04-06-2017, 01:26 PM
I was worried you'd take it in this way. There's nothing wrong with "starting over", you don't suddenly lose all your skills and the visual library/muscle memory you've constructed through all these years.
It isn't something to be afraid or ashamed about. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it. A lot of people never improve because they're too stubborn to accept that they made a mistake and didn't put time in fundamentals. It's fine. Do whatever it takes to get better.
And your guitar anecdote is perfect. You're just impressing people who don't know how to play the guitar, anyone remotely knowledgeable will tell that you're just faking it. It's superficial. Useless.
You need to spend time on your line control. They're very wobbly right now. You need to practice ghosting over the lines and thinking about drawing a straight line between two points before drawing it. Trust me, it'll take some time but you'll get it. Keep doing it, trust the process. Don't worry about results right now and take it slow. Focus on making clean lines. make 2 dots on a page and ghost over them a few times, visualize and make a quick line in a single sweep. (Your current lines look good, for a beginner, but you need to practice more.) Remember that being able to draw clean, straight lines is essential. You can't draw beautiful lines with a chipped and curved ruler. Make your ruler straight. Keep practicing, you'll develop the muscle memory in NO time, and drawing clean lines will be effortless.
Another exercise that needs work is the cone thing with ellipses in the middle. You need to visualize how the circle turns. Just get like a circular object, say a coin or a CD and hold it in front of you as far as you can with your left hand. Now look at it from your eye level. It should look like a straight line. Now slowly raise your hand and see how it turns in space and how it forms the ellipse. Keep raising it and see how the ellipse "opens" up. do the same for the other direction. MAKE NOTES, observe these tiny things and redo the exercise again. but this time visualize it in your head. Don't just do, think and do! NEVER stop thinking about what you're doing. I cannot stress this enough. Don't be a zombie when drawing, it's useless.
Good shit man, keep going. It'll take NO time and you'll get good real fast. Keep pushin'
It isn't something to be afraid or ashamed about. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it. A lot of people never improve because they're too stubborn to accept that they made a mistake and didn't put time in fundamentals. It's fine. Do whatever it takes to get better.
And your guitar anecdote is perfect. You're just impressing people who don't know how to play the guitar, anyone remotely knowledgeable will tell that you're just faking it. It's superficial. Useless.
You need to spend time on your line control. They're very wobbly right now. You need to practice ghosting over the lines and thinking about drawing a straight line between two points before drawing it. Trust me, it'll take some time but you'll get it. Keep doing it, trust the process. Don't worry about results right now and take it slow. Focus on making clean lines. make 2 dots on a page and ghost over them a few times, visualize and make a quick line in a single sweep. (Your current lines look good, for a beginner, but you need to practice more.) Remember that being able to draw clean, straight lines is essential. You can't draw beautiful lines with a chipped and curved ruler. Make your ruler straight. Keep practicing, you'll develop the muscle memory in NO time, and drawing clean lines will be effortless.
Another exercise that needs work is the cone thing with ellipses in the middle. You need to visualize how the circle turns. Just get like a circular object, say a coin or a CD and hold it in front of you as far as you can with your left hand. Now look at it from your eye level. It should look like a straight line. Now slowly raise your hand and see how it turns in space and how it forms the ellipse. Keep raising it and see how the ellipse "opens" up. do the same for the other direction. MAKE NOTES, observe these tiny things and redo the exercise again. but this time visualize it in your head. Don't just do, think and do! NEVER stop thinking about what you're doing. I cannot stress this enough. Don't be a zombie when drawing, it's useless.
Good shit man, keep going. It'll take NO time and you'll get good real fast. Keep pushin'