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Once someone has been labeled an Artist and the label is accepted, everything changes. The artistic license is a license to learn and grow - and to claim the social role of artist, writer, musician, whatever your chosen paths of creative expression are. Your early ugly attempts are no worse than any professional artist's early ugly attempts to draw. Put any time into it at all and you will learn enough to be better than the worst beginners out there. It's like there's a million chain letters going on in society, a viral discouragement meme of "My dreams were broken and I wasn't Good Enough to learn, so no one who isn't as good as I was when I last tried has the right to learn." People who are bitter because they were talked out of pursuing their dreams when some trusted expert like a kindergarten teacher or grade school art teacher said they had no talent are jealous and pass on that discouragement.Įspecially if your early experiments don't look as good as the somewhat skilled drawings they did that didn't pass muster for whatever emotional reason motivated the discouraging teacher. Society being what it is though, there is a lot of social pressure against anyone taking up the arts even as a hobby. They are instinct-gratifying because humanity's success as a species has a lot to do with our ability to communicate and socially bond. Art, music, writing are all elaborations on that basic human activity - the need to communicate. You learned it as an infant and express yourself well in your native language. You weren't born with your language embedded in your genes. The ability to create great art or music or poetry is inherent in human beings. You can be the world's lousiest, least talented artist when you start and that won't last the first week - because some other beginner has a week's less practice than you do and you probably learned something during that week if you drew something and tried. That is literally all it takes to become an artist with all the social freedom that implies. You need to be interested and willing to learn how to do them well. You don't need to be good at painting or drawing to learn how to do artistic works. You need to take the time to make one, sign it and put it in your wallet. You don't have to be Talented to pick up an Artistic License. The reason to print out this card and carry it is to remind you that some unspoken rules need to be broken. This one matters because from kindergarten onward, most people have been told they don't have a right to color outside the lines, sing, draw, write, create poetry or recite it. Colored pens, gel pens, glitter pens, metallic pens are all good materials for decorating your Artistic License.Ī good laugh is enough point for any gag.
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It may look even better with your hand-doodled decorations than a printed diploma-border, since that demonstrates itself. Work out your version to fit the format within your border, print it out and keep it on your wall or in your wallet. I used 11 point Times Roman bold italic for the heading on my Artistic License and 7 point Arial for the body copy so that it'd fit well on a business card. Then drop a space or two, type in an underline and center your name under it. This license entitles the bearer to dress oddly, think deep thoughts, speak up on controversial issues, goof off, spend long periods of time apparently doing nothing, live on an odd schedule or no schedule at all and ultimately work toward an artistic career that's all play and no work - or looks like that because the hard work, dedication and effort needed to succeed is so satisfying it looks like play. Many print shops have very fancy "diploma" bordered sheets you can get.Ĭreative and artistic works demand freedom of expression in all areas of life. It's 2" x 3 1/2" designed to fit on a business card, but you may want to scale it up to letter size and put yours in a diploma frame. For a more official look, find a copyright-free fancy swirls or document border and set your text and signature line within that, or purchase a sheet of fancy-border business cards to print the text on those. I designed it with centered text and doodled images representing art, dancing, writing and music on the sides, but you can lay out yours any way that you prefer. Above is a scan of my own Artistic License card.