Art Discipline .25

Lost

Art Discipline is my creative journal, for the good and the bad stuff. It just makes sense that I share something from my current situation when I feel it’s important.

Sometimes I share general ideas and concepts from art making, or just projects I have worked on.

By now I thought I would have more stuff figured out art wise and on creating projects.

I’m at the most successful point of my career professionally,

and

I don’t think I have ever been this lost with my direction as an artist.

Made a thing in Blender for this drop :)

I wanted to be a concept artist in games, made it.

Then I wanted to set the art direction for games and different projects. Made it as well (with some caveats I will explain in the future).

But what about my own art? I feel trapped in the way I work and I am unhappy about it for some reason.

That’s why I am not drawing more than what I strictly need to.

Over time I have been trying to check boxes rather than having fun with my own art.

Everything I started had a clear purpose and goal in the big picture of my career. But I forgot to do something just for the sake of doing it and having fun.

I’ve arrived at this conclusion and now I don’t know what to do.

Any direction is a possible path. I don’t take any because that means not taking the others.

That’s so stupid.

I could just not share this and act like a cool artist that got everything figured out. But that’s not the case.

I’m happy with my career in games, made it to places I would never have thought I could work.

But

I feel less of an artist than ever

and

I will openly share here what I try to do.

Stay creative <3

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