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Not Good Enough Mentality
Almost every artist I know has gone through bouts of insecurity. The ‘I’m not good enough mentality’. It can be a crippling fear, an insidious monster that burrows deep within the psyche. I know I’ve certainly gone through it and still do more times than I’d care to admit. But how does one get past the ‘not good enough’ stage? Do we ever? An actor with stage fright who refuses to get on stage doesn’t get very much work. Likewise the artist who is afraid to show his work doesn’t either. Here are five tips to get your work out there as painlessly as possible.
1.Use social media. Thankfully, we live in an age where sharing couldn’t be easier. The internet, social media in particular, provides the perfect forum for artists to share their work. Hidden behind the relative safety of your computer screen, you can post your work to Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, or Snapchat to name a few. Snapchat is perfect for sending a five second pic of your latest work to friends for feedback. The other social media forums, depending on how many of your friends lists are true friends, will work just as well in regards to a providing safe place to share something as personal as your work (assuming you have nice friends who will tell you something constructive as in a critique rather than just telling you that you suck).
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If you prefer to be completely anonymous. Create new accounts under a different name. Consider it…
