Dealing With Discouragement

[DoubleBarP]

well guys thanks for all the support i am going to do maybe one or 2 more projects then give this a rest

I read a quote somewhere once about those who work with their hands. I believe it was St.Francis of Assissi who said:

"He who works with his hands is a laborer.

He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist".

While I don't pretend to know what your items are although Ido think I recognize Spidy :-)… You seem to fit the definition of artist based on the above definitions… That same definition applies to lots of folks here. Even more so because they all seem to share knowledge and constructive criticism very unselfishly, so those of us who want to get better may do so. Any time someone starts to learn a new skill set that involves artistic / craftsmanship it usually involves an apprenticeship of some sort. I've learned a lot here from those folks that want to help… Bottom line, do something that makes you feel good inside and that you can be proud of as an accomplishment..

Good luck in whatever direction you choose to go..

DBP

Edited June 16, 2012 by DoubleBarP

[Martello]

Hey man, just be cool and keep at it. Whatever you feel like you might be weaker on or want to get better at, go buy some scrap and just do that all day. Just hammer the technique until it's second nature.

There are things out there you'll be fantastic at right out of the gate and other things you're going to need a lot of work on and help with but eventually you'll be looking ta your work trying to figure out how you had such a hard time with it in the first place and offering help for people who have the same issue in the future.

Just keep at it and eventually you'll be flying through it.

To answer your question more directly - I have a heavy bag (which I highly recommend). Whenever something gets be frustrated or discouraged I tee off on it for half an hour and that gets out off of my frustrations enough to where I can go right back to what I was doing.

Give it a shot.

[electrathon]

.... and selling my tools could land me a bit of cash to were i could have a bit of a better audio

Coming from a tool guy here. Never sell your tools. They are the path to what you do. Once you go backwards on the path it is really hard to recover. I am assuming you own them. If you owe money on them, totally differant. Never go into debt, the path is even worse in the wrong direction.

[bluesman1951]

Lets talk about expensive ,that's retaliative to what your finished product sells for . There is a man here doing some fine motorcycle seats that most likely sell way up in the hundreds . For him tooling leather at 8.00 or 9.00 dollars a foot is maybe not a big deal . In the end its a balance between what you pay and what you get . Then there is the customer you are trying to appeal to .Things that work well and are good looking and useful in every day life are what I would try to make .Things for people with more money than time , brief cases and gadget cases for attorneys .Simple things like luggage tags ,and portfolios for professional people . learning seems to come in stages like martial arts you cant skip all the mundane stuff and just go the cool stuff that the master does . Dont work that way . Helps to have a mentor . I wish you good luck with this .

well really my biggest problem is time i use to have the time to be slow and work at was doing but i dont have that much time as i use to between having to work out for my job, taking care of siblings, and just being flat out tired i just find it so hard to get to leather working and then im starting to realize that doing armor leather would be expensive and thats why i started working with leather but never realized it would be so expensive, for a hobby at least.