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Sep. 4th, 2014
Ugh. Okay.
So I've been doing a lot of sketching, all in the Captain America & Winter Soldier genre. I have a lot of fun with the process and lately I've been berating myself because I go on deviantArt or tumblr and see what's basically NY Metropolitan Museum of Art level fan art and then I look at mine and... yeah. Ugh.
But.
I have also been thinking a lot about the act of creative endeavor and the joy of simply creating, regardless of skill level, and the ugh fades a little. I realize, too, that part of the joy of creating is in sharing whatever it is you've created... whether it's for constructive criticism or just to kick yourself out of being a chicken-hearted ninny.
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So I've been doing a lot of sketching, all in the Captain America & Winter Soldier genre. I have a lot of fun with the process and lately I've been berating myself because I go on deviantArt or tumblr and see what's basically NY Metropolitan Museum of Art level fan art and then I look at mine and... yeah. Ugh.
But.
I have also been thinking a lot about the act of creative endeavor and the joy of simply creating, regardless of skill level, and the ugh fades a little. I realize, too, that part of the joy of creating is in sharing whatever it is you've created... whether it's for constructive criticism or just to kick yourself out of being a chicken-hearted ninny.
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