Do You Make Art As An Adult?

Sometimes I feel surreptitiously motivated to produce art.

I often class art as one of my SI's, but I mostly only appreciate art.
Historically, I've felt demotivated about making things in general likely because I feel like there being a social reward to doing so is in some way required in order for me to be productive in this way.
I frequently fantasize about having had a clos-knit art friends while growing up so we would show each other our OC's, collaborate on some sort of shared world, talk about narratives, etc.
Lurking on DeviantArt, YT, Twitter, etc. helps me vicariously live that fantasy by assuming the artists posting stuff there have lives of that kind.

Aside from the lack of a social component to the creative process, the idea of being a unemployed, not college-educated, friendless, likely futureless adult causes me to feel like I'm wasting my time whenever I try creating art.
Do you feel somehow like that too, or can relate to anything in my exposition?

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  • An interesting post.

    What is art?  I'm a photographer and I sometimes wonder whether any of my work could be called 'art'.

    What is the purpose of art?  You say that you could be wasting your time, but then does there have to be a destination, or can it just be the 'journey'.

    I suspect that for most of us the creative process is therapeutic in itself even if your work isn't purchased, seen or appreciated by others (but that makes it more worthwhile).

    There are lots of creative people on this forum (artists?) and here is the second thread I created for them.

    The original had tons of posts but was sadly deleted:

     RE: The new Forum Creative Space 

    the idea of being a unemployed, not college-educated, friendless, likely futureless adult causes me to feel like I'm wasting my time whenever I try creating art

    Van Gogh?

  • What is art?

    It is not clear to me what kind of "is" you're employing here.
    If it's an is of definition, then just undergird the term "art" with your preferred definition.
    My illocutionary in this post wasn't supposed to be especially assertoric.

    What is the purpose of art?

    I don't have a view on that.

    You say that you could be wasting your time, but then does there have to be a destination, or can it just be the 'journey'.

    I said I'm caused to feel like I'm wasting my time.

    On a somewhat related note: I think I've chanced my way into finding value in art in a way probably analogous to what you're talking about.
    However, for me it's not about the journey in general, but a specific aspect of it -- one that involves creating fictional people so I can vicariously socialize and experience new things or etc.

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  • What is art?

    It is not clear to me what kind of "is" you're employing here.
    If it's an is of definition, then just undergird the term "art" with your preferred definition.
    My illocutionary in this post wasn't supposed to be especially assertoric.

    What is the purpose of art?

    I don't have a view on that.

    You say that you could be wasting your time, but then does there have to be a destination, or can it just be the 'journey'.

    I said I'm caused to feel like I'm wasting my time.

    On a somewhat related note: I think I've chanced my way into finding value in art in a way probably analogous to what you're talking about.
    However, for me it's not about the journey in general, but a specific aspect of it -- one that involves creating fictional people so I can vicariously socialize and experience new things or etc.

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