18 Problems Only Artists Will Understand

9. When You Can't Find The Exact Colour You Need

The colour wheel is an artist's best friend. Using those six amazing hues, plus black and white, you can create absolutely any shade of any colour you could possibly imagine. Now, if only it were that simple. Colour-mixing can be harder than chemistry. It can take hours of searching for pigments, adding them together, playing with light and dark, working with complementary colours, and even sometimes starting over from scratch when things go awry. And, of course, there are times when you never find the exact hue you were searching for; you either have to compromise or give up, neither of which are particularly fun. Sometimes the 64-box of crayons just doesn't cut it.

8. Having Off-Days When You Really Want To Create

winnie the pooh eeyore disney struggleBuena Vista DistributionFew struggles are worse than when you have a head full of ideas but your hands just won't cooperate. No matter how badly you want to work, there are times when your abilities might are just plain out of whack, and there's nothing you can do about it. You can sit there for hours, staring at your materials and commanding your body to do what you want, only to met with an arduous journey that ultimately ends in failure. The harder you try to force yourself to succeed, the worse and more frustrating it'll get. It's a vicious spiral. Oh, bother.

7. The Terror Of Adding Colour To A Piece

The second you move your hand to make your first brushstroke or set the pencil to the paper, horror music- think the shower scene in €œPsycho€- starts playing because, no matter how amazing a sketched out piece is, it can all fall completely to pieces in a matter of seconds. Adding colour is extraordinarily stressful! Unlike with pencil, you can't erase paint. Oil pastel doesn't just come off. No, that stuff is permanent, meaning that if even the slightest mistake is made, it can ruin the entire piece. It's like a tattoo: you cross your fingers and pray with all your might that it turns out perfectly because there is no going back. When it comes to colour, tread softly.
 
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