Make your art personal

Something I noticed just a few minutes before, while I was outside, is that a lot of people start creating art looking at and getting inspired by the creations of other people who are professionals in the art industry.

It happened to all of us - we go on Twitter, Pinterest or any other social media platform and we see the work of someone who is really good at creating art. We love it so much, that we get inspired to create something ourselves. So, we grab a pen and a piece of paper, or a new software, and we start creating.

And we fail.

Sometimes it's because we don't have enough experience, while other times it's simply because we made a lot of mistakes. However, in a lot of situations, we simply get bored of what we do, and we stop paying attention to details, creating things as fast as we can just to be done with it.

After that, we look at our creation and we realize it's not even close to being as good as what initially inspired us. Maybe we could do something better, but we're simply not in the mood to try again now that we failed.

So, what can you do in order to solve this problem?

Well, many things, but something you can do that will most likely get you in the mood to create and also motivate you to focus a lot more on what you do than before, is to make your art personal, and not try to copy other people.

I agree with the fact that if it's the first time you're creating something, you may need to look at how others do things in order to do something decent yourself. However, that doesn't mean you have to copy exactly what other people do, and it certainly doesn't mean you can't draw something you're actually interested in, even if you fail.

For example, let's say you're really into technology, and you want to draw something that will capture the life of someone interested in working with computers, playing games and so on. Instead of just searching online for a drawing similar to what you have in mind in an attempt to copy it, you could simply think about what you want to create, then search for a bunch of references online, images representing all the things you don't yet know how to draw and start sketching looking at them.

If you want to have a person on a chair, you can search online for images with people sitting on a chair, and try to draw something copying those people. If you want to draw a room, you can search images of rooms online and copy one that you think looks good and add different things in it as you go.

It will take time, and you'll probably fail a lot, but you'll be a lot more focused on what you do and, most importantly, you'll probably have fun, because you're not just copying what another person did, you're doing something you like, something you maybe care about, and that will motivate you to try harder.

So, next time you want to create art but you don't feel like you're truly in the mood or like you don't really want to start drawing something another person made, just try to make your art personal. Draw something you like, try to express a feeling, try to make the viewer understand something with your drawing.

This may motivate you a lot more and it will help you have fun and come up with new ideas more often.