>>96723054>jeeesus christ, that is bad. how do you look at this and think "yeah that's sexy" and post it?hard to overcome bias in favor of your own art.
As a drawfag, I 100% understand this. It happened to me many times that I did a picture, looked at it, thought "I'm the top shit, this looks damn good", posted it, then came back 48 hours later and realized "I should be executed for this atrocity".
I'm not saying that it happens always, in fact, there are many artists who are free from that - mostly through their incredibly low self esteem and constant self-loathing, which have their own problems - but it's a common thing for a creator of something to look at their work and see what they _imagine_ it being, not what it really is.
Additionally, an artist can have a warped frame of reference - they are not just shown the final image, but rather, they have been building it from blank canvas. They have seen a thousand version of this image that were shittier than the current one, and so they subconsciously conclude - "hey, if this picture is better than the version where she had no arms, which was better than the one where she had no legs, which is better than the stickman sketch, then it must be _good_". I often compare it to the same bias people have about their children being the best people in the world.
That's why, when you are still learning to draw, three of the most important things are:
-A trusted test-audience that will tell you "this looks like fucking shit" if it really looks like fucking shit. Only show them "finished" versions, to avoid the same bias as you.
-Patience not to publish anything you "finish" immediately after it's done, so that you avoid embarrassment after realizing your mistakes.
-Willingness to apply corrections to pictures you considered "finished". If you think to yourself "oh, I know my mistakes now, I will not make them in the future", you are lying to yourself. Open up the picture and fix it now.
