I can confirm for theatre, visual artist, and makeup. Especially makeup. Not only do we have to deal with your face, we get SOOOOOO much shit the whole time we're doing it. Can't tell you how many times I've had the person I just did makeup on just wipe it off immediately when I finish.
Okay, I fully support art but you can't just go around saying football players don't practice their butts off. My brother is out in the file earlier every Sunday running laps and then doing football drills for hours at a time. I'm a ballerina so I know how many hours we have to train but my brother trains just as long as just as hard.
We're not saying that. But often people look at the arts and say that we are "lazy", or we're taking an easy class or major, not realizing exactly how much time and effort go into it. I've had football players ask about what "Hell Week" in a theater production is like. Their response was "Fuck that. That is insane".
One time during a rep one of the sousaphone players tripped and totally ate it. Everyone kept marching of course but the director was like "omg is the tua ok?!?!?"
As a choir kid, I can confirm that we out up with a lot of bullshit too. We also put out a lot of bullshit. Sometimes it can get difficult because your whole body is your instrument and you have to make sure every part is working the way you want it too. If not, vocal nodes happen and you can't sing well anymore
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And writers, who spend hours staring blankly at a writing document, trying to write the perfect scene; or staying up until 3am because they're putting all their ideas on paper. We also get horrible callouses on our fingers, and will mooost likely get arthritis in the future in our hands.
Yeah and fucking oil paint takes a long goddamn time to dry on its own and that shit doesn't come out of clothes worth a fuck. I can confirm for the artist digital and traditional
Can confirm the artist. I use oil paints and those take forever to dry and I'll honestly work for 10 hours straight sometimes. I completely forget to take care of myself on those days, someone has to remind me to eat or take a break. It's totally worth it though, there's nothing out there that can fill me with the sense of calm and rightness that painting does.
Well sure you could call painting a waste of time but when we look at other humans who spend even more time just sitting on a couch watching tv, then who's really wasting time? At least with painting I'm creating something. It's a healthy, stress relieving hobby.
People seem to think that music kids especially don't work hard. It's not a "real job", but it is insanely challenging, physically and mentally. I have known musicians to not be able to lift heavy things or play sports, or even cook, because their arms and wrists are too damaged to do anything other than play. I have known people who practiced nine hours a day for months to prepare for a two hour performance. I knew a girl who would stay up until two in the morning to practice before going to school at six, while also competing on sports and all AP classes. I knew boys who could do amazing things on the violin because they chose practicing over friends. I almost quit because I couldn't play and was developing scoliosis from my instrument. Music is metal af
My friend is a flute player and she has to wear a brace due to tendinitis from playing flute all the time. Im a trumpet player and often played in pit orchestras for the school. After a 16 hour dress rehersal my lips were actually bleeding.
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Might be hardcore, but everyone wants to be an artist/dancer/singer. Not worth it, become a useful seevice to the world. An emtrepreneur! The world needs more business.
Maybe it's not worth it to you, but to a lot of people it is.
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Look I understand, I am REALLY clinging on to the hopes of being an edm producer. I recently got an opportunity to remix a popular edm group's song. It's sorta a secret project they need to get it approved by their record company first. It gives me hope, but that's my dream, my plan is to start businesses and employ people. Help diminish the poverty line.
I've had people say that because I'm great at math and science I shouldn't want to be an artist for reasons as it wouldn't be challenging or it'd be a waste. They don't understand that art is just as challenging and it is amazing to take a step back and say "I did that" you can't do that with 'normal' everyday careers.
I'm a dancer, theatre kids and musician. It's really frustrating when people brush off my hobbies as easy when I pretty much spend spend my life at eight hour long rehearsals, intesive dance lessons and orchestra and any free time I have is spent practising.
I can confirm this brutality as a strings player, I used to get callouses on the tip of my fingers from playing for hours long rehearsals and would have to rip them the dead skin off at times since it prevented me from playing in tune
You're a bass and that note is too high? Beyonce that shit motherfucker we ain't got time for your puberty