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7 mistakes emerging artists make (a thread):
1. You make work for the sole purpose of sharing and/or selling. If that's why you're creating, you're not making art. You're making a product.
Make work from the gut — with authenticity, with truth, with honor. The collectors will come (and, more importantly, they'll stay).
Make work from the gut — with authenticity, with truth, with honor. The collectors will come (and, more importantly, they'll stay).
2. You connect your ego to others' work. Take off your comparison pants. They will suffocate you.
On the contrary, beware of assuming your work is better than anyone else's. All-out passion will outperform unrealized potential in the end.
On the contrary, beware of assuming your work is better than anyone else's. All-out passion will outperform unrealized potential in the end.
3. You connect your ego to your OWN work.
Perfectionism is paralyzing, and it's often rooted in insecurity and fear. There's no such thing as perfect anyway.
Keep creating, and whatever you do: Don't get stuck.
Perfectionism is paralyzing, and it's often rooted in insecurity and fear. There's no such thing as perfect anyway.
Keep creating, and whatever you do: Don't get stuck.
4. You assume your work will speak for itself.
Of course, create with excellence. Try your HARDEST. Make work that stands on its own 2 legs.
But don't expect to sell, to garner attention, or gain traction if you don't talk about what you do behind the 4 walls of your studio.
Of course, create with excellence. Try your HARDEST. Make work that stands on its own 2 legs.
But don't expect to sell, to garner attention, or gain traction if you don't talk about what you do behind the 4 walls of your studio.
5. You avoid a healthy challenge.
Focus on your weaknesses. Just like physical exercise, working on those weak points strengthens them AND the whole body.
Draw some hands today, even if they end up looking like some creepy little chicken feet. Then draw some more tomorrow.
Focus on your weaknesses. Just like physical exercise, working on those weak points strengthens them AND the whole body.
Draw some hands today, even if they end up looking like some creepy little chicken feet. Then draw some more tomorrow.
6. You avoid sharing work until it's "good enough." Refer to points 3 and 5.
7. You refuse to share, support, or acquire the work of others.
Someone else's success does not take from your own. Energetically, generosity returns generosity.
To think otherwise means you have a scarcity mindset, which will not return to you the abundance you seek.
Someone else's success does not take from your own. Energetically, generosity returns generosity.
To think otherwise means you have a scarcity mindset, which will not return to you the abundance you seek.
