Confidence in Drawing

Started by Pepperton July 20th, 2015 6:39 PM
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Pepperton

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Posted February 3rd, 2021
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Do you guys feel as though confidence plays a part in the quality of your drawing? Sometimes I feel like when I truly believe that what I'm about to produce on paper will look amazing, it does come out slightly better than other such scenarios when I'm in a bad place and think I'm a complete trash artist. Recently I've been creating some doodles to kind of assess my skill level and in doing that, I am inclined to post this thread in order to receive some insight. Obviously practice is what truly makes or breaks the artist's quality of work, but does confidence have a piece of the pie as well, and at what intensity?

Nina

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Posted December 7th, 2020
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Absolutely! Approaching a drawing with confidence will certainly help with the outcome. There are always still things that will need be worked on, but making confident marks with really show in your work.




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Posted January 6th, 2023
Yes and no, I feel. Confidence is just one of the many emotions that can make your art "good". Same with happiness, sadness, apathy, grief, elation; any variety of emotion, so long as you render it into your art, can make that art more powerful. Drawing to cope or express has the potential to be equally as, if not more so, compelling and meaningful than drawing with a confident, steady hand. Perhaps it wouldn't be as technically correct, or have the same fidelity to your style, but it can still be good.

Now, I realize that's splitting hairs a little bit. If you are in an objectively positive/neutral state, and go into a piece of work with confidence in yourself, that piece with undoubtedly come out better. And even if you're not in a positive state and you go into a piece feeling confident, it could still come out better than had you not been. Confidence definitely does play a role in the quality of your art, but by no stretch of the imagination is it limited or defined by it.
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I find confidence plays a big part in my works. I need to have the confidence to keep improving, more than anything, but also the confidence to put my all into my pieces, and not be scared of the turnout. I think confidence can also be conveyed through a piece, like all emotions, and will make a big impact on how you design a piece.

But in terms of how it improves your work... I would have to say this I really don't think it improves your work so much as accents it, if that makes sense. Moods will subtly change pieces, and sometimes not so subtly. Confidence is no exception, but I don't think it really improves you like practise and learning do. In my experience anyway.