10 ways to become a better artist by snowmarite, journal
10 ways to become a better artist
Dear, deviantart fellow artists
How to become better at art? How to gain necessary skill and how to stay motivated and inspired?
There are no right, or wrong answers to these questions, as we all are different and we have our own creative journeys - but here are some of my thoughts about the topic and I hope that they might be helpful.
1. Make art with your heart
Make the art that you enjoy to create. Make what resonates with you, put your heart in it (not literally) and it will show through your artworks.
2. Be consistent
Commit to yourself. Do something daily, even if it's just a sketch. Perhaps, do a study every morning or make
Beyond the train window,
vague impressions of buildings
fly past,
but they might as well be
mountains in Colorado.
I can see Christmas lights
best when they’re tangled;
they’re like fireflies,
glittering
in all their splendor.
A silhouette
is all I need to know
about a person;
I see no blemishes.
I’ve always wondered
why height, weight,
skin color,
or disfigurement
ever mattered to anyone.
We are
perfect
in our imperfections.
You see,
you may see the forest
for the trees,
but I see it
inches at a time,
and though I sometimes
mourn my loss of sight,
I find the world is
wondrous
the way I see it.
I walk on an endless plane
where ground and sky are one.
People are characterized
by articles of clothing:
floating T-shirts and pairs of shorts
contrasting
with a non-descript, grayscale world.
Color does come to me sometimes,
like smatterings of paint—
a blue sky here, a golden sun there,
a green cloud of foliage—
especially red, like the red-shirted girl
from Schindler’s List.
The eye doctor waves hello,
but I see her white sleeve,
not her tawny hand.
I’ve been known to think a small tree
was a person.
I’ve flinched at unknown shadows,
even my own.
I turn like a sunflower
toward any emissi