>>5229105>>5229105if you want something a bit less esoteric, here's this:
they're better? you can get better too, I'm sure you know this seeing as you're posting here. there are leaps and bounds to be made with your work, and you can make them if you commit and put in the practice.
they're more in touch with general trends? you can be too, they just spend more time swimming in the sea of social media and engaging with what people are consuming, maybe even consuming it themselves. if you're into something fotm you don't even have to think twice about what to make, it becomes very natural. get involved with people and media instead of cutting everything off just to sit in your own bubble, and you'll soon find it's very obvious what the trends are and how to be in touch with them
they're more social? but you don't even have to be social as an artist in this day and age. you posted this here, so you can make a social media post. social anxiety is something many people, artists included, struggle with, but you can get over it, and even if you don't, it's really not the end of the world as an artist - at the end of the day people are here to look at your work, not to make friends with you, although you absolutely can do that through art too and you'll realize that by exposing yourself to it
how do they have so much energy? refer to my previous post, they don't carry the same burdens as you. overthinking and conscious suffering and endless pontification on the roadblocks in your way are enough to stop anyone from making anything. they find ways around them, solve them, or simply sidestep them in the first place by becoming monomaniac about what they do. if you really love art, and you're obsessed with making art, none of that shit is even worth considering for you - you have a clear goal and you're not thinking about anything else. you can even approach this from a practical angle - are these thoughts helpful?
