Welcome To Portrait Tutorial #13
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Todays Subject: Jim Carrey
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Jim Carrey....the man who has been giving hope to all us crazy Canadians since the 80's.
For the past while I have neglected putting as much time into creating after going about 3 months solid of none stop art making and When I say I spent 3 months none stop creating I mean it. In this period of time for a multitude of reasons I was unable to work and the only thing that made me feel good about life was making art. I would wake up in the morning, make my coffee and sit down to my pencil and paper while playing some music. I would stop for about an hour or so in the middle of the day, mainly to get something to eat, but sometimes being caught up in what I was doing even rush my breaks by making something quick and easy and returning to work. I had made drawing/Steemit/crypto investing my temporary job, which during this time I had felt blessed to have discovered. After so long I got to the point where I'm looking at all these instagram artist and thinking to myself. What's the point of even attempting to get that good. Why keep doing this. As an artist the daunting reality of in our own mind never being able to truely reach perfection can be intimidating. I'm happy to say that I have now returned to work and life is starting to get somewhat back to normal. But those big "Why" questions about what I have spent so much time doing, still lingered on for a while.
Now this might sound a little silly, but I'm not ashamed to say It was actually after watching a Netflix special on Jim Carey that sparked the creative flame in me once more. Hearing him explain actually how truely deep and representative of his career as a whole his catch phrase "alrighty then" really was. This phrase enitialy started after one night at the comedy store he went up on stage to do his bit and started off with saying " how is everyone doing tonight.... ALL RIGHTY THEN!" Cause he truely didn't care... he was about to do him no matter what anyone thought of him.
He mentioned about how one night he awoke from being dead asleep and sat straight up in bed all of a sudden with an Epiphany. The less he cared about what people thought of his work. The more sense it all made to him, leaving him completely free of all worry. This carefree freedom and confidence to be himself could be thought of as what made Jim Carey... Jim Carey! And brought about a lifetime of great success.
So what I take away from all that is this... be prepaired to see many more of these kinds of art pieces. Because they are apart of who I am. And I'm gonna keep sharing this part of me with the world no matter what. Because I love this part of me, and it makes me feel good! I no longer care that I may not ever reach world class levels of art. I will every time reach Barry Fredrick Samways level. Which is just as well.
Thank you to everybody reading for sharing your time with me during this period of my life. Much love and enjoy checking out the step by step process.
