Does anyone else ever have this problem? You work on a drawing (or any creative project I guess) and you think it's done, but at the same time you're sure you can do more with it even if you're not sure what that something is. I have this problem a lot when drawing. It'll be about as done as it can get, but it'll still feel like I can improve it somehow, even if I don't know how. Then sometimes I go too far and end up ruining whatever it is that I'm working on and I'll have to either keep going until I fix it, or try to revert the changes. And then when it's finally done and I put the pen down, I'll see some tiny mistake or something that could have easily been fixed. So when do you know for sure that a project is finished? Do you keep going until it's perfect, until it's "good enough" or until you just kind of get sick of working on it and give up on improving it any further?
I'll work on an art project for three days, and then that's it. After that, even if it looks done or not, I say that's all the effort I'll put into it, and then I'm done with it. For stories, I'll give each chapter two months, and then I'm onto the next one. That usually goes for about a year until I begin small edits and posts. But I do notice my mistakes, and I do try to fix them. I just end up ruining everything, and then have to throw it away and start from scratch (yes, that is why I do traditional).
There is no such thing as a final draft in my writing. I always find mistakes, always see how things could be said a little bit better, always find better words than the ones I'm using. It can be very hard to determine when a chapter is finished and ready to be uploaded. I tend to go over my drafts as many times as I can until all I'm fixing is minor words and sentences. Once the draft is solid and easy to read, that's when I say that its okay to publish and move on.
Such a thing is a common for an artirst. We, as the ones who create (or write) the piece itself, are able to whitness its faults very clearly. It is a double-edged sword, tho: it helps you improve on what you think you're doing bad, but it can hinder your work if you end up getting obsessed with small details. A good way of accepting that not every piece you create has to be "perfected" is to look at other artists' work. You'll see their mistakes (or simply what they don't master) as well!
I Have To Divide My Style Into Two Separate Style For Writing And Drawing Each. Writing: Time To Time, I Will Return To Edit. But If The Story Is Old Enough, I Will Just Reboot The Story With A New Updated Version. 'The Memories' Is Known As My One-Take + Some Editing Time To Time Stories. Artwork/Drawing: For Drawing, I Always Push My Artist Skills To My Limit. If It Is Really Extraordinary Hard For Me To Achieve, Then I Call It Stop. Else Then, I Will Not Stop Editing For Better.
This is kind of interesting. Back in high school, I had an awful art teacher for two years. One of those years was for an AP class that gave college credits. It was basically arts and crafts the way she taught it. Eventually enough of us complained (it was probably mostly me if I'm being completely honest) that she got fired. I stressed all summer while doing my AP art summer homework about what the new teacher would be like. I was sure the previous teacher would have bad mouthed us or something. On the first day, the new teacher complained that the previous teacher had left her nothing to go off of, so she was just going to have to try to get a feel for things as she went through the first day. She knew nothing about any of us or any of the previous things we had done in the class. Awesome. Our first assignment was to draw a piece that involved hands in some way. That's a sign of a good art teacher, in my opinion; starting off with something generally very difficult for a lot of people to draw and making that the focus of the project in order to learn how to do it. As a sort of test, I made an intentional mistake in mine to see if she would mention it in the class critique. The previous teacher had only ever said "it's good" and would leave it at that, which was so frustrating to me. CRITIQUE ME, that's the point! Not only did she mention the mistake I had made intentionally, she also pointed out something else I could have done better, which was amazing. Best art teacher I have ever had, 10/10.