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its not a run its a walk

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Art is a lot more about learning how your brain works

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When you're climbing there's a  lot of falling.

I'm 25; what do I need sleep for?

was bummed out

i actually literally forgot why i wanted to draw

then i remembered and stuff

its important to know your goal

To my stupid self...

you're frustrated, here's tips that you always think about but never do

USE REFERENCE

why is Kizuki's art so godlike? He probably used reference, guaranteed.

USE REFERENCE

remember THAT ONE picture you did? it was pretty damn good for your first time
oh yeah you used reference.

USE REFERENCE

how did you learn to draw your awesome breasts today? oh yeah reference

Important

About art...
this made more sense in my head...
the way to approach the days and success

lately i have been focusing to much on my goals,
but theyre so far away
frustration comes quickly because ill work hard everyday and then reflect how it reflects my endgoal

but that is a mistake
at this stage theres no way ill be close to the result i want or need
theres no way ill have the consistency i want from what i just learned

i believe the way to approach it is have your daily goals
not only that, but you have to approach your goals very specifically
for example, youre learning to draw a jacket and youve never drawn a jacket before
youll spend today learning how to draw jackets
then at the end of the day, you meet your goal
you drew jackets? you drew jackets
what did you learn? who knows, you drew jackets
are they good or bad? who knows, you drew jackets
its this type of approach that makes you coming back, instead of random spurts of 'motivation'  or 'inspiration'
but at the same time you wont lose vision of your long term goals?
why?
because this is a natural process your brain goes through
naturally you will learn from your mistakes, youll learn functions of how things work, how things should look like, because you did it, you drew it.
the only way to build your visual library is to do, and in turn your brain will learn no matter what
just like how you learned to drive, how you learned to use a computer, you just do and now youre an expert.

you wont lose sight of your goals because naturally your goals will meet there.
all these short term goals become really good feeling and before you know it you will learn so much.

You will get those times...

sitting at your desk
what do i draw now?
what do i study now?
what should i be doing?
its easy to get lost in your journey because of so many things you need to learn and youl find out you dont know what you need to learn




draw what you want to end up drawing

if you want to draw comics draw comics
if you want to draw illustrations draw illustrations

in drawing where you want to be you'll find all the things you need to learn

tl:dr
obvious shit that becomes less obvious when youre in deep

Airplanes - B.o.B ft. Eminem & Hayley Williams (of Paramore) [Lyrics]

Setting out to sea

You are the captain of your ship.
you;re at a coast and you wanna get to an island and its very distant
in the beginning to set off on this journey
you're on your boat by youserlf and set off and head west
in the beginning youre going away from the shore and you can still see the shore
but youre moving away and its getting smaller and youre sure youre making progress

eventually youll be so far away from where you were you cant even see it anymore
thats the beginning

then youre in the middle of the ocean and itll take awhile
behind you you see ocean and in front of you you see ocean
and all around you you see ocean
day after day youll see ocean
you start to feel like
"am i making progress? am i still going west?"
you start to doubt yourself and its scary

what you do is you just keep heading west
trust yourself and say "i KNOW i'm heading west"

eventually youre gonna see the shoreline of your destination
and youll finally make it to your destination

then find the next island

Road to being an artist

There's a lot of information you need to learn.
More importantly, because there is a lot of information, it's important to remember it all.
Pretty basic to say.

The amount of discipline to keep a working schedule is immense. More so that I do not have school to keep nagging me on working. Self discipline and a strict regime is key to becoming successful here.

My social life is kaput basically. My life is revolving around drawing and my partner at the moment.
I want this pretty bad. Its all hard work and all the hard work will eventually pay off.
A lot of the times its very difficult to keep concentration and perseverance. The main reason is the repetition of it all. You get a lot of confidence and that confidence is a double edged sword. You start to think you have your technique to a T, but in reality, more work is needed.

Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong.

Cut all distractions. Have fun when you need to have fun. Otherwise, 0 distractions.

I currently have a lot of goals in my mind.

Stephen Rogers Peck important words stuff

"the beginner should perhaps set out to learn everything he can. Whatever seems in -their- experience to be useless debris will be dropped soon enough by the wayside.... Anatomy is complex. Its very complexities are fascinating but they are likely to lead the way to unreasonable evaluations. The student should not assume that it is necessary to be correct at all costs in these matters of bones and muscle. In one sense, a human body is the sum of its parts. But this premise can both help and hinder. It can hinder when we attend to the parts and ignore the sum. It is true the student must work at first to be correct, but they should never forget that there is little virtue in sheer correctness..... THey will want to gain, in their own right, such command of human forms and contours that their creation will become identified not with their anatomy charts, but with them." -Stephen Rogers Peck, Atlas of the Human Anatomy for the Artist

Stay healthy.

No matter what your dream is your health is your number one priority.
You can't dream if you're dead.

Be healthy. Do healthy things

that said, you're not allowed to have more than a half a cup of coffee no matter what.