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Everything I touch turns to crap.
I'm a grade 10 student, and my favourite class is art. Art is the one class I go to whenever I can (except for when I'm sick) and it's the class I try my hardest in. Except, it seems like it's the class I'm doing the worst in. I'm not good in academics, at all, and art is really the thing I want to be, but I just seem to suck at it. Whenever I'm working on a project, I always try to make it better, and I end up screwing it up real bad. It just seems that everything I like to do, or am interested in, I'm horrible in. But the stuff I'm not interested in, I'm mediocre. I just don't know what to do. I just feel like dropped out of high school--it's SO frustrating!
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You sound just like me!! My favorite class is art, too. It's also the class that I try my hardest in. You're probably a perfectionist, like me. We try so hard to make things better they come out worse, right? And just the other day I was telling my boyfriend that I wanted to quit school. Heh, I'm probably not the best person to be giving you advice...
Well, what we have to do is stop!! LET GO!! Lately I've been experimenting with new media, and it sorta works. Try it! Try new things. Even if it comes out like crap, just keep on trying. Eventually you'll have control of that medium and your skills will be off the roof!! And also, gather up some good friends abd you all try together to keep each other up! And try no to worry about perfection! It will bite your ass!!
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I know how you feel. I hate school. art is my favorite class also. I'm not the best artist, but i try. I know how frustrating it is. Im looking forward to next year, so I can leave Highschool and get my GED. Maybe start college early.....cause highschool sucks.
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Seriously... The best artists are NEVER happy with their work. The truly GREAT artists learned when to stop trying to improve the work and call it good.
Let's say you are painting: When you get to a point where you start going "this needs this, and more of that, but not so much of the other." STOP PAINTING! Get a new canvas, and put all the new ideas into the next painting.
Another thing to remember: You haven't done everything yet. Some people go half their life doing things they are mediocre at. One day they find THE thing. It could be programming in PHP (Have you done that yet?) It could be autobody repair and hotrod building. I know someone who waited tables for 40+ years. He picked the places he worked carefully, and gave excellent service. He made more than most 4 year degreed people I know. He LOVED helping people.
There is something out there that turns your crank so to speak, you just haven't found it yet.
With me it was computers... In 1982 it was NOT cool to be the computer geek. Fortunately I am a HUGE computer geek, as in large built, so I survived. ;-) I fell in love with computers, and have been involved ever since.
Art, on the other hand, is subject to the tastes of the viewer. Why do you think your art sucks? Did someone else tell you that? If it is, consider this: Most of your fellow students probably have the I.Q. of a salad fork. What could they POSSIBLY know about art?
For that matter, what do YOU know about art? Have you studied about any of the great masters? I don't mean from your art class books, I mean at the library, on-line etc.
When you find out that all that they went through, and how they died... Well, let's just say it is quite an education. :-)
Of all the artists I have met, would you like to know the happiest kind? People who can airbrush.
No kidding. One guy does custom art on t-shirts and blank license plates at car shows and swapmeets. Sounds shitty? Nope, he gets to complete a work of art in 10 to 30 minutes and gets paid more than a dollar a minute for his time. You try to beat that wage anywhere. ;-)
Now the best part... He always thought his art sucked. One day someone introduced him to an airbrush. He's never looked back.
I hope this encourages you,
DangerNerd
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Just keep on practicing on your art and you'll get better. You might want to start by showing your teacher how much you like his class and he/she might help you out a bit. Besides, your art probably isn't that bad- beauty is in the eye of the beholder, no?
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