The 10000 Hour Rule - Art Edition - 7626/10,000
Sickbrush - Thanks man, not a problem. I just got carried away typing that's all ;).

MrFrenik - Haha yeah, AJ is one of the guys that got me to start thinking about studying like this :). Glad it's working for you though dude. Haha, and it's not so much a work ethic, just a habit now lol. What else would I even do? ;)

Sula - Thank you :)

SpectreX - Cheers man

Raedrob - Ah, well working more's always a good thing. I've been there though, I know what you mean. Where you just look at the screen after a few hours and the study's finished, but you don't really remember doing it lol. Happens all the time. The thing that works best for me to avoid that is making notes. They don't have to be in depth by any means, but the act of writing something down, and having to actively put your thoughts into words is often enough to make the information stick (for me anyway). Personally, I use Evernote, just make a new note for each study, and tab across whenever I notice something. So if I was studying a cloak, maybe I write down "creases fall away from shoulders" or "creases make long triangular shapes". Might be worth a try? :). Oh, and apply the studies. If you go into a study knowing that you need to apply it afterwards, it forces you to concentrate, as you know you're going to have to pull it from memory shortly.

Dno if this will help, or just look like nonsense, but here's an example of some studying notes (from when I was studying king character designs last week). Super incoherent, but I think they help :)

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Oh god, rambling again (sorry)



Now, I wouldn't normally reply on here without posting any work. But I want to reply to people's comments, and it seems like a fair few people are reading that post, so I wanted to throw out a little disclaimer lol.

I don't know shit. That post is just what's working for me, right now. It could change, I might have got a lot of things wrong, I just thought it might be nice to share it.

Feel free to pull from it, and I'm happy to talk about it (the whole field of learning in general is fascinating to me) and offer advice where I can, but I just don't want to mislead anyone. I'm still learning. :)

That being said, I hope it helps someone, and if it's useful to anyone, I'm glad :D.

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RE: JakeB - 10,000 hour rule - 1.5/10,000 - by Tooth - 03-12-2012, 08:55 PM
RE: JakeB - 10,000 hour rule - 138/10,000 - by Pedro Cardoso - 06-26-2012, 12:20 PM
RE: JakeB - 10,000 hour rule - 148/10,000 - by Pedro Cardoso - 06-27-2012, 11:34 AM
RE: JakeB - 10,000 hour rule - 162/10,000 - by dontfeeddirk - 06-29-2012, 11:45 PM
RE: Jake Bullock 236/10,000 - by JakeB - 07-23-2012, 07:59 AM
RE: Jake Bullock 236/10,000 - by Jonesoda - 07-23-2012, 08:33 AM
RE: Jake Bullock 236/10,000 - by JakeB - 07-26-2012, 08:53 AM
RE: Jake Bullock 260/10,000 - by JakeB - 07-29-2012, 09:01 AM
RE: Jake Bullock 270/10,000 - by JakeB - 07-30-2012, 08:34 AM
RE: Jake Bullock 272/10,000 - by JakeB - 07-31-2012, 08:20 AM
RE: Jake Bullock 272/10,000 - by Wolkenfels - 07-31-2012, 06:57 PM
RE: Jake Bullock 272/10,000 - by DK - 08-01-2012, 11:35 AM
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RE: Jake Bullock 306/10,000 - by JakeB - 08-16-2012, 09:02 AM
RE: Jake Bullock 314/10,000 - by JakeB - 08-17-2012, 09:07 AM
RE: Jake Bullock 331/10,000 - by JakeB - 08-19-2012, 08:33 AM
RE: Jake Bullock 331/10,000 - by DK - 08-19-2012, 08:42 AM
RE: Jake Bullock 331/10,000 - by isra-ac - 08-19-2012, 08:53 PM
RE: Jake Bullock 337/10,000 - by JakeB - 08-21-2012, 08:42 AM
RE: Jake Bullock 337/10,000 - by JakeB - 08-23-2012, 08:53 AM
RE: Jake Bullock 346/10,000 - by DK - 08-23-2012, 09:03 AM
RE: Jake Bullock 346/10,000 - by rookie - 08-25-2012, 08:49 AM
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RE: Jake Bullock 346/10,000 - by Ursula Dorada - 08-26-2012, 02:56 PM
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RE: Jake Bullock 419/10,000 - by JerryActric - 09-22-2012, 03:54 PM
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RE: Jake Bullock 569/10,000 - by JakeB - 11-01-2012, 10:52 AM
RE: Jake Bullock - 10000 Hour Rule - 915/10,000 - by Supermuts - 12-17-2012, 09:38 AM
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RE: Jake Bullock - 10000 Hour Rule - 1254/10,000 - by kevin - 02-07-2013, 11:47 PM
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RE: Jake Bullock - 10000 Hour Rule - 1978/10,000 - by SpectreX - 05-20-2013, 11:57 PM
RE: Jake Bullock - 10000 Hour Rule - 1978/10,000 - by JakeB - 05-21-2013, 01:36 AM
RE: Jake Bullock - 10000 Hour Rule - 1978/10,000 - by SpectreX - 05-21-2013, 03:14 AM
RE: Jake Bullock - 10000 Hour Rule - 1986/10,000 - by SpectreX - 05-21-2013, 08:29 PM
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RE: Jake Bullock - 10000 Hour Rule - 2254/10,000 - by SpectreX - 07-08-2013, 06:53 PM
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