but the thread is called /what makes an artist/ ?

seriously, congrats though, if you're heading in that direction. i would really like to go that route, but another part of me is just super done with school altogether.

The thread may be called that, BUT if you read what wrote, she clearly stated "So what do you think makes you an artist?", going as far as to BOLD the word "YOU".

oops, sorry? you're right, i'm wrong!

and since i gave sort of a silly answer before, this is what i think makes an artist:

good ideas, executed skillfully, in a way that has not been done before, or, shines light on something previously done.

the desire to provoke.

to take a little piece of your soul and put it into something, like a baby, and love it and raise it and make it just as perfect and fragile as it needs to be, and then throw it out into the cold where it might die.

to take in everything around you and learn, learn, learn.

to continue to notice details and to fall in love with the way things are, and the way things can be in your work. and to do it with skill, and with uniqueness, and most of all, bravery.

I agree with you 100%, actually.

That concept can apply to drawn art, to sculptures, to needlework, to... anything really. Even jewelry or clothing. A true artist will strive to make their next piece better than their last, improve their methods and technique.

And I mean on a technical and, uh, spiritual (maybe? idk what word to use) scale. You can be technically good but produce uninspired, dead-looking or generic work. But someone who, say, pours their creative soul into improving technically AND making a work full of life- yep there you have it. An artist.

...To me, anyway!