How to stop comparing you art with others?

@RiverKai Kai Lynx
Wed, 22 Apr 2015 05:56:36 +0000

@RiverKai wrote:

I definitely agree that most everyone tends to do this and I think it's completely fine under two conditions:

1. It's only bad when you not only doubt your abilities, but ALSO let it ruin your progress or possibility of improving.

That's where I would say it would be good to start backing up and doing some self-talk that you realize you're putting too much irrational pressure on yourself over someone else who truly has nothing to do with how you create your personal life, unless it's to inspire you.

1. That it remains more of an admirable-jealousy towards the other artist.

It's absolutely okay and human to feel jealousy of course, but artists should be supporting other artists, especially if they impress you enough to make you want to improve your own artwork. I've seen a lot of people try to take it out on the other artist instead of trying to reevaluate why they felt that way and think of what they can do to feel inspired instead of spiteful.

Another important thing that I think kind of relates to artist's block -- that is THE time if any time to push through and not stop drawing! There will likely be many mistakes, but perfection is absolutely not important. The reality is that maybe you can now see how to fix your mistakes in new ways by looking at work other than your own, and therefore be able to improve much faster by pushing through those emotions because it also shows that you aren't giving up on yourself.