I’ve heard a lot of these concepts of how to learn and applying it to studying art. It was nice to listen to it all again and remind myself it’s okay to make bad work. It’s natural, you’re learning to get good, it won’t be good from the beginning. It’s all about mileage, the only way to get better is to draw and draw all the time, and once you’ve gotten good at doing one thing, move on and challenge yourself out of that comfort zone and do more bad drawings again.
Supposedly it takes 10,000 hours to get good at something. That’s a lot of hours. I think I calculated that if I wanted to reach 10,000 hours by June 2013 I needed to draw/paint everyday for about 16 or 17 hours a day. Or for every good drawing you’ve done, it’ll take another 50 bad drawings before you’ll have another good one. Basically what I take from these ideas is that there’s no such thing as raw talent that makes a great artist, it’s all about persistence and dedication. You can teach “talent” but you can’t teach drive. You have to really want it, and if you really want it then it’s easier to push yourself harder, sacrifice sleep and other distractions to get to where you want to be.
For me right now, I need to get over the fear of doing a bad drawing/painting, and just do it, because I won’t get any better if I don’t even try and get all those bad drawings out of the way.
growth mindset
(Source: artofjustin)
