E25: Revitalize Your Art Progress! (The Annual Artistic Review)
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- Опубліковано 29 гру 2023
- This is The Twenty Fifth Episode of the Visual Scholar Podcast - With Tim Mcburnie.
Let's review our progress this year! Hitting the reset button on the year is a great way to check how things have been going and make sure that if you do create any new plans for the next year or next cycle... that you have a strong foundation. It's vital to know what went well and what didn't so we can do more of the good stuff... and less of the unhelpful stuff.
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In this episode of the Visual Scholar Podcast, I discuss a simple yet effective framework for setting and achieving artistic goals. This framework comprises three essential components:
1. Defining Goals and Destination: The first step involves identifying where you want to go with your art. This process includes creating an influence map or collection of images that align with your artistic aspirations. It's about understanding your major artistic influences and setting a clear destination for your artistic journey.
2. Vector and Direction Towards Goals: The second part of the process is about understanding the direction you're heading in relation to your goals. It’s crucial to assess whether your current artistic practice is moving you closer to or further away from your desired destination. This involves a careful examination of your current work and progress, ensuring alignment with your long-term goals.
3. Speed and Productivity: The final component focuses on the pace at which you are moving towards your goals. It's about being honest with yourself regarding your productivity and the effort you're putting into your art. This part involves reflecting on your artistic output over the past year and assessing whether it aligns with your expectations and aspirations.
By defining clear goals, ensuring you're moving in the right direction, and assessing your productivity.
I also discuss the following concepts:
Visual Learning: Emphasizing visual learning is a key aspect of artistic development. It's essential to understand that looking at images is work. This process of assessing and understanding the visual nature of different works contributes significantly to artistic growth. As artists, visual literacy is fundamental. This means being able to see new possibilities and styles through the act of viewing and analyzing different images. The act of observing and interpreting images is a critical component of learning and developing as an artist.
Importance of Influence Maps: Recognizing the importance of influence maps is crucial in shaping your artistic journey. These maps, collections of images that resonate with your artistic goals, help in defining and guiding your artistic direction. By mapping out influences, artists gain a clear vision of their aspirations and inspirations.
Keep Doing What Worked: It is crucial to continue practices that have previously led to success. Frequently, the path to artistic improvement is paved with consistently applying methods and techniques that have proven effective in the past.
Tracking Learning: The learning process in art is multifaceted and significant. Recognizing the new concepts and techniques acquired is crucial, as they cumulatively contribute to artistic growth. Every new skill learned is a step forward in the artistic journey. The progress in learning these skills may not be immediately visible in the artwork but is critical in the overall artistic development.
The Power of a Plan. Planning is pivotal in the artistic process. A well-crafted plan, aligned with your artistic goals, not only enhances productivity but also ensures that every step taken is in harmony with your ultimate artistic aspirations.
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This Podcast is designed to help you demystify the world of Art, Productivity, and Creativity. So you can get better faster, and enjoy your Art Journey. We discuss Drawing, Painting, Illustration and Entertainment Design. Along with Productivity and Career Advice.
The Visual Scholar Podcast is designed to help you demystify the world of Art, Productivity, and Creativity. So you can get better faster, and enjoy your Art Journey.
We discuss Drawing, Painting, Illustration and Entertainment Design. Along with Productivity and Career Advice.
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What's the number one thing you want to do with your art in 2024?
Finish the last two drawings I started in 2023 :D
I want to be more creative in art making.
I know there is an infinite number of technical aspects of drawing and painting that I still can and want to learn, but I've been convinced by another UA-camr art teacher (Steven Zapata) that there will never be a point where you say "now I know enough and I'm ready to start creating my own stuff.
So the idea is to find a way of getting out of the only art exercises to producing my own art. The problem is that I have been on the studying route for so long that I don't even remember what I wanted to create in the first place. 😅 So trying to reconnect with that side of me is something I'd like to focus on this year, keeping some technical learning on the side, of course, but double down on the "trying to be creative" side of things.
just do anything, even if only 15 min a day.
This is a fantastic channel. Hope 2024 is the year of its subs take off!
Very insightful. Thanks.
Thanks Tim for this one. A lot of interesting artistic productivity stakes are addressed in this video. I am struggling with a comic project since eight years now and I almost did nothing in 2023 for this project in particular but I have been writing and drawing two short comic stories for zines and I learned quite a lot doing that. Thanks to you and looking back at my previous art years I can reset my art goals and set my art map. I've never done this before, I'll give it a try. It's the second time I look at the video and it might happen that I will see it a few more times after that to really embrace all the knowledge in there. I wish you all the best for 2024.
in 2024 I want to get better at lighting. Not to say that I've mastered all other aspects of creating art. Far from it. My theory is that if I can improve my lighting then even my mistakes will look good or at the very least be dynamically lit. Of course lighting bleeds right into color theory. I'm still wrapping my head around how warm and cool grays work. Beyond understanding how light and color work I'm also working out doing quick light and color studies. My hope is that this will allow me to be faster when iterating on design for a concept or illustration. Thank you for all the valuable videos in 2023! I'm looking forward to many more in 2024.
hammer on more fundamental practice!
I don’t know what it is about art often times I find that drawing is about observation and seeing properly of course you still need to draw but my mind can get upset over a single question then I end up trying to answer that one question, it’s like a good kind of pain the pain of not knowing makes me want to solve it even more. I just turned 17, your videos have by far helped me identify many patterns especially with your talks on the art engine and the proper use and collection of reference (that video triggered a massive eureka moment) i like to compare myself that is the goal and standard I set for myself especially art station that’s my standard. I don’t know if this is just me but I see patterns when I’m actively seeking to solve a certain problem (if that makes sense). In a little under 4 months few months ago I was watching how Kim Jung gi would explain his concept of understanding perspective he said that he sees grid, at first I thought that was nonsense but then after further deliberation I realized that he was just describing intuitive perspective and after going out and trying to see real life perspective from his point of view I came up with a phrase that would forever change my structure drawing. “If it’s above the horizon line it looks like it’s curving up, vice versa. Today I now know why shapes and their design are so important in art. Shapes create flow, good shapes keep your eyes moving, this is everywhere it’s used from composition to a good character design. Structure drawing in this case form drawing I realized is about your spatial reasoning the reason why drawing through forms is so important is because it helps you visualize how something is out together and that combined with with knowledge of the imaginative grid helps me make good structured drawings. Colors for me was all just about relativity a warm bright color is only that because of the existence of dark shadow color, according to bob ross, you need to paint darkness in order to show the light, everyday I strive to get better in art I am fascinated by the cultures and world around me I would go to videos research and collect some reference to represent functionality. My knowledge from society and culture along with functional things I learn serve as inspiration for my designs they’re things that inspire my designs help build the world and story around it. Anyways I really appreciate your videos man here’s hoping to a great 2024. I feel like my childhood is slowly coming to an end as I just turned 17 not looking forward to legal adulthood😢.
This was incredibly helpful. I started out on an art career without a plan other than I knew I wanted to make art and get paid for it and I have been on this meandering path where I think I have lost myself. This was insightful and gives me a lot to think about. I've been working on picture book biographies, but my love has always been fantasy and I think I need to lean into that this year and let myself go back and make weird art like I used to.
In the past I enjoyed thinking: past to present, future, present to future.
That is:
Where was I compared to now?
Where do I want to be?
How will I get there?
That used to be a weekly reflection of mine. It was fun.
i love your videos
Great episode as always Tim.
I made a new year resolution in 2020 to draw everyday hoping to become a concept artist. So far that goal is still intact. However 5 months ago I shifted my focus to comics instead.
So far I'm enjoying this much more than doing concept art. While I'm really not sure what the future is holding for me I made a new goal to not have the option to give up until I've drawn at least 300 pages.