Have you ever destroyed your art? Why?
>>8059520Yes it makes me feel powerful and rich
yeah, it makes me feel alive.because i need the space to make another better thing>*vigorously manic erasing noises*
The Paper Shredder is my ally.
Yes I often get mad if I see my old piecesSo I hide them and then they often get destroyed
>why>isn't curious what my "art" even was
>>8059520I delete all of my digital drawings and refrain from looking at any of my drawings in my sketchbook until its full then I just throw it away. I hate looking at any of it for any reason
I don't, but I understand the appealrecently I looked at some of my art from 4 years ago and it's weird to see how deformed some of the pieces I thought were alright areso there's a limit to how much you can even see at a certain point in time
>>8059520No, i keep them to remind myself that improving is possible, but its not like id show them to anyone ever.
I draw porn and I still live with my family. They know about it. In fact, we buy groceries and other things with the money I earn. However, I don't want them to find any of my drawings, so I destroy them. It’s not a huge loss because I usually sketch traditionally and then scan and finish the drawings digitally. On the other hand, lately I’ve started using technical pens and colored pencils to make the most of the daily power outages. I destroy those drawings, too.
>>8059630Damn bro
quite the contrary. I keep everything.And I really mean EVERYTHING.
>>8059757soul
>>8059520have a staple of sketchbooks where i drew one object daily for a duration of several months. id like to burn them, give them a proper burial but i know i farewell the one who was sick and hungry, and screaming for it, like blood transfusions and medicine to stay alife. i knew i always had to be the master of me, and cherrish my axiom of having passion for oneself. i just didnt know i would be that intricate. i wish i had someone to burn the books with.
>>8059520yeah, i wanted to break shit and they were just graphite and ballpoint pen bullshityk when i started out i thought looking back on my good works would be cool, now i dont care, if i wake up and i cant draw well it doesnt matter whatever i have drawn before, its trash taking up space on my desk
>>8059779faggot lol
>>8059520Had to trash most of my sketchbooks when I was finished university
Artist friend in school had an instructor who insisted his students destroy an assignment they had completed. Struck me as kind of a gimmick. The instructor had some explanation that it was a lesson of sorts. I don't remember exactly what it was but I do remember not being convinced.I don't often destroy my own work. I even hesitate to throw away sketches on the backs of junk mail envelopes. Still, I've lost some design notebooks in the past. My kids are true draw-every-day types and it is just everywhere. Still, I don't throw much of it away.
>>8059610>>8059612>>8059845ok But WHY?Keeping bad beginner art is a great way of seeing how far you've come.Plus you guys don't realize how much imperfect art will be worth once everything is AI
>>8059856>The instructor had some explanation that it was a lesson of sorts. I don't remember exactly what it was but I do remember not being convinced.I think I heard something similar one time and the reason given was along the lines of it making you less afraid of failure or ruining a piece, and giving you more freedom.Say you find some useful crutch or method that looks good, might be quite tempting to just stick with it as a sort of local maximum of art-quality that is hard to get out of unless you accept that finding even better approaches may make your art suck a little more in the transition.If your art is going to be destroyed afterwards you can throw away any sort of shame about the result and try all kinds of new techniques or approaches. No worrying of "omg this is gonna look like shit in my sketchbook, someone is gonna see my bad drawing" etc.I think this is also partially why learning to draw may feel more frustrating to adults than it does to children - the adults see their beginner art as being shit and it makes them feel bad, while the child is just funmaxxing drawing whatever it wants, even if it's technically bad, trying all kinds of art approaches and getting in the mileage.(Big part of it is that the child just doesn't see/assess the technical quality of the drawing accurately too, of course.)
>>8059520Because it is fun, if you don't do art because it fun, why the fuck are you doing art for? Even destroying my art is fun hahahahaha
>>8059864kill your darlings etc.
>>8060392Yeah, the explanation was something along those lines, though you've done a better job of it. Only difference is, there was no warning beforehand. Students didn't know they were to destroy the work until they'd finished it. Your explanation still works, it's just that this particular lesson was only about the ability to discard a piece half, and not the making you less afraid of failure half, I suppose.
>>8059520YES BECAUSE ITS FORM OF DEPENSE/NONPRODUCTIVE EXPENDITURE
>>8059864Not them, but space. I've trashed a lot of drawings over the years, stuff that was going no where and I was never going to use for anything. I still have plenty of art from my early days, I just got rid of the most worthless doodles.
I trash most of my stuff. Typically before I toss a sketchbook I go through it and rip out pages that I think are worth keeping. I do my gesture practice on scrap paper since that'll always get thrown away.
>>8059520Yes. I don't throw everything away, but I hate looking back or hoarding things because it takes up space—both physically and mentally. Especially the unfinished stuff. I get rid of it to start “from scratch” every two or four years. It's like a cleansing ritual.
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