And I was the first person in the thread to congratulate you! This no longer surprises me. That's the upside of ADD - everything old is new again. (My age - and the volume of information thrown at us on the internet, and that we're expected to know - make things worse but I've always been forgetful. My mom called me "absent-minded professor" when I was five years old!)
But perhaps the lesson there is that all primates enjoy a sense of balance and color?
I remember seeing a video years ago about Ruby, an elephant at the Phoenix zoo who liked to paint - and did some marvelous abstract paintings. As in genuinely good work - color and composition and everything. We had to get the need to create art from somewhere within ourselves, something genetic; and I don't pretend that humans have the patent on everything y'know?
I have though stopped berating myself for not making stuff that looks like others. I realise I have my own voice and I need to listen to it. That's the thing.
YES! This is very wise, and good for you for getting to that point. I do the same thing all the time with my writing - "Oh someone wrote a fantastic story, I can't match that, etc" It becomes an excuse for not trying. So what if it's "not as good"?
I think the thing I like about icons and images is that I don't feel the same thing? I have an "excuse" - I don't have photoshop so there are things I know I cannot do. That frees me to do what I can. I just did a bunch of Faith,Buffy and Who Are You icons today and I'm really pleased with them because I'm expressing my view of the show through them.
And thank you ever so much for all the encouragement, sweetie!
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Date: 2014-02-21 08:56 pm (UTC)And I was the first person in the thread to congratulate you! This no longer surprises me. That's the upside of ADD - everything old is new again. (My age - and the volume of information thrown at us on the internet, and that we're expected to know - make things worse but I've always been forgetful. My mom called me "absent-minded professor" when I was five years old!)
But perhaps the lesson there is that all primates enjoy a sense of balance and color?
I remember seeing a video years ago about Ruby, an elephant at the Phoenix zoo who liked to paint - and did some marvelous abstract paintings. As in genuinely good work - color and composition and everything. We had to get the need to create art from somewhere within ourselves, something genetic; and I don't pretend that humans have the patent on everything y'know?
I have though stopped berating myself for not making stuff that looks like others. I realise I have my own voice and I need to listen to it. That's the thing.
YES! This is very wise, and good for you for getting to that point. I do the same thing all the time with my writing - "Oh someone wrote a fantastic story, I can't match that, etc" It becomes an excuse for not trying. So what if it's "not as good"?
I think the thing I like about icons and images is that I don't feel the same thing? I have an "excuse" - I don't have photoshop so there are things I know I cannot do. That frees me to do what I can. I just did a bunch of Faith,Buffy and Who Are You icons today and I'm really pleased with them because I'm expressing my view of the show through them.
And thank you ever so much for all the encouragement, sweetie!