Art and what I do.

I've been talking with my friend for a while and this conversation came up:

I think I made the modelers happy telling them how cool they were 24/7

cause they were like "some jerk artists tell us they're the -real- artists and we're just workers! DX"

I'm not going to reveal which friend or who I was talking with because I don't know if I'm really allowed to say anything but the gist of it is, the modellers are the people who take other people's drawings and then bring them into the 3-D world. And it made me once again think about my position and what I want to do with my life. 

What I want to do is to bring other people's work into this world. I like looking at images and those images inspire me to make things. If you put down a piece of paper in front of me that's blank, I will stare at that blank piece of paper and not really know what to do with it. I don't design nor have I really tried to design because my inspiration doesn't work that way. However, put down a piece of art in front of me and my mind will work over time, thinking of the fabrics or materials which can be used, putting together the construction method in my head or devising a few methods of construction and then choosing the best one.

Not always choosing the best one first off, my experience levels are still growing so often I would choose the wrong one.

But it comes back to that point.

Am I an artist?

artist |ˈärtist|

noun

a person who produces paintings or drawings as a profession or hobby.

• a person who practices any of the various creative arts, such as a sculptor, novelist, poet, or filmmaker.

• a person skilled at a particular task or occupation: a surgeon who is an artist with the scalpel.

• a performer, such as a singer, actor, or dancer.

My dictionary brings that up when I have a look for the definition. It's not really something that I have been able to find. Everyone I talk to gives me a different definition of what they believe an artist is. I've been told by a few people that they think I'm an artist and been told by a few others that they don't really think that I am.

Personally, I don't think I'm an artist. To me, the artists are the people that inspire me. The ones that create the images that get my creative juices going so that I make things that are featured on this blog. I can't design things on my own. I would love to be able to design pretty dresses or accessories with my own trademark to sell but the things I sell on my etsy are all going to be creations from images that other people have designed. They will always be fan recreations. 

I want to make it into the industry and not be well known as the artistic creator or anything but I want to be able to work under these people and be asked to create these things into the 3-D world. I would love to be able to work in theatre or a movie production set and be able to work on the set or the costumes and put together these things. I'm not a good painter so my set work would be more limited to the actual construction and painting colour onto things rather than actual scenery or such but...that's what I want to do.

I don't know if that makes me an artist. I don't have the confidence to label myself as an artist.

All I know is...this is what I want to do and for the next few years, it's the dream I'm going to be pushing to catch with my own two hands.