I think not being satisfied with your work is the nature of being an artist. We all have some sort of drive that keeps pushing us forward searching out new visions etc... And, creating an external manifestation of that "vision" is very.... difficult. If we are constantly thinking "I could do better" - you keep going.

Well, for me its that way any way Besides, if an artist was completely satisfied with a work, why would he want to sell it?? *snickers*

But any way, I actually remember reading in a book about how children learned to draw... that either two things happened... Either the frustration of mimic-ing reality causes you to give up, or the frustration pushes you forward.

But any way, I can currently think of only a couple of things I have done that I''m 100% satisfied with.

What really sucks is when you spend 90 hours on something, and just can''t bear to look at it any more

It's frustrating to have an image in my mind that I think would look absolutely awesome, but when I start to draw the image, the figure's posture or the spacing of its components gets in the way of it looking the way I really imagined.

I could swear in my mind the picture is physically possible, but somehow it just doesn't come out that way.

Practice, practice, practice. I don't always try very hard to make it look right to express the emotion I'm looking for. I can make technically correct drawings with few problems. But drawings that are designed to express an emotion, now that's hard.

[edited by - Waverider on January 14, 2003 2:02:04 PM]

I don''t think I have ever been happy with my artwork! I suck at drawing and modeling. At one point, I thought so lowly of myself, I was contemplating the design on an animated stick figure movie!


WikedGamer

I don''t think you should ever really be totally satisfied with your work.

contempt breeds improvement.

You should always be able to look at a finished ''bit of work and say "i like it, but this and that could have been better, i think i''ll try it this way next time".

It''s those little tinkering things that turn good work into great work.

im pretty much 100% without fail, always proud of my work, and damn satisfied... then i look at it again 20 minutes later and i wonder what hallucinogen i was on when i was making the image. Its completely natural to not like your own stuff and crave/envy the styles of others works. Without envy and laziness... i suppose there would be no ''artists'' *shrug*