Fear

Why are we afraid to create art? Do we believe that the product will be inferior to the art envisioned in our minds? I believe people are afraid to create art because art is a reflection of yourself. Art is a one-way personal mirror into your self. Also, I believe people are afraid to create art because of  “the curse of artists”. That is, once you complete something, you improved your skills and expectations as an artist, so you redo the art to make it better, but once you redo the art you continue to improve, so you must redo the art again never being satisfied with the finished result, and so the vicious cycle continues.

However, the “artistic curse” is ridiculous because art is as much a process as it a result. The finished product is finished after you have completed the process.  It is important that you release art after it completed. Once you start afresh, you can create new ideas and entirely different pieces of art.

It is important that you complete each piece and log in hours into the 10,000 hours of practice because the more you do something the better you get thus improving your skills and thought along the way. If you get out of your own head and just put in the time to do artwork, the improvement of your skills will improve with time and quantity of art.  

However, if you are like me and claim to be busy all of the time, take a deep breath and do a little bit of art each day by working it into your daily routine. Whether the art be a drawing, picture or paragraph, a day, it is important that you actually do it because actually completing art is important to achieving your goal of becoming a better artist.