• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
    link
    fedilink
    English
    0
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    Blows my mind every time seeing a painting like this that can only be recognized as a painting by zooming in until you can see texture/brush strokes.

    Looks like a damn photograph otherwise.

    • @Psythik@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      0
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      I wish I had even 1% of this talent, but my brain is perpetually starved of dopamine so I never have the drive pursue my hobbies. So I’m forced to get my dopamine from artificial sources. But then that eventually stops working too, which makes things even worse.

      • @SirSamuel@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        02 months ago

        Man I really feel this

        I like this quote from Ira Glass, which sometimes helps:

        Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer

        There’s more, but this is the core bit. It helps me because when I’m spiraling I can at least remember, yeah, my tastes are killer. My tastes kick ass

          • @SirSamuel@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            12 months ago

            {{{{hugggs}}}}

            to accomplish a goal everyone needs two things, the desire, and the circumstances. Desire is internal, but circumstances are usually out of our control. It sounds like your circumstances are challenging. You might not be able to do what you wish you could, but you’re still beautiful. I didn’t know you, but I bet your tastes are killer