Skill

think back 1 year when you started to learn
think about the difference in confidence and the difference of satisfaction
youll remember all the things you didnt know before and the confidence and satisfaction you lost as you went on
now you know more
now you can think about what your self thinks about you 1 year from now
keep going.

Any artists out there

I highly recommend reading Scott Mccloud's The Sculptor.

I haven't cried and thought so hard after reading this comic, very moving.

Six panels.

 It's a different world down here, I just learned what I need to get by, I bet after all those years in the garage, you've learned some pretty valuable skills, too.

Not really... turns out, machines aren't really my forte.

Oh? Then you were practicing some other trade on the ship?

...no...

So what were you doing all day up there?

Waiting... I guess.
I knew, when the day came, I'd inherit Peacetowne. I just kind of did the bare minimum, waiting out the days until then

So you were doing nothing, waiting for the day when you could finally do nothing.

Hey, being the boss is a big responsibility!

So that's what you wanted? Responsibility?

No, I mean, not exactly.

Then what?

I don't know I just want to be GOOD at something! I'm not good at anything!
I was hoping maybe I'd be good at... THAT.

People aren't just good at things, Dee. It takes hard work.

-Diesel by Tyson Hesse

Don't learn drawing like me.

Because I really wanted to learn to draw I went completely backwards in the process of learning the figure.

I tried learning muscles and bones first, then finding out to learn the figure, then all the way back down to basic shapes. Please start in the right order. Skipping ahead did not work.

Don't reinvent the wheel

This has been the lonliest I have ever been. Right now it is a very lonely place to be.

The passion that comes with drawing makes it easy. That is because I am taking my creativity and imagination and trying to make it come to life.  Undoubtedly that is the greatest thing that can come out. That is the very goal of every artist I believe: To have their creations and dreams come to life. In that its like playing God. (Just a metaphor) Its the drive that artist have when starting out, including me. That feeling where whatever you put onto paper made you happy because you made it.

The hard part in drawing is acquiring the very skill to make your pieces. In the beginning you are happily just creating whatever you wanted regardless of skill. Then you decide you want to create more. The hard part for me was finding out in order to create what I really wanted was I had to work harder. I would find out I was not the artist I thought I was and you find out that there is a myriad of things to learn when it comes to drawing. However, unlike any other skill I had gone through, I found this skill to be absolutely needed in my life.That is because I believe this is the most important skill I will ever need; not quite anything else I have ever wanted before but because it had carried a drive and passion with it which I could barely explain.

I'll be here to admit, the hard part of drawing is something I really do not enjoy. The hard part of drawing is studying. There is so much to study and it is not that I do not care for it, but because I have not been much the studious type. When you draw you want the passion that comes with letting your creativity flow, but in studying you are grinding your craft. The sad story is this grinding is gravely needed because I know it is the grinding that will ultimately let me draw what I want. Because without the hard part, I will not enjoy the easy part.

notes

3 stages
gesture action masses structure solve all problems here =80%
figure basic form 3D mannekin
anatomy details
each stage builds from the next

Be quick. Yes and No
  7 Ls
Loosely
Lightly
LineOA tug
LineRhythm
LargeLong overall big shapes

write down things

cycle

I sigh I scream and then I laugh every time every day.
Because of how bad I want it

Everyone is crying.

They begged because they wanted time to stop.
When it didn't they cried.
They cried for themselves, then got tired.
They tired too much and thought,
"We don't want to tire anymore. It hurts.
We can end the hurt if we want to. Why don't we just end the hurt and leave?"
One spoke up, "Let's try crying for something else because that is another option that is left to explore."
So they went and stopped crying for themselves and they saw others.
They observed and found out... they were crying for themselves too.
They cried for those crying for themselves, and it hurt.
However, it hurt differently. It was more intense and it was the worst thing they could cry for.

"We cried before because we didn't know what we wanted.
But now we cry and hurt even more because we know exactly what we need."
"The only way to stop crying is to make everyone stop crying at the same time."

Thank you very much.