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I've never done this before; actually talked about something that troubles me, in here. But I still feel like this is the way to get answers and maybe some help better than by writing into my blog. What I'm wanting to talk about is that right now I have a feeling that I cannot overcome my last work I'm proud of. I keep going back to looking at it and wondering what was the thing that got me into making something so strong. I mean I see mistakes in it, of course, but the feeling is the thing i got captured. To me it doesn't matter if anyone else cares about it, or if they see what I see in it, I still believe that it's better than what I'm capable of. All of that should probably be a good thing, but I want to go on and improve without getting stuck to making different versions of the same picture, what I would feel like doing the most right now. Or is that - recreating one work over and over again - something that I should do?
I had this same problem some years ago, and of course i got past it but the problem is that I cannot remember how. Just making more and more, probably. Or not overthinking like I've done right now. But as I make this a problem to myself it's all the time more and more difficult to get past the picture, and it's at the same time more difficult to start a new piece which wouldn't remind the latter one.
Am I making this too difficult to myself?
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Bartsartny's avatar
Hi Noora, you commented on my work and I saw your journal. Just wanted to let you know we struggle with the same things but what I did was find a subject I was interested in and paint it over and over not to perfect the image but rather to develop a style. I wanted to paint faces but stumbled over getting them perfect so i began doing music icons and found over time what I need to pay a lot of attention to and what I can fly free with when I paint them. You can do the same, whatever it is your stuck on find a common theme and work on it, this way your not doing the same piece over and over. After you finish a bunch of them go back to the first ones and see how your style developed, that's how you become original. Good luck.
Brian