The thing nobody tells people who are beginners - advice for creatives.

11/19/2012

3 Comments

tuism

Saw this on makegamesSA (originally from Zenpencils) and it was such a great sentiment we all proceeded to love it and argue about its semantics. Really it’s something that anyone doing anything creative should take heed of. Enjoy!

Read it, absorb it, and let me know what you think of it 🙂

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11/20/2012 / ReplyDanae
Another thing they don't tell you is that there'll always be someone better, so do what you love or you'll be miserable forever.

11/20/2012 / Replytuism
Agreed. It's always better to base your happiness on yourself rather than others, so what does it matter if someone else is better or not? I do what I want, whether I love it or not (cos I certainly don't love coding but by fuck I have to do it to have a game)

12/06/2021 / ReplyJ
Spot on :> This is exactly how I often feel. I have the inspiration, but when I do creative things (play guitar, program a game, draw concept art, create 3D models, learn german...) in most cases I often have that feeling of good, but not good enough. However, I am not giving up! I still have a few years on the clock and hopefully before I die I will be able to speak another foreign language, play an instrument and make a fully fledged game with my own concept art design and music ;)