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So basically I am part of a art club at school (despite not actually taking art) cause I like digitally drawing with an app. Anyway it’s kind of the first time I consciously chose to do something art related, as in I wasn’t being forced to take art like in elementary school where it’s mandatory. I really like digital drawing cause I am only good and sketching on physical paper. Anyway they said we were doing a collab with the poetry club so I was like “wow, so cool, i have never done something like this before”. Basically I had to make 4 simplistic drawings, in black and white for the poems of another student who I was assigned to work with. I know I probably met them face to face before schools were closed down, but I don’t really have many good friends, just people i study with and I only recently started talking with other students online for school assignments and stuff. Anyway I read what she described and did my best to draw according the her descriptions and her poems. Anyways , it wasn’t mentioned as part of the assignment but I felt like I should ask her, (since i had the email) if the drawings were okay. I don’t know her that well but she asked me to change somethings which I did. She asked me again, and again and I began to regret sharing them with her. Eventually she said she felt bad for asking me to change a lot of things and then said that they were nice but they weren’t like how she imagined them. That kind of annoyed me but I could tell (even though it was a text message) that she was either feeling bad but really wanted a specific image, or was trying not to say that she didn’t like my drawings. I mean she kept one, and I guess she is probably just one of those people who really likes control. I mean who knows, she probably devoted a lot of time to the poems and had imagined them in a specific way to be put in the poetry book we were making. I can’t really be mad, cause I am like that too. But the thing is the descriptions weren’t too specific but it kind of annoys that she wants to redraw the drawings herself when we were both part of clubs doing collabs. I probably shouldn’t have checked with her, but I didn’t want to draw something and make someone feel bad about their poems in the book. I just feel discouraged cause it’s the first time I openly did something like this. I started my own art account/ video log shortly after submitting these because i want others opinions. I guess I want to feel accepted even though I haven’t taken art classes recently. I mean some people need to learn compromises but I don’t want to feel frustrated like this.
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Sounds like a bad partner. Sounds like a real bad partner. I'm so regretful to hear that you had a partner who, you seem to be right, wasn't very interested in compromise. It sounds to me like she wasn't really interested in anything but her own vanity. But perhaps that's just because I feel for you. Because I know that you could have found a better partner and had a better experience. Poets and visual artists speak different languages even in the same language. Welcome to the initiation into that truth. The artist must do what the poet does. But words don't bend like brushstrokes on canvas or pencil lines in a drawing can. Sure they bend a little, and a good poet can work with that. But overall it sounds like you were a bit too concerned with getting her approval in general, and she was definitely being a little Prima Donna, asking for those changes like that. The truth is you cant draw or paint to match poetry. You can only be inspired by it. And inspired art can only be seen for what it is if it is honest. So long as your images were of a type that is an honest representation of how something in the poem made you "feel" (not "think of"), then the poet has no room to criticize you. And this comes from an old poet from way back, so there you have it. ;)
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