Avery: For the first time ever, I have been consistent in my creative output as an artist. I’ve been working on a web comic and releasing a single page of it every week on Comic Fury while also in constant development of brand new pages every day.
It’s been slow but consistent, and this consistency has made me feel quite accomplished. Simultaneously I have also been doing weekly YouTube videos with a complimentary blog post (like this one!) with it as well. Consistency will make you good at something. Practice makes perfect as they say, even if nothing can ever truly be perfect. All skills require repetition in order for you to become good at it.
Consistency feels good, feeling like you are building towards something, to be able to show a portfolio of work, to see yourself grow. This can be an amazing feeling. Better yet, consistency will kill any feeling you may have of impostor syndrome. After all, how could you be an impostor if you work consistently at something?
There is a great quote I found from Rick Rubin, artist and author of the book; The Creative Act: A Way of Being, where he says:
“Living life as an artist is a practice.
You are either engaging in the practice
or you’re not.
It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it.
It’s like saying, “I’m not good at being a monk.”
You are either living as a monk or you’re not.
We tend to think of the artist’s work as the output.
The real work of the artist
is a way of being in the world.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
I’ve said this before in previous video/Blogs, and I’ll say it again: Make art, be creative. Let yourself loose. Create what you like and make a lot of it. And most of all, share it.
Some days, all you have to do is put in five minutes into something productive to change your life. Draw, paint, sketch, cartoon, photograph, film, write, sing—being an artist, being a creative, is a part of human nature.
So go out and create.
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