Learning through the struggle

I am trying to learn to use my Wacom tablet for drawing in photoshop.  I drew the bird above no less than 10 times and I am still not completely thrilled with it but it is better than the first one I drew.

 

By nature I am someone who has a million ideas, I think "I could do that!" and when I fail to meet my expectations I give up and try something else. 

Around Christmas time last year I started to see a new possibility through my art.

I realized the struggle and the working through was important and vital to the process.

So many times I paint something and think "eh, I don't like how THAT turned out."

And now instead of hanging my head I move on, I let it sit, I paint over it, I don't dwell.

I am naturally creative but not naturally artistic...does that make sense?

Being creative is part of me, the itch that keeps itching. 
If time for creativity is lacking I get crabby.

But being artistic, that is a muscle that needs to be worked.