I have an easy example of continuous failure: my artwork to-do list! Like everyone reading this blog post, I'm a full-time student, so I try to be responsible and have school be my first priority. While I am taking 17 credits of marketing, stats, accounting, and entrepreneurship, I still somehow find plenty of time to waste. What I'm saying is I have an awful habit of putting things off, and as a result, I finish much less art than I'd have liked to. It hurts my soul.
I think the most bothersome part about this continuous failure is that I know other college students who are also artists and manage to be much more productive than I am. They make it that much harder for me to tell myself I'm 'too exhausted' from school and extracurriculars to draw, since I know they can pull it off, so why can't I? Honestly, that's great peer pressure.
I've learned to stop being such a perfectionist, which is in part thanks to this class. I think it has helped with its mentality of getting a concept out as soon as you can, versus spending lots of time, effort, and money on a concept that might be outdated or backfire. I believe that's a great mentality to have with art as well!
Oh gosh Haley this is so relatable for me, I'm shook. Especially the part where I should view others' productivity as motivational fuel for myself and being just so exhausted from class. My problem seems to be I devote so much time to art that I get a lot done and school ends up being pushed aside. Then I take this humongous break to catch up with deadlines and cramming that art gets neglected. I feel like instead of dispersing them between one another I end up taking breaks from one to the other. SO hard. Art takes so much time to develop and you just want it to pay off without being allotted the same amount as you used to, I get that.
ReplyDeleteYour failure is extremely relatable and I'm sure many people in this class wrote about similar experiences. It seems like what you learned from all of this is going to be beneficial. I agree with your statement regarding being a perfectionist, and sometimes achieving your goal is good enough, and from there things can change to improve or whatever. I feel like we learned similar things from this class and our failures.
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