I guess I just feel worthless if I'm not creating something. Drawing, and painting are my life long loves of creation, because it doesn't really serve a purpose except to please me. It always relays a message of some sort. All art work does, whether the artist means for it to or not. You can usually see things like anger, tired, joy, energy, love, and hate. (only to name a few) I've tried to quit, but it always returns. Bitter and sweet.

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I feel similar to Jeff. Simply put, I feel a bit worthless if I'm not creating.

My life long goal is to relearn how to draw purely for joy. At some point I began regarding art as a form of laborious exercise and not recreation... When I don't draw, I'm taunted by the success of others; but I'm making progress and doing my damnedest to draw for fun.

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I've always created by drawing since i was a little kid. I can't specifically recall any reason other than perhaps being awed that a few of my scrapings on a piece of paper with a pointy stick might actually resemble a face or a person, or a giant jack-o-lantern that shot lightening bolts out of its eyes frying little stick people, hehe. I got into drawing muscles from He-Man, and super heroes from the X-Men. Then puberty hit, and i drew muscular heroines purely to satisfy my teenage pubescent needs.
Since taking "Graphic Communications" class in high school, i realized i could actually be saying something in my work. Something important - i would draw a lot of little comics depicting the wrongs of people who oppress on the basis of their religious affiliation, cuz in a small church town like the one i lived in, that was very abundant.
Eventually, my lust-needs and my message-making needs came together when i started becoming infatuated with plus sized women and their beautiful figures.
Sorry, for the history, but it illustrates how i got to this point - now i draw to have fun, and portray a positive attitude towards a very oppressed group of people, showing they can be beautiful and sexy, too. I still try to think of ways of alerting people to the evils of organized religion, but it's taken a back-burner to big girls, because, well, i'm kind of a sell-out for comments, and i get more comments from my BBW work. But i do enjoy it, so it's not really selling out. And i'm not selling anything, heh. And i'm getting out a very important message that i strongly believe in.
And that's why i create, hehe.

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creation is very natural
it is divine language that has meaning itself

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So you are a recovering artist? Keep the addiction alive in you sir, don't stop.

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Art school did mess with me for a while. It did make things very unenjoyable because of all of the strict rules and regulations. I have always tried to go above the rules and keep my own style or change the assignment requirnments. Thanks for sharing, and keep on chuggin.

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Thank you for sharing, I do not mind the history at all. The jack-o lantern had to put squeezed in there somewhere. I too sometimes struggle with relying a political message. I have tons of ideas flowing through my mind at all times, and my art for the past few months has just been automatic. Its fun, but lacks that message. I feel that my art can be better, can be about something.

What I question is, when I pass on.. what will I leave for others to remember me by? That makes me want to do create masterpieces.

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Mike you so Mystiacal. And all so very true.

A lot of times, we create just to create. We are our own gods in my opinion.

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I'm a recovering artist every year. I almost always quit in the winter, and struggle to get going again in the spring. I'll try year around though. Thanks.

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