I enjoy the process naturally, but it’s not joy as in watching a movie or eating some dessert or sex.

It’s enjoyment comparable to playing a game, but not quite either. It’s challenging, you need to sharpen your skills, you can fuck up at any moment, you can fuck up and not even notice. You will, in fact. And that’s just the hands on part, I’m not talking about the ideas or even the sharing and communicating. Which is also tied to it.

For me the most challenging part is overcoming inertia to get started. Finding that motivation when you are depressed is very hard. Once I do the rest unfolds on its own. Problem with motivation is that it’s different for everyone and very elusive. For me, I need to either get paid, or have a practical reason to do the art (ie. Someone needs it for a specific reason or cause), or have an audience that engages with what I do. Feedback, back and forth. Healthy competition. Those things used to exist for me online a decade ago, but has been eroding ever since AI boomed, also platforms have been getting worse and worse, designed to curate a feed for you with little to no focus on the comments or community behind the work. Basically I thrive and find motivation in places where I can engage with my audience more personally and become others’ audience in that way, where discovery is up to me and not an algorithm that automatically ranks things for you, where I can see people’s reactions to my work as opposed to a number of views or likes.

I’ve been trying to find an online group of people to keep motivation up, something with tasks you are held accountable to similar to a class but with no accreditations or curriculum. So far I haven’t been lucky. Things seem to be either courses or prompts given out at large on popular media platforms. Neither works for me. One lacks the peers or is too expensive, the other lacks the interpersonal aspect.

Anyway, end of rant, but imo your motivation for visual art shouldn’t be too different from your motivation for writing, whatever that is. I don’t write fiction because I know for a fact I have no interest (not consistently at least) in exploring a myriad narrative plots or characters backstories , or to polish my prose, or to figure out how to best keep interest while narrating something. These do occur to me from time to time but I’m not driven to exploit that vein. It’s different with designs though, where I do. I look at different materials and I’m compelled to experiment with them at least once. The list goes on.

If shame or shyness is the only thing stopping you, remember, you don’t need to publish anything you don’t want to. Start, see how you feel, remember you can always revise work later on.

Are you asking people to… What, exactly? …
I guess I’m dumb and inquiring then

No

If anything I compare my car’s condition to theirs.

Just post online more often. People will point at your mistakes

Depends. Many times, yes it is rude. To figure it out I take into account relevance and understandable curiosity. Is it relevant to the situation? What’s their demeanor towards me? But it’s hard to tell, really. Some people wear a mask better than others. And it can get annoying when you hear it several times a day.

Not sure I agree with your appreciation of the elevator. I don’t know where you are (I’ve never heard “ope” either) but at least in Australia not everyone faces the door in an elevator. I’ll copy my own comment left below to someone else:

…you are in an elevator for a very short time, unlike with public transport for example. You might as well be facing the direction you need to go to, so that when the doors open, you go, instead of having to turn and then go.

Second… I regularly take crowded elevators and while it’s true that almost nobody stands facing back to the door, it’s also true that easily half the people choose to stand sideways, facing the side walls. (Which btw makes someone with a pram or wheelchair easier to get into the elevator). It’s a mix of being ready to go and being able to rest your back against the walls of the elevator more than an unspoken social convention.

Disagree. First of all, you are in an elevator for a very short time, unlike with public transport for example. You might as well be facing the direction you need to go to, so that when the doors open, you go, instead of having to turn and then go.

Second… I regularly take crowded elevators and while it’s true that almost nobody stands facing back to the door, it’s also true that easily half the people choose to stand sideways, facing the side walls. (Which btw makes someone with a pram or wheelchair easier to get into the elevator). It’s a mix of being ready to go and being able to rest your back against the walls of the elevator more than an unspoken social convention.

Edit: hey well, at least in Australia. Maybe wherever you live everyone faces the door in an elevator.

Try one of the questions communities. This isn’t a showerthought

Wat

Be the change you wish to see. Personally I’m not holding back information, sadly there is only so much I know about.

It varies a lot by brand. Also make sure to shake it well. But yeah it’s alright. I prefer regular milk though

Considering you posted on lemmy.world and the reply came from dbzero, it’s likely banned by lemmyworld. It’s your instance choosing not to federate with dbzero, but dbzero users can still see and engage with world posts.

I don’t think I know this one? I tried searching but nothing comes up under that name for a meme

Hah that’s not too bad to contrast the two, I like this.

Lol this is hilarious but no, it doesn’t describe the vibe. Thanks for posting it though

No. If I make mistakes let the people point them out.

A giant three pronged fork is a trident

This still doesn’t change my answer. Enjoy your trip

Holy shit I remember catching that one too. Didn’t cry, but I don’t judge you for it. Most awful virus I ever remember catching

Going to bed before midnight and actually sleeping