Blog Post #2

Blog Post #2

Hi guys. So today's post is about a realisation I have realised after some time. For many years, I have been wondering why people who were good at art like to be "humble" and push away praises given to their artworks. I mean not all artists I know is like that, but at the very least, we all have that one friend who waves away your wonderful remarks. It goes something like this:

You: Wow, this is so beautiful! How could anyone possibly do that with just colour pencils?

Artist: Nah, it's nothing. (Do you see that waving in process?)

You: What do you mean it's nothing? It's not nothing. It's, you are just fantastically talented.

Artist: *smiles shyly and walks away*

Have you ever experienced it before? Or see it happening before? 

Well, just this two years, I have been "into" art a lot and I'm quite enjoying the experience of it. So during my free time, I like to draw, paint, sketch. Basically anything to do with art. And in that process, I have learned and understood why artists like to "reject" people's praises. Because I found myself doing the exact same thing: waving.

So the process of my drawing goes like this: first I sketch, then I outline, then I colour and blend. And of course, I give my best in every drawing I do. But sometimes, things dont exactly go your way and oops I drew a line too hard and I cant erase the mark off, whoops I outlined the wrong part, uh oh I coloured this a shade too dark and now I cant blend properly. Mistakes happen and what do you do? You try to cover up your mistake and "recover" your drawing. Make a feature out of that wrong sketch line and outline, colour everything a shade darker. Anything to cover up your mistake and rescue your drawing.

And then you are done. You put it up, take a step back and you a)survey b)admire c)criticise. Most of the time, I do a combination of all three, I survey my drawing then I admire the parts which I'm satisfied with and lastly I criticise it and see how I can improve. And this is also the part where I finalised if I'm truly satistfied with my work-the assessment whether the "mistake" is noticable.

So if the "mistake" is noticable and I can see it, I just instantly get unsatisfied with my work and if I show it to people, I would just be like, "Nah it's not nice. I'm not happy with it." But other people might have overlooked the "mistake" or they just didnt observe enough to notice the mistake. But I on the other hand, knows where I made the mistake and actually severely criticises it.

And this is perhaps one of the reasons why artists like to reject people's praises. I'm not saying all artists do that because of this reason but it's just my experience and why I reject people's praises.

So haha gosh. WIP no longer stands for work in progress but waving in process. #WIP