PsychoRouge

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Forcing yourself to sit the fuck down and draw the same stupid fucking stack of books over and over and over again until you understand how the shapes fit together. Hours of perspective with rulers and lines until you literally train yourself to automatically recognize when something looks wrong. Redrawing that fucking skeleton hand until you can do it, and then you add muscle and then you add skin and then you cry because all you’ve done for a fucking week is draw a HAND

You don’t get better at art just by going at it blindly, the people who do art professionally, who have gone to art school and can pull something out of their ass, or have done the equipment to art school in personal studies have literally devoted themselves to their craft the same way a doctor devotes himself to learning medicine

If you want that level of skill you have force yourself through the boring basics, not all at once, but little by little. And once you’ve reached somewhere that you’re happy with your art you do it all over again with a new study and you hate every step of learning but then you get to draw whatever you want and it pays off in the long run

Practice drawing is infantilizing your potential when you can challenge yourself into trying new shit until you “feel good” about your progress. Challenging yourself into drawing better is way better to put it. Also there’s importance in critique and openness to criticism, that’s where you’ll learn, but you gotta ask the right people for it (your trusty friend circle for starters maybe? Or an art teacher if you know someone).

This also made me realize you don’t have to draw frequently (I did this for the past 13 years and now I retired from burnout /nav). This is why we draw to express, to document, and to archive. Figure artists, draw what you see. For abstract artists, draw what you feel! Don’t you dare fucking lift the pencil up until you’re satisfied. Mistakes are merely unexpected opportunities and redirections. Yep! I’m giving you a challenge to draw something without using an eraser :D

Also time is irrelevant here, it’s a hard reality kicker to me when my senior colleagues around their 40’s just started on art last year and now showing up at exhibitions. And I’m 22 and stuck in art school and retired from professional work just this January QwQ. Regardless, it’s important to take breaks but don’t stop. Cuz drawing your precious moments is much more poetic than taking pictures

I get the same advice too:

“just practice”,

“love what you do”,

FUCK THEM!!! They’re partially right but we need actual artistic critique who can pinpoint the smallest corrections and observations. But that critic will mostly be you.

I made this this morning I- can't believe I almost forgot to post this here