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Taking art a little more seriously
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It's been a while since I've posted a journal entry on deviantART. How's it been, everyone? This place has changed a lot since I last used it.
Normally I've been posting most of my status updates to Twitter, and since I also cross-post to Wysp I'm not entirely sure I should be posting something that can only be found here, but then again I can't possibly expect everything to be universal across all sites, so here we go.
As a lot of you might have noticed, I've started posting little things here and there more often. Truthfully, I've had a very turbulent relationship with visual art for the past several years. Prior to starting UTAU work in 2010 I first and foremost considered myself a writer; I bought a tablet at the time and dabbled in drawing a bit, but I never really managed to start practicing it thoroughly. After starting UTAU work, I turned to drawing for the purpose of perceived necessity whenever I needed to get down something in my head (Hana designs, etc.) or whenever I felt like there was a necessity to (art for friends, art for covers, requests), almost never really doing art for the sake of art. Moving into originals, again at first I did my own art, but once I started getting more active and working with artists I stopped doing it myself and only turned to art for the necessity of communication.
Honestly, I've always found the ability to do visual art to be an enviable trait; it conveys the most amount of information in the shortest amount of time and has a lot of opportunities for expression that other mediums don't have. Due to my own low rate of output and dissatisfaction with the quality of my own work I never really managed to consider myself an artist or really try very seriously, resigned to the idea that "it's not something I'll ever be good at". I wasn't particularly bothered by it, especially as I was able to use music making as an outlet, but definitely rather resigned.
In any case, after talking with some friends who gave me some motivation (thank you, I love you all! ♡), I've decided to start practicing more seriously. I don't know if I'll ever be able to get to the level of satisfaction I have with music, especially since I'm starting quite late compared to other artists who have been drawing since high school or earlier. But I think it'd be nice if sometime I could confidently start contributing art to large things in the same way I present myself as a producer. Expanding into being able to do more things is good!
As a side note, as far as my own music goes, I think I would still like to continue working with other artists. Although I initially started working with others mainly because I was dissatisfied with my own work, ultimately I really value the way other artists have been able to bring out their own style and interpretation of the song and help me present it in a way I wouldn't be able to do alone. That, and I simply enjoy the opportunity to work with as many people as possible. In fact, if there's anything I have as a goal in mind as far as improving my art skills go, it would be getting good enough to be able to do more work with other people.
So unfortunately you'll all have to bear with my messy scribbles as I try to work my way around this thing, but hopefully with practice I'll be able to make some nice things of my own! ╭( ･ㅂ･)و ̑̑
Thank you to everyone who's supported me up until now in regards to all my creative works, and let's look forward to the future!
Normally I've been posting most of my status updates to Twitter, and since I also cross-post to Wysp I'm not entirely sure I should be posting something that can only be found here, but then again I can't possibly expect everything to be universal across all sites, so here we go.
As a lot of you might have noticed, I've started posting little things here and there more often. Truthfully, I've had a very turbulent relationship with visual art for the past several years. Prior to starting UTAU work in 2010 I first and foremost considered myself a writer; I bought a tablet at the time and dabbled in drawing a bit, but I never really managed to start practicing it thoroughly. After starting UTAU work, I turned to drawing for the purpose of perceived necessity whenever I needed to get down something in my head (Hana designs, etc.) or whenever I felt like there was a necessity to (art for friends, art for covers, requests), almost never really doing art for the sake of art. Moving into originals, again at first I did my own art, but once I started getting more active and working with artists I stopped doing it myself and only turned to art for the necessity of communication.
Honestly, I've always found the ability to do visual art to be an enviable trait; it conveys the most amount of information in the shortest amount of time and has a lot of opportunities for expression that other mediums don't have. Due to my own low rate of output and dissatisfaction with the quality of my own work I never really managed to consider myself an artist or really try very seriously, resigned to the idea that "it's not something I'll ever be good at". I wasn't particularly bothered by it, especially as I was able to use music making as an outlet, but definitely rather resigned.
In any case, after talking with some friends who gave me some motivation (thank you, I love you all! ♡), I've decided to start practicing more seriously. I don't know if I'll ever be able to get to the level of satisfaction I have with music, especially since I'm starting quite late compared to other artists who have been drawing since high school or earlier. But I think it'd be nice if sometime I could confidently start contributing art to large things in the same way I present myself as a producer. Expanding into being able to do more things is good!
As a side note, as far as my own music goes, I think I would still like to continue working with other artists. Although I initially started working with others mainly because I was dissatisfied with my own work, ultimately I really value the way other artists have been able to bring out their own style and interpretation of the song and help me present it in a way I wouldn't be able to do alone. That, and I simply enjoy the opportunity to work with as many people as possible. In fact, if there's anything I have as a goal in mind as far as improving my art skills go, it would be getting good enough to be able to do more work with other people.
So unfortunately you'll all have to bear with my messy scribbles as I try to work my way around this thing, but hopefully with practice I'll be able to make some nice things of my own! ╭( ･ㅂ･)و ̑̑
Thank you to everyone who's supported me up until now in regards to all my creative works, and let's look forward to the future!
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