Well this is just annoyingly accurate...
And yet how many people consider that little pixel dinosaur to be a beloved part of their internet experience? The world would be poorer without it!
Like yeah I get the frustration of seeing something epic in your head and not being able to make it come out the same on paper. But the greatest gift you can give yourself as an artist is to “yes, and” your art.
The line you just wrote doesn’t sound as dramatic as it did in your head, in fact it makes your character sound sarcastic…. Well, what if the character WAS being sarcastic in that moment? Could that potentially bring something unexpected but fun into the story? Some new angle of character development you hadn’t considered? Maybe, maybe not. But once you start training yourself to give a fair chance to the possibility of being inspired by the ways the work is coming out differently than in your brain, rather than seeing that as a failure, then you open up a whole new world for yourself.
And no idea is ever lost. The epic realistic dinosaur in your brain that came out as pixel art, and then you rolled with it and made a whole bunch of related pixel art… well, the idea of the realistic dino didn’t come to fruition, but it’s not dead and gone. Either you will come back to it later once your art has evolved, or the idea will get mulched and mixed back into the creative currents of your brain, only to resurface in thousands of different ways in many other projects in the future. That’s great too!
