I haven't updated the blog in a good long while. It is time
for another entry, and...actually this is going to be something of a rant.
Yesterday, I posted a silly picture of a dinosaur wearing a fancy hat - I
doodled it out myself, snapped a picture on my phone and uploaded it to
Facebook. I was feeling silly that night and wanted to express myself - I was
really just expecting some likes, maybe a comment or two having a good chuckle
at my drawing of a Tyrannosaurus wearing a top hat. Just a quick five minute
doodle. Nothing more than that.
...Instead, I got an indecipherable comment telling me my
job was somehow more secure for having posted the picture (which doesn't even
begin to make sense), and then when I pressed for an explanation, he said that
I would be better served doing other things and, basically, my drawing sucked.
Which, initially, I found enormously rude and very, very obnoxious (an opinion
I still hold, by the way.). I am well aware that I'm not a very good artist, I
don't need people telling me that. I wasn't trying to be Rembrandt. I was being
silly. (By the way, I deleted that comment chain if you go to look at the
picture. I'm not going to name names.).
But then I started to think about it and the more I thought
about it, the more it began to piss me off. (Pardon my French.) and all the
implications that went with it. Apparently, I shouldn't ever do anything I'm not
good at, because I would be better off doing other things. Who cares if I have
fun doing it? Who cares if it only took five minutes of my time? Pfft. Who
cares if its only a hobby I indulge in occasionally with no intention of ever
pursuing that as a job or career? Nope. I'm a terrible artist. Therefore, of
course, drawing is beneath me and I shouldn't do it ever under any
circumstances, and if I do I shouldn't share it ever because it's not super
good (or even very good). Because my time and talent could go elsewhere. Oh
yes, of course.
I could on in this vein for some time. But I won't, I think
I've made my point. But because I can and because that particular comment annoyed me so much, I'm going to continue
posting random doodles on Facebook every day this week, starting tonight.
Whatever the hell I want to draw. Purely because I can.
