07-15-2014, 06:09 PM
You have a nice sketchbook with a lot of great studies! Totally dig those clean lines in your sketches, and I really admire the effort you are putting in your studies and improvement.
Some posts above you wrote that you are overwhelmed with the amount you still need to learn. I totally feel the same all the time! I'm also working on solutions about that. What Lyraina said is already a very good approach, to focus a bit on the areas that are most important to you. I also tend to study certain books on the topic, so 3 or 4 days of the week I try to put "my current book" into focus.
Also, what really consoles me - although it may sound strange - that I will never ever be finished learning. Even when I get past the stuff I I need to learn now and master it, new things to study will appear. I think this consoles me because I always thought if I master this and that and stuff it will be good, but in the end there's no end to learning. So I just see it as the life long journey and process. Maybe this somehow takes away a bit of the pressure of needing to know everything, because yeah, you can't know _everything_ in the end. Important thing is that you give the thing you do this very moment the very best.
I don't know if this helps you because as I'm writing it it really sounds awkward lol; I also think it comes a lot from my viewpoint as a (former) perfectionist, so sorry if I'm spamming your thread with strange drivel.
Anyway, keep it up! I'm totally curious what you'll come up with (:
Some posts above you wrote that you are overwhelmed with the amount you still need to learn. I totally feel the same all the time! I'm also working on solutions about that. What Lyraina said is already a very good approach, to focus a bit on the areas that are most important to you. I also tend to study certain books on the topic, so 3 or 4 days of the week I try to put "my current book" into focus.
Also, what really consoles me - although it may sound strange - that I will never ever be finished learning. Even when I get past the stuff I I need to learn now and master it, new things to study will appear. I think this consoles me because I always thought if I master this and that and stuff it will be good, but in the end there's no end to learning. So I just see it as the life long journey and process. Maybe this somehow takes away a bit of the pressure of needing to know everything, because yeah, you can't know _everything_ in the end. Important thing is that you give the thing you do this very moment the very best.
I don't know if this helps you because as I'm writing it it really sounds awkward lol; I also think it comes a lot from my viewpoint as a (former) perfectionist, so sorry if I'm spamming your thread with strange drivel.
Anyway, keep it up! I'm totally curious what you'll come up with (: