Happy New Year Everyone!!
As cliche as it is, the new year is a time for new beginnings. It’s a time where you can start fresh and start new habits and goals for a better year and a better future for yourself.
That’s the spirt for today’s “No Excuses” post. Normally I sort of yell a you and tell you that your excuses are lame and to suck it up and draw. I wanted to start off the new year a bit softer and kinder…. the yelling will start next week….
But I just wanted to tell you that whatever excuse you have stuck in your head isn’t true. Sometimes we get these absurd notions stuck in our head so hard that it seems like an insurmountable fact. Sometimes a friend tells us we can’t do it. Sometimes our family members think its a waste of time. Sometimes complete strangers shit on our artwork so hard we feel like complete losers. But none of them are right. YOU. CAN. DO. IT.
Some of the people who tell you you can’t do it, or say “I don’t think it’s a very good idea” aren’t even trying to be mean and discouraging. Some of them are are doing it from a place of love. They don’t want to see you struggle, or have a hard life. Some of your friends and family just want you to live a very comfortable life, and don’t want to see you a poor starving artist. But if it’s something you really want to do, you have to embrace the hardships that come with it. AND IT WILL BE HARD. But if you don’t give up, and don’t give in, you’ll pull through. YOU. CAN. DO. IT.
Then sometimes you’ll be so hard on yourself you don’t even want to continue. You’ll compare yourselves to other amazing artists and writers who have been doing this for decades, and you’ll feel like crap. You’ll wonder what’s the point. It’s okay, all those artists you admire drew like you at one point. Looking at their art is like looking at your art in the future, if you don’t give up. YOU. CAN. DO. IT.
Sometimes life will get in the way, and family/financial/medical/work issues will bring your creativity to a crawl. It’s okay, thats what happens in life. It doesn’t mean you give up, it means you work at a slower pace until everything gets sorted out. Sill, YOU. CAN. DO. IT.
If you think you’re not good enough. You can become better.
If you think you can’t come up with good ideas. One will come soon.
If you think you’re not getting anywhere. You are, you just need to give it more time before you notice.
If you’re afraid you will fail… You will. You will fail. But you cannot be afraid of failure. This is not your one an only chance. If you fail, you can try again. Then again. Then again. Then again. THEN AGAIN. THEN AGAIN! THEN AGAIN!! You will fail, however failure only lingers around until you try again. If you never give it another shot, then the failure lingers forever. But if you go again the next day and succeed, that previous failure is irrelevant because you succeeded!
So there are no excuses. YOU. CAN. DO. IT!
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