...by the difference between what I'd like to do as an artist and writer, and what my skills and brain seem to allow me to do.
Still, I'm having a lot of fun this year.
Last week we had three projects due. Do you know how often an art-school project is declared perfectly successful? Never, that's how often. Well, almost never. That's the nature of a beast I'm still trying to understand.
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I believe this is just what my daughter, the cartoonist/illustrator, would say about her years at SVA. No project was every perfectly executed.
But see creative talent measure of perfection is all subjection. What one might see as less than perfect, another would call a masterpiece!
Don't let it get to you. DON'T!
If it makes you to "ah-ha", it was a worthwhile criticism that will make your next piece will be better for it. If not, forget about it.
Good luck with that now. ;-)
Well who decides what perfection is anyway eh? Think about it :-)
It's really not attainable. You'll always have the atomic level to deal with...perhaps an atom of paint is out of place...and you can't see it to fix it. Ahhhhhhh!!!
Realistically, the customer decides what perfection is. It will always be that way if you intend to make a living creating art. So don't let the ol' professors get you down :-)
Well, just to be clear ... Most of the time, the criticism I and other students hear about our projects seem quite reasonable. Much of what happens in art school is training the eye to notice what it didn't notice before. In illustration, that might be the difference between turning out work that looks amateur or that looks professional.
I have gotten way more accustomed to the never-perfect philosophy. Most of my moaning, when I do it, has to do with how far from the bar I am, and the fact that I haven't found a short-cut to improvement.
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