Art advice..2021…it’s been a while

1.?????Don’t surrender in advance nor be obedient in advance, this includes with your art work.

2.?????Maybe not advice…but something to consider- the word “servant”, “serve” (slave or “left overs”-those left over or left alive after a battle and then owned) is the same root word and idea as the word “hero”.??This isn’t saying subservience is heroism, it is saying heroism might need some examination.

3.?????Don’t be too pleased with any new achievement. They don’t carry forward as persistently valuable. Your next achievement should be more difficult, and in the end the last one will not be realized.

4.?????Stop copying people, following brands, and begging for attention.??It will make you stupid.

5.?????Nothing you have heard is true.??You are going to have to go see for yourself.??This involves skin in the game, work and risk. Prepare your body to endure, exert, force, and bend.??Scrutinize and consider. You can’t be an artist if you don’t know the world by acquaintance but instead only through description or by marketing.

6.?????Don’t get too carried away with precision, or what is “accurate” when building experience.??Brains don’t read these things very well. The inaccuracies that build experience are the impactful part.??Follow the rules of inaccurate pattern building that we use as experience and it will take you a long way in building your work.??That said, don’t devalue accuracy and precision, they are very valuable, often in unexpected ways.?

7.??????Take criticism personally.??It is personal.??When you hear “it isn’t personal” it is personal.??The critique, opinions, suggestions, and comments offered about your work come from persons with uncontrolled, even gleeful, biases. Those biases include their consideration of your social worth, position, value and their own vanity and pride. This includes art directors, art supervisors and others.??They are, very often, just as clumsy and random as any person not claiming any expertise in art.???It is personal.??When commentary isn’t personal there are objective, shared, rules, properties, and a consideration of what the artist was attempting.??People like to be pleased by the sense they can shop or order from a menu, and that their displeasure will drive you.??Don’t be fooled into submission.

8.?????Guard your dignity. Also make sure your dignity is based in fair, reasonable, and high standards.

9.?????Up the prices for your work and services:??it is time….probably past time.?