{"id":13137,"date":"2013-11-29T02:51:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T02:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/11\/29\/hey-man-i-need-advice-so-i-draw-but-ever-since-i\/"},"modified":"2013-11-29T02:51:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T02:51:01","slug":"hey-man-i-need-advice-so-i-draw-but-ever-since-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/11\/29\/hey-man-i-need-advice-so-i-draw-but-ever-since-i\/","title":{"rendered":"hey man, i need advice. so i draw but ever since i was little kid there has always been a someone that was better than me. like they would prodigy level of drawing. my stuff has always looked some stupid doodle and just gets me so down and angry and i feel like i’ll reach that level. i’ve given up so many times in the past. i just wish i had that drive but i don’t. drawing feels like a chore. i want to do other creative stuff. i feel drawing is holding me back sometimes. i don’t know. help?"},"content":{"rendered":"

royalboiler<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I know the feeling. Growing up I always had people around me who I thought were doing much better work than I was capable of\u2014 my friends and my older brother. I don\u2019t think I really liked most of what I drew until I was about 30. and by then I was onto the idea that it didn\u2019t really matter.I\u2019d figured out my own lane\u2014 I feel like the drawing has to be just something you do for you. It\u2019s awesome to feel like you\u2019re good at something but that\u2019s all on the back end, it\u2019s not why you should do it. Things get all messed up with the internet\u2019s immediate gratification. When I was a kid I couldn\u2019t show more than a couple people anything I did even if I wanted to.\u00a0<\/p>\n

and It\u2019s totally ok to not draw and go after some other means of expression, everything is going to be hard\u2014I think that ads some value to it but it doesn\u2019t have to be a painful struggle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I always say that my job isn\u2019t really about drawing and writing as much as it\u2019s about staying excited about drawing and writing. That\u2019s the hard work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I remember years ago, I had a job drawing porn comics and I had to get pages in to pay my rent. There\u2019s that\u00a0Tenacious D song<\/a> that has the line \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if it is good,\u00a0<\/span>It only matters if it rocks.\u201d and as dumb as that is \u2014it was like my mantra to enjoy the work and get over myself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I dunno if that helps, it\u2019s a struggle. Sometimes all I can do is rewatch the stuff that clicked with me most and spend all day looking over and redrawing panels from comics that got me excited about comics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

royalboiler: I know the feeling. Growing up I always had people around me who I thought were doing much better work than I was capable of\u2014 my friends and my older brother. I don\u2019t think I really liked most of what I drew until I was about 30. and by then I was onto the … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “hey man, i need advice. so i draw but ever since i was little kid there has always been a someone that was better than me. like they would prodigy level of drawing. my stuff has always looked some stupid doodle and just gets me so down and angry and i feel like i’ll reach that level. i’ve given up so many times in the past. i just wish i had that drive but i don’t. drawing feels like a chore. i want to do other creative stuff. i feel drawing is holding me back sometimes. i don’t know. help?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1217],"class_list":["post-13137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-good-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}