Ever just find yourself unable to look at it?

[Glass]

Something you've been working on, I mean. I finished the story for a comic that I've been working on with a friend of mine, and we've been plugging away at putting this thing together for awhile. And I look at the story, and it just doesn't do it for me. I know I need to re-do almost the whole damn thing, but I really don't want to look at this thing right now. I know my partner'll be pissed off if I don't deliver him something, and honestly, I like working with the guy, we get on each other's nerves once in awhile but we work really well; I'd do something short with him, even if just to get more work in together and have something that's nice and short.

OK, so I rambled. Sue me. But really, do you ever just get to the point of looking at something you've worked on, go "ugh, crap", and not want to work on it? Any advice? I ought to just put my nose to the grindstone and work through this, shouldn't I?

[Hastur T. Fannon]

Put it away and work on something else. Don't touch it for a month

Tell your mate the situation and work on something different. Five-page comics (Future Shocks, etc.) are a really challenging form - Alan Moore cut his teeth writing them

[FeatsofClay]

It is more than just a little different for me, but yes.

I smash it, throw it in the dumpster ( and then rearrange the trash to cover it) and go back to the other pieces. About 60% of my work gets destroyed. Not all of that is the 'Ugh' factor, some of it is glazing flaws or such but some of it is the big 'Ick!'

[Scarbonac]

I've been known to smash panel paintings, shred canvases and fill garbage bags with crumpled and torn drawings.

My painting professor would occasionally build bonfires with "unsuccessful" canvases.

Sometimes ya gotta say "FUCK YOU, ART! DIEDIEDIE!!!11!1"

[Northcott]

Man, it's not often that I actually like my own work. Usually I just give a "meh", decide that it'll have to do, and try to let it go.

[Glass]

Yeah, but I've seen your work. It's nice, real nice. Better than that, it's good.

[Glass]

I've been known to smash panel paintings, shred canvases and fill garbage bags with crumpled and torn drawings.

My painting professor would occasionally build bonfires with "unsuccessful" canvases.

Sometimes ya gotta say "FUCK YOU, ART! DIEDIEDIE!!!11!1"
Hell yes, occasionally I just feel the urge to kill it with fire.

[Northcott]

Yeah, but I've seen your work. It's nice, real nice. Better than that, it's good.
Thanks. But there's a world of difference between other people seeing that, and seeing that in your own creations. I look at my work, and I see the flaws first and foremost. There's only a handful of works over the years that I actually like.

[Atropine Mama]

I've been known to smash panel paintings, shred canvases and fill garbage bags with crumpled and torn drawings.

My painting professor would occasionally build bonfires with "unsuccessful" canvases.

Sometimes ya gotta say "FUCK YOU, ART! DIEDIEDIE!!!11!1"

:eek:

This hurts my little, penny-pinching heart. I would always gesso over canvas and re-use it if I hated what I'd done before.

Any more I put things away and try to forget about it. This backfires into me actually forgetting about it, and not coming back to it for years. Not good.

[GreyOne]

Yeah, fuck. Art stuff is expensive.

[Glass]

Put it away and work on something else. Don't touch it for a month

Tell your mate the situation and work on something different. Five-page comics (Future Shocks, etc.) are a really challenging form - Alan Moore cut his teeth writing them
Just figured I'd say thanks for the advice again, man; this is exactly what we've started doing, I'm writing several shorts that are different from what he normally does(superheroes), and it's a very exciting thing for the two of us. Thanks, RF.