The Biggest Lie in Woodcarving
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Talking about one of the biggest lies relating to carving and work!
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A lot of people think that you work all day creating art. They don't think about the business side of being an artist, meeting clients, book keeping, people that stop in just to say hi and see what you are working on and many other disruptions. many people don't realize how many times you have to fail to get to the next level of success.
I've been at this for only about 2 years now. I thought I was having "carver's block"! I was worrying that I'd lose interest, and you've just diagnosed my problem. I'm going to feel a whole lot less guilty now that you've set me straight. You sure do possess a large portion of wisdom for a young man! Thanks for cheering me the heck up!
My pleasure! Thank you!
Your right Alec .. Just plain common sense .. Every job becomes mundane and everything you love eventually becomes a issue .. Its called life ..Thank you Alec
Agree... People inside this creative space and outside can benefit from this message. Creativity is important, but greatness often comes from perfect execution of the day to day basics... and sometimes that just means waking up, pulling your pants up, and doing the work. Great point.
Well said, Alex. Nice channel! As a full-time woodcarver and sculptor over the past 30 years, people usually praise talent before hard work.
It’s true!
Alec, I started carving faces a few year ago but I was inconsistent. I learned by watching UA-cam videos. Like the carvers I learned from, the faces, wood spirits, looked like people, somewhat, and then I found you. Your work looks like a living person, not just a mere resemblance of a person. I watched your technique and this changed my approach at how to begin the piece. I was so thrilled when my wife said about one of my pieces, "He looks like ____. " This guy we know. You are an excellent carver and my pieces are looking more like a real person thanks to your videos. For the first time I am beginning to understand what I am doing.
This means a lot! Thanks for taking the time to write! Be blessed!
Thank you for that wonderful quote by Chuck Close. I've added to my list of creativity quotes.
Glad you like it!
Love it great advice extremely well worded, I am a beginner carver, but also a home inspector and contractor, I love what I do with a passion (all 3) it is definitely work - albeit “WORK” I love and enjoy!
Thanks Mark! Appreciate you chiming in!
Yes, I am nodding my head. Doing what you have a passion for, takes work to make it what you want. We’ll put.
I have had many folks tell me I should be selling my carvings. What you are discussing is exactly why I refuse to use my hobby to make money. I have no interest in craft shows or any other selling of my stuff. I rather just give it away.
I carve what I enjoy, when I wish, and without the pressure of have to "produce" carving for sale.
Working for money is just hard work, I learned many years ago that working is not fun. It is why you get paid to do it. I am 70 and now retired but worked almost every day since I was 16. I have often said I never had one enjoyable day of working for money. And I was always good at my job and made a good living.
I will keep my carving hobby just for me, for my pleasure.
Very insightful, Alec. I believe you are absolutely correct - every accomplishment (no matter how much you enjoy it, takes effort). To me, this statement that you reference in your video is akin to: "Practice makes perfect." Neither are true. Practice makes permanent, whereas, perfection comes from failures followed by improvements. Perseverance is the key.
Agatha Christie ended up HATING Hercule Poirot.
After Agatha Christie’s first Poirot book, she immediately wrote Poirot’s last book, which was his death. And then she put that book in a safe. After that, I don’t know how many Poirot books she wrote (LOTS), but she knew that when she was tired of him she could go grab that book out of the safe and be done. I see that as sort of an insurance policy. Knowing she could stop writing about him, and write about her other characters, whenever she wanted, took a lot of the pressure off her. Just like with carving, you want to be a writer… Then write. You want to be a Woodcarver, then carve. She could write about different characters, we can carve different woods. Just don’t stop…pivot.
I can't wait to finish this video since I read this comment at the beginning of watching it and thought, "Hmmm! How is that subject pertinent to this video?"
I'm truly intrigued now 😜
@@theartsypixie2771 It’s working through whatever your artistic endeavor may be…writing/carving..even through those times when you find it difficult. IMO, Christie knew those times would come, they always come, and she gave herself an “out”..having the last Poirot book written and tucked away. For carving, for me, (I’m also an author and a columnist) it’s in the middle, where the piece looks horribly ugly and my brain tells me that there is no way of saving it…toss it now. But, there is a way. Just keep carving. Best wishes.
Well said and it also diminishes how hard creatives work to make their art!
It always feels like work! I think what they are having trouble describing is when I am away from work I like what I do and always feel a sense of satisfaction from the work I accomplished.
That’s it!
So happy to hear another person shed light on this stupid saying. I've said this for years. "Doing what you love doesn't make work 'not work': it just makes it easier to deal with terrible days. Work is still work no matter what you do." I followed this "advice" to become an IT professional bc as a kid I loved messing around with computers. Now I freaking can't stand being in front of a computer when I'm not on the clock--especially if I have time to go carve or whittle, or be creative.
Amen!
You'll find that with anything, hobbies, dogs, kids, feeding the woodstove and anything repetitive, especially the job. Procrastination is one of the common forms and I'm guilty.
Well put!
Well put!
I'm almost 80. Your words about "pushing through" are pithy with the wisdom of experience.
I appreciate it
We see great artists from centuries ago, but we do not see the work that they had to do to get that good.
I am retired now, but as a mechanic I would complete a difficult task and others would say, that was easy. OK, it only took me 20+ years to make difficult jobs look easy.
Yes!
There is a huge YT artist named Jazza and he actually lets his watchers know that he loves his job but he does struggle with burn out.
There you go!
how about, do what you love and you won't hate your job everyday, that might be better :). Well said.
That’s a much better saying!!
That’s a much better saying!!
Discipline is doing what you don’t really Want to know but which will lead to some better outcome in the future. Whether it’s to practice and musical instrument, get better at a sport, learn a subject getting to a place of pride, success, expertise always involves perseverance and doing some things so repeatedly, consistently over a longer period of time than you’d prefer is (unhappily for some) the name of the game. US wrestling great Jordan Burroughs summed it up perfectly. “Embrace the grind.”
Love it!
Totally agree . I started carving as a hobby , I absolutely love it . People ask me to carve this or that and 90 % of the time I say no . I don’t want my hobby to become work . I was recently asked to carve a coal miner , never done one before but I gave it a go . The guy was over the moon with it , strangely enough it ended up looking like a miner ……usually every carving I do ends up looking like Santa !
And, the worst part is....most people aren't willing to pay you minimum wage for all the hours you have into creating a piece when they can buy some cheap-assed 'made in china' piece of mass produced JUNK...It's sad. I get it. That is why I don't sell my carvings...On a positive note, WCI is a quality publication. If you want to learn to carve, BUY IT!...Thanks, Alec...Keep the faith
I have every copy 1 to 104
I do not carve wood to make $ . . .
Yup! The payoff for fighting the drudge battle daily is growth. Now go rub some dirt on it and get back to life! -- Sock Monkey. Yes, you can quote me too!
Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. ~Kurt Vonnegut
I love this quote so much!
Interesting
lol take your vitamins 👍