If so then you probably also thought that you could have done a better job (and maybe that's true). Here's the dirty little secret of making progress with your career...
EVEN IF IT'S NOT YOUR BEST WORK, YOU HAVE TO GET IT OUT!
Most of us creative folks are perfectionists that revise and wait and fix and toil away on something which never ends up seeing the light of day. We want it - no - we NEED it to be 100% quality.
But if the cost of 100% quality is that you never finish it and get it out before the eyes of the world, then what good is it? Beautiful half finished work is collecting dust in closets the world over.
DO THE BEST YOU CAN but don't sacrifice finishing it.
If finishing it and getting it out means that you can only deliver 50% of your potential, then do it. Get it out. Show it to the world and then do a little better on your next round. Grow incrementally. Stop waiting to be perfect before you announce your existence.
The world (including those that would hire you) will be far more impressed by seeing you work relentlessly to improve than they will by seeing you step out from your cave completely free of flaws.
First impressions are overrated. Persistence is king.
Get busy.
2 comments:
Posts like this are the reason why I, as a writer, follow art blogs. There is a lot of carry over between drawing/painting and writing techniques. This post says loud and proud what I've been saying for a long time. Just get your work done and out there. Don't keep it bottled up until the one moment where you perfect it. That moment may never happen.
Jamwes,
Kudos to you for carrying that message, man. It's so true and it really needs to be heard. It is SO EASY to act unconsciously and let the auto pilot of habit keep us from fulfilling our dreams.
Thanks for dropping a line.
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