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When someone tells me "you're so talented" but they haven't seen my work from 5 years ago (thelemmy.club)
submitted 17 hours ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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    [–] 15 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    Self-Improvement is a talent as well.

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    • [–] 6 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

    Pretty much no one starts out good. I consider it far more impressive to start from nothing and build a skill than to just have a natural talent going in.

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  • [–] 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    As an artist, anything you do like two weeks prior looks like shit to you. You're constantly making tiny improvements and noticing things you'd change. You keep improving, so you look back and see all the things that are "wrong" even if it's better than 99.9% of all humans in the history of the world.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago*

    I was just thinking about this the other day. Now with the internet and accessibility to education, the “average” artist from today is leagues more capable in a technical sense than almost anyone from even 100 years ago. You can pick up the basics of character drawing in just a couple years with the right lessons when that would have mostly been trial and error before.

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    • [–] 2 points 16 hours ago

    I was born perfect at everything I can do well.

    (Because everything I failed at I immediately stopped doing.)

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