this thing i doso..( btw im not that illiterate, i DO know sentences begin with a capital letter, but im just lazy so bare with me!) .... i guess its best to get some misconceptions out of the way , i believe others have stated them at any given time before too.
misconception number 1- talent, got none had none, in my book its just an extuse for lazyness and the human inefficiency in actually going thru with an idea, what do i mean by it.... well ur beginn ing to nurture this interest in art, and its all nice, and at a certain moment, you kinda like your stuff, but then you go and see that there are people with monstrous skills... what do you do
whoa - in a keanu reeves way and kick asses like neo?
rare people do that, thoe are the people that suceed, the ones that persevere in their efforts,
unfortunately most people do this:
weel that artist is talented im not...and theres a lovely excuse to give up. seen it happen on a great number of occasions
misconception number 2 learning
so you think a college will teach you to do art, or a school or a teacher or tutorials.... aaah yes tutorials i find these to be a cancer to an undeveloped mind
how so? well here is an example, somebody sees an anime.... simple drawing so that someone begins telling him/ her self that thats the direction they wanna gp ( im not a manga anime hater , far from it, i read m angas like a maniac) this situation could also have been ordinary comics or and other " style" driven stuff
so that person, without andy definite knowledge of anatomy starts working on their manga styleafter a while parts of it become relatively good looking, but the lack of anatomical knowledge kicks in and from that itr becomes noticeable, hiding the tough parts, weird stiffness , the works, as i said same applies to any field
now that person sees some cool effects on some skilled persons work and wants a tutorial for those to apply on their poor based work, and that just looks like putting a gold rooftiles on a crickety shack it doesnt work
here is the bitter truts about learning, it is hard if it wasnt everyone would know everything, it takes time for the brain to recognise the subtle laws of form, light shadow colors and lines , so if you havent covered your basics dont delude yourself, fancytexturing, or shines or reflections wont help cover it, instead it makes the lack of knowledhe all the more obvious
at this point i can imagine people saying ok mr wiseguy, then gow do we learn,..... by watching, doodling from life, from photos, whatever works for you, we live in the time of the internet and informations are more available than ever in the history of mankind, use the resources, cause lets face it whatever u see can be drawn
misconception 3 i draw here and there but i want to be a pro
no.... you dont
you either do it all the way or quit bugging people for attention
its simple, dreams take perseverence, to advance you need to work, ALOT!!!!
personally my schedule has been 6 to 10 hours a day for ten years now
but you have to understant, i wanted to make something of myself by doing what i truly love
so what you really have to ask yourself is do i really want to do this, is this my dream
i had a simple one, ... to be the best, its an incredibla tough dream but if it wasnt it wouldnt be fun and exciting
im 26 years old going 27 i started this stuff in high school
and ill stop when im dead
here is a little incentive for you, get a job, a really lousy one, get a feel of the real life, i did, and didnt like it, that draw, and whenever you get all whiney about how its tough.....remember that job
just a little note for the end of the first journal, .... experiment, trying stuff out on photoshop, pain ter, or whatever your prefered weapon of chaoice may be wont make it explode, and it just might make you discover some things on your own, made me discover quite a few nifty tricks
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The best piece of advice for artists I've EVER read. WELL SAID!
I'm motivated to work harder after reading this journal so thank you very much.
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I like to know how long it usually takes an artist to draw a picture to roughly base how fast they work on a picture with it turning out as good as it does. A lot of your images look amazing from far away but when you get up close, the colors are splotchy and lines are all over the place, which gives me a sense that it takes you a while to do them, just not as long as one might think. For me personally, i hate coloring, its the bane of my art existance, simply b/c it takes so long to do...i think you are wrong about the tutorials in the sense that its cancerous to an undeveloped mind...without tutorials, someone looking a program like photoshop is overwhelmed at all the windows and options and layer and channels, etc. I think tutorials help simplify the basics so a person can feel good about jumping into the programs they really want to learn. I think we've all been in a position where we've been stuck on something and someone else has come along and has been like, "oh well, let me show you something" and its opened your mind to greater possibilities simply by learning a simple step.
I agree with you that college will not make an artist and i think a lot of art schools are open today b/c of this misconception, but, college courses are meant to open the doors to creativity and to create a demand for work and practice. I'm 23 and i've been out of school for about 2 years now, and i'm dying to get back into it...not only to learn more things but to help get my mind back in focus of what needs to be learned.
I think professionals who have been out in the field of art for a while now, who have been published, thrown under deadlines, and have been through hell should remember where they come from and realize that there are people starting out that need to know, just like them, whats to come. I've spent countless hours just staring at a blank sheet of paper with no idea of what to draw, or stared at a photo and can't get what i see on paper...not to say i'm not a good artist, but we all have our moments.
A lot of people look up to people like you, especially those who haven't made it and comments like "this is wrong and what you're doing is wrong" really makes people feel bad and lose the drive to draw...we all learn differently and i think, professionally and as an artist, you should try to help people improve.
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Hard work allways precedes talent...
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For no reason!
I've been able to spend most of my working career doing something I enjoy (for the most part), but I know whats it's like to do manual and shop floor work too. There's no comparison, both in job satisfaction and income. The trouble is, a lot of folks who could be doing something 'worthwhile' miss out because they don't put the effort in at the right time. By the time they do realise it's often too late (though one could say it's never too late to push).
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Talent will only take you as far, you need to develop it with a little skill that’s why I agree with going to college to get some sort of background. But I agree completely with you when you said “tutorials I find these to be a cancer to an undeveloped mind.” I never learned not a single thing from any of the tutorials, and most of them you can go out and pick up a book and find the same thing without spending a fortune on student loans. But the places I learned the most from are friends that I met during those years. And I’m still learning new things.
Where as dreams… well as my grand mother used to say take a dream in one hand and shit in the other put them together and what do you get?
Any way you have amazing stuff man, I’m amazed by everything you produce.
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