Everyone Else Can See How Lovely It Is So Don't Write It Off - Blog Posts

actually this reminded me of art blindness (not sure if it already has a term, but this is how I’ve thought of it as). It’s the idea that you’ll never quite know what your art looks like, how others see it, because you’ve seen so much of it and were there for the entire process so your brain has become familiar with it. Many artists won’t ever fully grasp how amazing their work looks to everyone else. It’s not always about perfectionism, it just comes from being unable to see it from an outside perspective like everyone else can. Not a bad thing, just a reminder not to be hard on yourself. You’re just used to it so you can’t see how amazing it is!!

It’s the same thing that happens when you grow up in a town with extremely beautiful flowers. Tourists would come from all over to see them! And you’d be confused about what the big deal is, since you’d known them so long that they’ve become familiar. You’d still appreciate them and you’d also have moments where that familiarity drops a little and you’ll see the awe-inspiring beauty everyone else sees, but it won’t be the same as it would be from an outside view. That’s also why artists are more easily able to judge their older art (for looking either better or worse than they recall) because it’s been put aside for enough time that the familiarity has faded enough for them to see it objectively.

A banner I made bc I’m working on opening commissions (through vgen!!) and it’s strange to see my art next to each other like this for some reason