The truth is you only need two things to make it and schooling isn’t one of them. You need to put in the time and it’s needs to be in your genes.
If you aren’t painting 8-12 hours every single day, you’re NGMI. Time spent developing your skill and technique is the only way to put distance between yourself and the already talented. If those 8-12 hours feel like a chore at any given minute, youre NGMI. If it feels like a chore or there’s something else you’d rather be doing, it means you don’t have an intense passion for it and that lack of passion will show in the stuff you produce.
Of course you can practice 24 hours a day but it still doesn’t mean anything if it’s not in your genes. This is the hardest thing for people to accept. For some reason we all understand that to be a pro athlete you need to have been gifted the correct genes from birth. But the creative field people lie to themselves that everyone can make it. It’s not true. Your genes will guide your instincts and direct your creativity to create something unique. Without them, you’ll produce sterile, repetitive works. How do you know if you were born with the right genes though? You know if you can paint 8-12 hours every single day and love every single second of it. Even during the times when you’re frustrated, you wouldn’t rather spend it any other way.
As for schooling, it takes away your time and it can’t give you the genes necessary to make it.
I spent 11 years toiling away in a field I thought was mine until I found art (even though looking back it was standing directly in front me since childhood). But i held myself back because I had convinced myself i found my passion in life and was lying to myself afraid that if I faced these truths I wouldn’t find anything else. What I found was what I was supposed to be doing the entire time. So embrace that fear and be truthful with yourself because at worst you’re giving yourself the opportunity to find real, deep love for something new.
If you aren’t painting 8-12 hours every single day, you’re NGMI. Time spent developing your skill and technique is the only way to put distance between yourself and the already talented. If those 8-12 hours feel like a chore at any given minute, youre NGMI. If it feels like a chore or there’s something else you’d rather be doing, it means you don’t have an intense passion for it and that lack of passion will show in the stuff you produce.
Of course you can practice 24 hours a day but it still doesn’t mean anything if it’s not in your genes. This is the hardest thing for people to accept. For some reason we all understand that to be a pro athlete you need to have been gifted the correct genes from birth. But the creative field people lie to themselves that everyone can make it. It’s not true. Your genes will guide your instincts and direct your creativity to create something unique. Without them, you’ll produce sterile, repetitive works. How do you know if you were born with the right genes though? You know if you can paint 8-12 hours every single day and love every single second of it. Even during the times when you’re frustrated, you wouldn’t rather spend it any other way.
As for schooling, it takes away your time and it can’t give you the genes necessary to make it.
I spent 11 years toiling away in a field I thought was mine until I found art (even though looking back it was standing directly in front me since childhood). But i held myself back because I had convinced myself i found my passion in life and was lying to myself afraid that if I faced these truths I wouldn’t find anything else. What I found was what I was supposed to be doing the entire time. So embrace that fear and be truthful with yourself because at worst you’re giving yourself the opportunity to find real, deep love for something new.
