RazorBackBacon
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- Oct 29, 2020
Multitude of factors.
First is the hugboxing. If you're surrounded by people who only praise your work, you'll never be motivated to try your best.
Related, they figure they've "made it" and don't have to try as hard. If you only give 90% on each piece, sooner or later you slide down to only giving 80%, then 70%, and so on, and so on....
Third is their consumption. They don't go to art galleries or watch really knock-your-socks-off artistic animation. These idiots think Steven Universe is bold storytelling. If all you eat is pig slop, you eventually start to think that's how food's supposed to taste. Which brings us to the last point....
They don't study. They don't study from life, and they don't study from the masters. According to student testimony, Rory was heinously hard to work with because she thought she already knew everything. You can't progress in art with that attitude; you've got to study every day, always learn new things, and always always always be willing to go back and work on your fundamentals.
As for the basic question of losing taste, I think it works like this: for most artists, taste runs ahead of skill. You can never get the piece to look like how it looked in your head. That's a good thing, it keeps you motivated to improve. But if you start slipping in terms of skill, because you're lazy, you might have a crisis of confidence. "Why can't I do work like I used to?" Well, one way to resolve that is to just fool yourself into thinking you *meant to do that all along*. So your taste, instead of taking an upward trajectory toward more accurate and pleasing work, takes a downward trajectory towards bullshit. Sadly, I've very rarely seen an artist pull themselves out of this death spiral.
