist though, is that you love what you do. And when you love what you do, people expect you to do it for free. For free? Do you know how much time it takes? Or how much time it has taken me to be able to do what you're asking me to do? People expect me to do things pro bono all the time! It seems that to them it doesn't really count as a job if you enjoy doing it! Remember people, if you're miserable when you work, you are doing it right.
It has mostly been enjoyable of course.
I'll leave you with this video about creativity, as I am about to fall asleep on my computer.
Great video!! Do you think that a true artist is born or can develope enough skill to become one?
ReplyDeleteI think being a true artist definitely takes a lot of hard work! However, I think the key word here is, as mentioned in the video, creativity! Many are born with a certain level of creativity, but I think it is possible to both lose this trait and gain it. There are many professional designers out there who do not identify as artists because they don't actually create anything. They design based on the guidelines they have been given. While this demands a ton of skills, it doesn't necessarily make them artists, just great designers. So I think a true artist is something you can become, either in the womb or when you're thirty, as long as you have an idea and some ambition.
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