As a creative I often struggle with motivation. Initially I am really easily motivated but as soon as I make a small error or a failure I struggle to keep up with anything. For instance I was doing #Inktober an instagram drawing challenge and I missed a day. Because I missed a day I missed 10 days. I feel like missing that one day made me fall into this big deep hole where nothing I created ever seems good enough to me so why would I bother. I made this piece last weekend when I was feeling a lack of direction in my work
Maybe it's my quarter life crisis maybe I just need to broaden my horizons and get off instagram I don't know but sometimes I feel no matter how much my work is praised it will never be good enough for my high standards. I spent a lot of time trying to detangle my own identity from my work. I think this piece is really bourne out of realising that they will always somehow be intertwined.
“Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.” - John Berger
Creating work about oneself contains equal parts solitude and narcissism. But for me it was cathartic.
If you want to see more of my work follow mw on instagram here
https://www.instagram.com/culchie_spice/?hl=en
#art #illustration #drawing #animation
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