11-18-2020, 08:19 AM
Ok
1. You're wrong. Simple and plain. "repetitive" work as you frame it, is actually the hard work it takes to keep practicing the most basic skills that provide the Most return for the effort. This is why you have seen such slow improvement. You label drawing fundamentals as boring or repetitive and then use that as an excuse to not do what is necessary. The people in your sb who tell you how much you've improved are well meaning but not helpful. Your progress is slower than average by quite a bit at this point. All I can say is, you are reaping the slow rewards in your skill that is deserved by such avoidance of basic truth of learning representational art of any kind. You also use the claim of being into "design" as yet another crutch to avoid the reality. You have to be able to draw and paint to a high level in the industry if you want to be able to sell your designs, there is no avoiding it. You will never get a job as a concept designer if you can't produce high quality renderings.
2. You keep mentioning this meme of being scared to not be in a "comfort zone". I blame Anthony Jones's "don't copy" how to study video, for this terrible beginner's misunderstood crutch to not do any in depth observational study. My analysis of your sketchbook, since you stopped working on any proper fundamentals, is that you are actually heavily embedded like a tick deep into that very comfort zone that you wanted to avoid. All our attempts at digging you out has proven very difficult. It's up to you to face reality or not. Andrew has given you a very pragmatic and useful long term framing for something to aim for, but the fundamental practice and application and yes "repetition" that this will require is what I and the others are talking about. You can avoid this all you like, but it looks like if you don't start the actually hard work and reframing in your mind for that work to become also a passion for learning what is necessary, I can pretty much see you being at barely entry industry level in at least another 5 to 10 years and by that point the entire industry will have changed and moved on as well. I'm not trying to scare you. I'm serious. It could be much less if you accept what basically all of us have said
1. You're wrong. Simple and plain. "repetitive" work as you frame it, is actually the hard work it takes to keep practicing the most basic skills that provide the Most return for the effort. This is why you have seen such slow improvement. You label drawing fundamentals as boring or repetitive and then use that as an excuse to not do what is necessary. The people in your sb who tell you how much you've improved are well meaning but not helpful. Your progress is slower than average by quite a bit at this point. All I can say is, you are reaping the slow rewards in your skill that is deserved by such avoidance of basic truth of learning representational art of any kind. You also use the claim of being into "design" as yet another crutch to avoid the reality. You have to be able to draw and paint to a high level in the industry if you want to be able to sell your designs, there is no avoiding it. You will never get a job as a concept designer if you can't produce high quality renderings.
2. You keep mentioning this meme of being scared to not be in a "comfort zone". I blame Anthony Jones's "don't copy" how to study video, for this terrible beginner's misunderstood crutch to not do any in depth observational study. My analysis of your sketchbook, since you stopped working on any proper fundamentals, is that you are actually heavily embedded like a tick deep into that very comfort zone that you wanted to avoid. All our attempts at digging you out has proven very difficult. It's up to you to face reality or not. Andrew has given you a very pragmatic and useful long term framing for something to aim for, but the fundamental practice and application and yes "repetition" that this will require is what I and the others are talking about. You can avoid this all you like, but it looks like if you don't start the actually hard work and reframing in your mind for that work to become also a passion for learning what is necessary, I can pretty much see you being at barely entry industry level in at least another 5 to 10 years and by that point the entire industry will have changed and moved on as well. I'm not trying to scare you. I'm serious. It could be much less if you accept what basically all of us have said