Go outside and look at the leaves. They'll be covered with snow before you know it.
Sometimes I miss being able to look at art and just enjoy it. The "that's so cool" factor is still there, but now it's coupled with a nagging "I'll never be able to do something like that". Creativity is hard to come by, and all the ideas I thought were brilliant have been done to death. Making something "cliche" has become my greatest fear. I get the feeling that my ideas are inadequate now that I'm surrounded by brilliance. Art is no longer far-off and separate; artists are no longer behind the curtain. Everything is right there. These great artists are my classmates, and I feel like I have to keep up with them to be worthy. I've lost a lot of confidence in these past few months, and it's getting harder and harder to realise my own self-worth. This feeling of losing in a competition isn't doing me any good. I wish it was easier to shift my perspective.
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Bleh, I hate things that are competitive and require you to be better than other people in order to feel hal decent. In my mind though, art isn't always about being super creative and coming up with a new idea or a different way to do something. I am perfectly fine being amazed by someone who has recreated something that already exists. (take Robert Bateman for example, nothing new about that but it's still amazing)
I dont know about your classes though, maybe there is a big emphasis on doing things in a new way and it's all fine and dandy for me to sit here and preach when I am not actually in the class.
But yes, I will still be amazed by your artistic abilities even if you were to only ever recreate things that already exist. (in fact I would be most thrilled, particularly if those things were me creatures *grin*)
Hermy
I'd be willing to bet anything that all (or at leat most) of your classmates feel exactly the same way as you. And I think you are marvelous at arting.
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