Help me learn to be an awesome artist

[James]

Eh, Helm, in that aspect, it's nearly impossible to try and explain it, in my opinion. It ends up boiling down to what I like, and what I want to be able to do. There's art, and there's really bad art. I don't think there's any unyielding concepts or rules to creating AWESOME art, so it doesn't even make sense to disect one's works to the core basics and determine what logically makes the piece appeal to me on a structural level.

Maybe I'm really just unable to understand what you're trying to say. Yes, once I understand the key elements of art, my work will get better. Except it doesn't. Yes, I should draw using real-life objects to help me understand how to use those elements. Except I have.

I may sound like a spoiled brat here, but I don't really want to spend another 10 years drawing hands and tissue boxes as I try to understand how to draw dynamic action images entirely from my imagination. IF that ever even happens.

My problem is I feel like my own skills will never match my understanding of the work, or what I want to do with that understanding.