one_two's sketchbook

[wld.89]

I agree with you in the fact that going for art with the wrong mindset can lead to real mental ( and sometimes physical ) damages. I think that improvment is a natural desire among human beings and it's something that we should nurture to make us better. We have this crazy scene in our head that we want to put on paper or canvas, and it's gonna require tons of practice to reach that level, but the journey is also interesting, you're learning tons of different things, you view the world differently, tastes are changing overtime, i think it's a pretty interesting journey we are embarqing on, as long as we are willing to push past the first miles of uncertainty and doubt ! I think peoples get burnouts and such because they put the industry standards before the art standard, if it means something. For example, before learning to paint fast, you need to learn to paint well ! once you know how to paint things really well, then you can think more about brush economy and how to optimize things, and it's really not a problem ! But most people would take it backward ! they would learn to paint fast to match industry standards, but at the same time they don't know how to paint really well, so they'd put extra hours to catch up with that ! painting fast isn't about making fast strokes, but about thinking fast and making the less mistakes possible in the early stages, it takes years of practice to build that second nature and most people would just take illusory shortcuts that leads to bad stuff in the end ! But at the same time, i think growth is an important part of every human being, not only artists ^^ i'd love to see more gesture drawings from you, it could really benefit your art in helping you make characters with more natural poses ! it'd be a good thing i guess ^^ Keep it up !