For self taught artists feeling stuck
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- The most difficult thing when you learn art on your own isn't to study: it's to realize what you are missing and what you should study. In this video I share some thoughts about the learning process and how it works in art learning.
✥ Materials ✥
Graphite pencils (Faber Castell)
╰ I used powdered graphite from sanded pencils lead of matte graphite pencils by Faber Castell for the background
╰ All the elements are rendered using regular graphite
╰ I applied powdered graphite using a makeup cotton pad
A3 Clairefontaine Paint On Mixed Media Paper
If I forgot anything, just ask in the comments 😉
✥ Music ✥
All Around Us - Amaranth Cove
Everything Will Fade - Ave Air
Give Me Air - Cerulean Skies
Paper Thin Reality - Ave Air
✥ Find me ✥
Instagram: / juliemiette.art
Website: www.juliemiett...
I find that conscious incompetence is the hardest to deal with because I know what the problem is, but it's like no matter how much you try to see, observe, and correct, it's like my brain automatically keeps wiring itself to continue making the same mistake no matter how much I try to fix it. it's one of the reasons why i've started to hate academic drawing and have started leaning more towards preferring anime (which isn't easy either) but at least for the time being i'm making progress there and don't feel like throwing my drawing board across the room, it's a struggle to deal with.
I think wanting to throw our drawing board across the room is not a good place to be in 😂 some things take time to click, sometimes I remember a rule or an advice years after I heard it and I finally get it - once it's in, it's not something you can unlearn anymore. I hope you can find the approach that works for you so you don't have to battle so much with your brain 😊
@@Julie.Miette Thanks. I think apart of my problem is impatient, what I mean is that I expect myself to be more further along then where I am after fives years, I've learned and studied some drafting techniques like the Reilly head abstraction and figure method and can turn out simple studies and some more intermediate stuff well enough, but as soon as I start a project that I'm passionate about I practically fumble over everything.
Erasing incorrect facial features over and over until the paper wears down, being happy with my lay in at first only to find out 5 hrs later that my head is too big or wide, my figure build is scrunched or doesn't have the necessary foreshortening to it making everything stack down the page like a snow man, wrong gesture, not being able to draw a small face correctly.
It can be very discouraging when you want to go professional but I've recently started trying to take on the mindset that this is all apart of the process of learning, I also think that my biggest problem is my 9 to 5 style of practice, I like to practice everyday, I barely take breaks and have even neglected proper sleep for drawing, but I've been realizing that more hrs doesn't really equate to improvement even if you study a lot of methods and it may actually make you worse. I'm trying to follow the advice of AdamLucidPixelDuff about listening to your body and taking more breaks and mental/psychical care, I also love and adore art books so looking at them and pretending that I'm at a museum helps a lot with that.
I'm sure most of us learning art are impatient, we have goals so inspiring that it's hard not to be there yet - it can be a strong motivation, but not if we end up hating everything we do because (which I'm guilty of).
It's a very intense practice! It's rare for me to draw more than 3 hours a day, as much as I'd like to practice more, it's not even a lack of time but a lack of endurance. You don't learn if you can't put your best self at a task, all you'll end up doing is making mistakes you could avoid because you're just tired, and getting in a negative frustration feedback loop... I think we saw the same video from Adam, it was full of good advice 😊
Take care!
@@Ransome1690I’ve had a similar experience. I’ve spent the last 8 years working every day, for as long as possible, on improving at drawing. At the start I was barely beyond stick figure level, and my abilities barely improved over I’d say 4-5 years. And this was with constantly studying tutorials, practicing different styles and techniques etc etc. But then over the course of a year or two everything just started to gel, like it’d all been simmering in my head for those years lol and then started to come together, to the point where I’m really happy with where I am now
I think another important aspect is your environment that you’re working in, physically and mentally. Over the years I’ve been improving other areas of my life, improving my mental health along with it and it all seems to feed into your art. It improves your confidence and self esteem, which then allows you to be a little braver with your drawings, which in turn gives you even more self confidence and it just builds and builds, until you find your quick sketches are better than the full week-long projects you were doing just a few years earlier
Edit: whoops, I wrote this before watching the video. I basically badly described what the videos about lmao, my bad. But yeah it’s so true. You just have to have the belief that you will eventually reach that level of conscious competence
btw i loveee your hair
Thank you 😄
It's messy at the moment, I'm growing out a pixie cut like a wildling 😂
Very fascinating vlog to watch and much truth in it! Your perception and ability to translate these processes into words is detailed, logical and easy to understand. A lovely drawing too - wonderful textures and light/shadow transitions. The pencil extender gives great control during the drawing session. What brand is it?
Thank you so much! I don't know if it gives control, but it mostly extends my range and I enjoy working with it. It doesn't have a brand, it comes from a cheap Amazon set. Derwent sells some in metal but I don't like the surface texture 🙂
Very nice skull
Thank you 😊
i'm thinking about getting online art classes on 2024, do you think that it's gonna help or not?
It's hard for me to tell not knowing where you're at and what classes you want to take. I think studying the fundamentals is always worth it, especially when you never did! Do you know what are your weaker areas for the kind of art you want to make, what you need to study specifically?
For me New Masters Academy has been great to study (and I didn't consider myself a beginner when I enrolled, but still started from the beginning of the course track), I highly recommend it, you can try it for a month and see what you think of it for yourself 😊