It’s a rocky relationship at times with my creative hobby. They say life imitates art as art imitates life, and nothing mirrors it more than the creative process. A hobby is like a lover, someone who holds your hand when no one else is there to keep you company, someone who makes the nights less lonely. But like a lover, they have a life of their own, as do you. When things come up in your life and in theirs, there will be conflicts and distances. Sometimes you have to take some time apart to appreciate what you had. Perhaps you’ll come back in a week, a month, or a few years. Your lover will be waiting though, they will always be there to keep you company on the nights where you feel alone.
With that in mind, I don’t think there’s a hobby I’ve given up on. We’re just taking a break for a while.
You don’t really “give up” on hobbies. It’s not like you’re never gonna touch it again for the rest of your life. At some point within the next 70-something years of your life, you probably will. You just don’t want to right now. You might come back around to it eventually. You never know.
you aren’t wrong, I just explained the topic horribly but I was more so imagining people who take something new they found interesting and worked on it for a while but they felt like it wasn’t working out and gave up, or maybe even people who took hobby to make it into a source of income and such
I did very briefly try to make art my career, but that job market’s completely fucked and I don’t have the work ethic to draw things for other people anyway. I work best when it’s purely for the love of the game.
Tried my hand at modelling, both in Roblox Studio and Blender but I lost motivation.
Drawing on the other hand is kinda hard to get back into cos I struggled a lot with finding the proper motivation to do it, as it is sometimes fuelled by whatever hyperfixation I am currently on. Its honestly very depressing when there isn’t much attention or any kind of interaction when I do post my art…..
Honestly, don’t bother with getting interactions. I personally thought about it and I always found it unfair that when i saw for example a small youtuber’s video on my Youtube recommendation I would usually ignore it cuz it probably isn’t that special. BUT for some reason I expect interactions when I do something pretty beginner/basic.
Essentially I think it’s a little selfish if you expect to get interactions for your beginning steps. This one is a bit negative but IMO it’s a negative trait that people leave unnoticed which ruins their mental health unnecessarily.
here’s a positive one, Let’s say you do get a few views or interactions and such. let’s say like it’s 5-10 people. If you really think about it, It’s 10 people coming up to you and telling you your work is cool.
Like imagine your at school and you present your project and 10 people came up to you and told you it’s cool… I mean you would feel so positive and motivated about that no? Don’t undermine interactions to numbers. It’s actual people telling you your work is cool. Even 1-3 people is pretty neat.
Also, Try to understand the difference between making meaningful progress and doing something for the sake of looking good.
Sure making cool stuff will always get interactions, but what you value more should be the things you learn and come to understand.
As a beginner you will likely get a huge boost of motivation every time you learn to do something new, or you figured something out like you made a good art piece compared to your previous ones or your new beat is much better and musical then the older.
This source is 100 times more effective then the whole interactions train. DO NOT undermine that when you get little to no interactions as the value you got from learning that new technique or information is much higher then the interactions you get early in the long run.
Also quick note, Talk to people about it. I literally ask my brother to help sometimes and literally tell him that It’s stressful and shi. Find a way to vent stuff and be honest about it.
We are all humans and we will get mentally tired.
However, the one that can maintain good mental health while making meaningful progress will always win. because he has found his own way to keep moving no matter how many breaks or set backs they face.
Just find a way to vent it, Most people get overwhelmed by stress more then the actual complexity of the work and for some reason no one talks about that.