Dealing with haters
I have had a really hard go of it lately. I am an artist, and i have been increasingly finding it difficult to do any work, what with my work schedule being what it is, I've been exhausted and undermotivated. I have been trying to do small bits of art, just practicing the fundamentals in order to get better. But it's sort of made me feel like everything i do is basic.
I have also been feeling like no one in my life cares about my art, often lauding other people over me, or talking about artist friends and not mentioning me at all.
anyway, it has all been sort of combining into a perfect storm for me to feel bad about myself and my art, both skill level, likability, etc. It is coupled deeply with my feelings of never being good enough that have compounded extra hard lately.
and then, today, while in this cloud of self-doubt, i got a comment that called a piece that i was actually quite proud of "generic af". I really don't know what to do with disparaging comments.
I am really quite upset about it and I don't know what to do. I can't seem to calm down about it.
@affableStrings4654 awww I'm sorry sweetie 🙁 words can really hurt, I wish people would use them more kindly. If you work as an artist, then people know you have talent ❤ see art is suppose to be fun. But when it becomes a job that it needs to be done at a certain pace, maybe it's not fun right now. Perhaps you should take a self care break, just relax for a week, then see if it's any better ❤❤ good luck ❤
@Tinywhisper11 thank you.
I think i was just having a very difficult week. i do feel a bit better about it now that i've had some time off to relax and some time away from the problem
There will always be people that try to beat us down. I'm an artist as well, or I try to be, its been hard to draw for a long while now for me, I know that it can be so discouraging to have someone look at our art and only have something nasty to say. 9 times out of 10 these are people that haven't drawn a thing in their life and don't have an eye for art. I've had something I was really really proud of be called absolute garbage, it was fanart of a game I like. A few weeks to a month the later, the game devs social media page asked if they could post it on their page. I'm pretty sure I cried. That contrast, and that experience that there are people out there that will enjoy your art, and if they don't like it so much that they feel the need to say something about it, especially on social media, its engagement that will help to reach those other people that will enjoy it.
Community can be so important, there are many artists on twitch and alot of them have really encouraging and loving communities. It may help to look there to help build that community for yourself, they usually have *** channels to share art as well and talk about it.
I don't know why it censored Dis.cord. Are we not supposed to share outside wesite apps or whatever. Anyway it was supposed to say Dis,cord, channels
@SmollOne
Thank you very much for your comment! I've had some time and distance away from the situation, and it does make a lot more sense now. I don't have to be everyone's cup of tea. i just gotta keep doing what I love.
Maybe i could try out twitch in the future. Idk if i need a streaming setup for it? I'll look into that.
