be recognized as an artist

people really noticed my talent. Some people already know it, but now I am considered the best in my school, so that’s pretty cool. Kinda weird though. I get a lot of attention from it, and that can get annoying. Like today, I was doing a watercolor of this girl wiht her hair in the wind, and this random kid kept asking me questions, and was showing everyone my picture. It was kinda funny. But my new goal is to be humble. I really already am, mostly just because I’m so hard on myself and don’t know what to say half the time when people compliment my work, except thank-you. lol. But I want to remain humble, though I’m sure I will. It’s kind of ingrained, and I am aware of the fact that I am. And egotistic pretentious pricks annoy the hell outta me. lol.

recognized as an artist by most people in my art classes, teachers, and people who have seen my stuff. But for some reason I feel strange calling myself one. I’ve one quite a few awards such as mayor’s choice award, people’s choice award, a gold key and two silver keys. But I want to be a well known artist, like one that people recognize in the community. I want to paint murals, and maybe become a tattoo artist.

I’ve taken up photography, and bought a Pentax K20D. Now I want to learn as much as possible, and then have my work shown in a gallery. Maybe even sell some of my pictures.

If you want to become a recognized artist….check out www.artition.com…I am there too and I love it…you can get really good connections there

Wow. This is EXCACTLY what i want to do, except maybe in a diffrent way than most people would think. Man, I want to become recognized just as good manga artist!

So I am interning this summer in California at the Headlands Center for the Arts just outside of San Francisco. It is sort of like an artist colony, with up to 20 resident artists at any time. I will pretty much be doing grunt work for the artists, but I’m so excited! I’ve never been to California, and I will be in an atmosphere conducive to creativeness. Right now I feel so creative and excited and alive, I just want to create beauty. This summer will be amazing. Oh, and my boyfriend refers to me as an artist. He doesn’t know that it’s a goal of mine, and when he says that it makes me feel validated. Someone besides myself recognizes me as an artist.

I think this goal is improperly worded for me, as what it really entails is having someone recognize me from my artwork and give me reassurance, rather than self recognition.
I don’t know if i’m entirely comfortable with the fact that i would rely so heavily on the opinion of others for my own validation, but, as popeye says-
i yam what i yam.

i hopefully have a large amount of work being published this semester in various campus publications, so i may complete this goal yet

I do consider myself artistic, though I am always my biggest critic, and have very few “masterpieces” as a result. But I think if I create in quantity, I should have a better chance of finding things of true quality. I have been TRYING to make myself create at least one thing every day, though often, it REALLY takes me two days to generate a new thing. I have found cafepress.com as a fun place to display some of my creations-so this has become my landmark for myself…how many stores have I populated. I think once I have created a consistant “look” for my designs I may feel more comfortable in calling myself an “artist” because I’m a bit scattered-some designs are silly, some are technical illustrations—I would like to find the style most suiting of my abilities.