Yeah, cause I always imagine how I want my pictures to look, then I draw it, figuring it's easy, then it's not easy.... Not easy at all...
But I did paint one picture that was pretty good! So there's that going for me
When I took karate, in preparation for competitions, they told us, "If you mess up, pretend you didn't. The judges aren't from this studio, they don't know what the forms are supposed to look like."
In sixth grade, when I was in my school's musical, we were told, "Just smile. If you mess up the footwork, no one will notice." And despite fucking up the first number's choreography one night, I'm pretty sure no one in the audience noticed.
In seventh grade, I had my first solo in the musical that year. I was petrified, and so a week before we opened, I started purposefully singing my line badly ("Plus I've got perfect pitch") for comedic effect, as my character was probably supposed to sound like a dying cat anyway. The first time I did this, I was congratulated on it three times when I came back down to the dressing rooms.
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Today, in a rehearsal, my shoe fell off. Not even kidding. My shoe fell off and it was in a place no one stood for the rest of the number. I had to walk around the main character in a circle with only one shoe on. No one noticed until there was a break to fix something, and the girl closest to my shoe just said, "Hey, there's a shoe over here...?"
If a director, who is literally onstage the entire time didn't notice one chorus member was walking around without a shoe on, I don't think the audience would've.
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The "Smile and fake it" attitude works in theatre and other performing arts, so it sure as hell should work in drawing and painting and even writing types of arts.
I've been in stage crew for the past 3 years at my school, and I quickly learned that in as long as you look in place if you're caught when the lights come up, the audience will just think you're either some kind of furniture salesperson, or a very poorly dressed extra.
That does help a lot. I always, and I mean always criticize my art because I judge it by my standards (which are so high a spaceship can't get to the top)
it usually, me being impressed with my own art, i satisfied and think that my art is perfect, but when i show it to other people, people don't think so, many are not impressed by my art instead of myself. but that's okay.
The same can hold true with writing. You have an emotion, a concept in your head and you can never really be sure if you have conveyed it well until someone else reads it.
This is the same for our bodies. We aren't with our own bodies because we have an idea of perfection in our heads and we can't recreate that image. But when other people see us
This is the same for our bodies. We have this idea of perfection in our heads and we can't recreate that so we beat ourselves up about it. But other people love us for us because they don't see the image of perfection they see you. And maybe you are someone's idea of perfection
But I did paint one picture that was pretty good! So there's that going for me
In sixth grade, when I was in my school's musical, we were told, "Just smile. If you mess up the footwork, no one will notice." And despite fucking up the first number's choreography one night, I'm pretty sure no one in the audience noticed.
In seventh grade, I had my first solo in the musical that year. I was petrified, and so a week before we opened, I started purposefully singing my line badly ("Plus I've got perfect pitch") for comedic effect, as my character was probably supposed to sound like a dying cat anyway. The first time I did this, I was congratulated on it three times when I came back down to the dressing rooms.
(cont.)
If a director, who is literally onstage the entire time didn't notice one chorus member was walking around without a shoe on, I don't think the audience would've.
.
The "Smile and fake it" attitude works in theatre and other performing arts, so it sure as hell should work in drawing and painting and even writing types of arts.