POTATO

squallmaster:

I hate my parents so much. They think drawing is so easy and so dispensible bullshit. Today my dad just crushed one of my drawings and hurt my left hand just because the drawing was too small and i didn’t want to enlarge it because i thought it was just fine the way it was. Then he started yapping…

HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT? DON’T YOU DARE SAY THAT. All my friends who aren’t artists, my parents, the people in my life think drawing is just some useless talent for me as well, something that if oh, they want a picture, they can just ask me to draw something and I will. I’ll never make a living off of it, so it’s all the same!

And yet I draw for them not because I’m their personal drawing machine whenever, but because I feel like it, because I want to draw so-and-so for them, because I want to improve! If I don’t want to draw, I don’t draw! Complaints are petty! An artist is not obligated to draw anyone anything because they’re a friend, because they draw good! SIMPLY PUT, IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING VALUABLE, PEOPLE WILL COME TO SPONGE OFF OF YOU. That doesn’t mean you have to share your talent with every ungrateful person you come across! It doesn’t mean anything, besides the fact that you are very, very special.

Because you’re good at art, because others are jealous, you would give it up? I live and breathe art, I would rather have other people hate me, get into a argument every day rather than give it up! How can they stop me? As long as I have hands and feet, I can draw. As long as I have a voice, I can create stories, music. As long as I have eyes, I have my own camera. As long as I have a mind, I can create a world inside of it! I have other talents, I have things I could do instead of spending hours making art. I could be completely normal, not labeled as a introvert and have half a million friends, and I could also go drown myself in a lake because everyone else told me to. WHO ARE YOU TO DO WHAT EVERYONE ELSE WANTS YOU TO? Rebel, stand up for what you love and pay no attention to the people crying out your defeat! People who believed in themselves have overturned countries, become names that have gone down in history!

No one is encouraging you. So what?! I don’t need others to put my pencil to a piece of paper, to draw what comes to mind! If I’m getting negative feedback, that’s no indication for me to stop, rather, to draw even more, to get to the point of where I can successfully call a picture “perfect” and for others to be able to, too. If people appreciate what you do, that’s good! If they don’t, get better, try harder, exceed their expectations and impress/surpass them with improvement! For your friends, encourage them, grow with them, be rivals every now and then. For the nonbelievers, prove them wrong in the end.

IF IT MEANS ANYTHING TO YOU, I LIGHT UP EVERY TIME I SEE ONE OF YOUR DRAWINGS ON MY DASH, IN MY dA INBOX. I WANT EVERY PIECE OF YOUR SCRAP PAPER, I WANT TO SEE HOW YOU DRAW AND HOW MUCH YOU ACTUALLY DRAW BECAUSE I KNOW I DON’T POST MORE THAN A FRACTION OF MY DRAWINGS ONLINE DUE TO LAZINESS/POINTLESSNESS OF THE DOODLES. I DON’T THINK I’M A BETTER ARTIST THAN YOU, I DON’T THINK I’M A BETTER ARTIST THAN ANYONE I KNOW, ANYONE I DON’T KNOW. EVERYONE’S IMPROVING WITH EVERY PICTURE THEY MAKE, WITH EVERY SUPPORTIVE COMMENT THEY GET FROM SOMEONE ELSE.

ROII, I THINK YOU’VE BEEN TRYING THE HARDEST, HARDER THAN ANYONE I KNOW TO MAKE ART PEOPLE CAN REALLY APPRECIATE WITH THE NEGATIVITY YOU’RE FEELING ALL THE TIME, AND I JUST WANT TO YELL AT YOU TO SNAP OUT OF IT AND SHOW YOU HOW MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY LOVE AND ADMIRE YOU AND YOUR WORK. PLEASE DON’T EVER THINK ABOUT GIVING UP ON ART. ;____;