When you look at other Illustration accounts, do you often feel you are so behind and have so much to learn? Do you know how to stop feeling overwhelmed and take action? Check these 8 points!
1. You can’t get the result you want
We all have been there.
You have an amazing idea for an illustration, you sit to draw and all you see is:
- lack of proportion
- weird colors
- an overall feeling that something is off
You erase a thousand times, start again.
But you still can’t get the result you want.
2. Things work in your mind, but not on paper
When you have an idea, it looks like you can do something great!
You feel confident!
But as soon as you start drawing you can see clearly it doesn’t work.
You close your eyes and try to remember how it worked in your mind.
But things are blurred now.
You can’t connect imagination with reality.
3. Your work is not as good as the other artists
You decide to search for more references.
The work of other artists look so much better than yours.
So. Much. Better.
You can’t even explain why it’s better. You just feel humiliated and feel you want to give up.
4. You just can’t do it, it’s so frustrating
You feel so small and distant from your goal.
It seems easier to just give up of everything.
When there is so much to improve, the whole challenge seems impossible.
5. What you want to do is different from what you can do
You want to do more and better than what you are doing now.
That means:
you can see potential in yourself for growing.
You can see there are lot of possibilities to improve.
You are just not able yet.
6. This lack of satisfaction is actually great!
It’s easy to focus just on the moment and forget the big picture.
Looking at the present, all you can see is that you can’t have the result you want.
Actually what you found was an opportunity to grow and now you can make a choice.
You can choose to improve!
7. Acknowledging your standards are higher than your skills is the first step to success
When you are 100% satisfied with your work, there is no need to improve.
You are comfortable and your work is on a plateau. There is nothing wrong with that!
But if you feel your work is behind, that’s because your mind is ahead!
So congratulations, you are on the way for progress!
8. Choose just one skill to focus at a time
What makes you overwhelmed is the feeling that everything needs improvement.
Focus on one thing.
There are many areas to improve:
- colors
- composition
- linework
- proportion
- texture
- storytelling
Choose just one!
On the next posts I’m going to speak more about how to chose one skill to improve, what to consider and how to measure your progress. Follow me for more tips!
Thank you so much for reading! All photography courtesy of @rf._.studio
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